“The Righteous Gemstones” ended its four-season run with an appropriately joyous Gemstone clan celebrating the marriage of Kelvin and Keefe (finally!), and a coda in which patriarch Eli finally sloughs off the burden of grief — and every member of the family shows just how much they’ve evolved since we first met them.
What Danny McBride’s satiric take on a religious empire has always done with astonishing deftness is balance incredibly vulgar comic situations and dialogue with deeply felt emotions, which kept the show from collapsing into the shallows of dumb humor. And it kept the characters grounded.
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