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The Righteous Gemstones Gives Us the Queer Kiss We've Been Waiting For
Adam Devine in The Righteous Gemstones (Photo: Jake Giles Netter/HBO)
Finally, the most romantic bond on The Righteous Gemstones gets its moment in the spotlight. Among all the Gemstone family couples, Kelvin (Adam Devine) and Keefe (Tony Cavalero) include always been the two people who seemed to genuinely enjoy being around each other the most, with no hidden agenda. For years they’ve been the series’s will-they/won’t-they pairing, the biggest roadblock seemingly being Kelvin’s unwillingness to admit that he is in fact gay.
It’s no wonder why he wanted to keep it under wraps — Christianity has a long history of condemning homosexuality, and the Gemstones’ church was built around strong heterosexual family values. But those notions don’t come into act when Kelvin’s coming out moment finally happens in Season 3, Episode 8, “I Will Take You By the Hand and Keep You.” There’s no dramatic come to Jesus moment (literal or figurative) grappling with his sexuality, no tense family conversation; it’s
'The Righteous Gemstones' Just Gave Kelvin His Best Moment Yet
Editor's note: The below contains spoilers for The Righteous Gemstones Season 4.
The Righteous Gemstones doesn’t reserved away from the damage and controversy the titular family brings to their community. As lovable as we find the antics of the Gemstones — primarily the children of Eli (John Goodman) and the late Aimee-Leigh (Jennifer Nettles), Jesse (Danny McBride), Judy (Edi Patterson), and Kelvin (Adam Devine) — the show doesn't moisture down the corrupt character of evangelicalism or the many contradictions involved in a streamlined, for gain Christianity.
From the very first episode, however, Kelvin is queer-coded, primarily through his interactions with Keefe (Tony Cavalero), the latter of whom is introduced as Kelvin’s house-sitter, a former Satan worshiper, and a personal success story for Kelvin’s potential as a pastor. He and Keefe are inseparable, increasingly evidence ways to put their hands on one another – workouts, massages, and general masculine grapples. It’s a strange dynamic, as Kelvin has the
Adam Devine of &#;The Righteous Gemstones&#; on Kelvin&#;s Big Moment and Doing His Possess Stunts: &#;It Looked Like an Alien Was Trying to Escape My Body&#;
SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers for Season 4, Episode 7 of “The Righteous Gemstones,” “For Bitterness Is the Rage of a Man,” now streaming on Max.
As the youngest child of the namesake family on HBO’s “The Righteous Gemstones,” Adam Devine’s Kelvin Gemstone hasn’t always held the spotlight. But now that Danny McBride’s epic evangelical saga is coming to a seal after four seasons as the funniest (and only) religious family action-comedy on television, Kelvin has finally gotten his moment in the sun.
Kelvin spent the entirety of “The Righteous Gemstones” trying on different identities. First, he was the overgrown kid primary the Gemstone megachurch’s youth program. He then channeled his (barely) repressed desires into leading the God Squad, a homoerotic tribe of body builders, and started the Smut Busters, a gang of v
Are These Two Shows in a Queer Coupling Race?!
If it&#;s not evident from the last moment I wrote about the delightful vampire sitcom What We Execute in the Shadows, I&#;m generally looking out for what I colloquially refer to as Homosexual Stuff aka queer content. What can I say? When you&#;ve been given cis-het media as the default, it really builds an appetite for something recent. That&#;s not to say hetero romance is bad or anything; it&#;s fine! It&#;s just that you can throw a stone and hit shows and movies about that. Gay Stuff is rarer but getting less unique these days, which is a wonderful thing. In fact, I&#;m wondering if we&#;re in a particularly big moment for Same-sex attracted Stuff: two great and beloved shows might just be building to a queer coupling at the same time!
As I mentioned in the Shadows piece linked above, it looks, to my eyes, like long-suffering familiar Guillermo is being paired with his vampire master Nandor. Are my eyes wishful and eager for this? Sure, but I perceive the evidence is compelling between the season&#;s central conflict entity arranged around their relationship an