What happens when faith becomes a business? That's the question at the center of HBO's The Righteous Gemstones and it's a question this episode answers in depth.

On this episode of Bits n Scripts, we break down one of the most underrated comedy series of the last decade. The Righteous Gemstones ran four seasons on HBO from 2019 to 2025 and used the world of megachurch televangelism to expose something very real: the gap between what organized religion is supposed to be and what it becomes when wealth, ego, and power get into the room.

We cover the Gemstone family compound where each family member lives in a separate mansion funded entirely by their congregation and connect it directly to real-life figures like Kenneth Copeland, whose net worth exceeds seven hundred million dollars and who famously said commercial flights are  ...