‘The Righteous Gemstones’ Star Edi Patterson Says Goodbye to Judy Gemstone: ‘I Always Feel Like She Is Just Doing Her Best’

Spoilers ahead for “The Righteous Gemstones” Season 4, Episode 9
Heading into the writers room for the fourth season of “The Righteous Gemstones,” series star, writer and producer Edi Patterson didn’t know this season was going to be the last for the HBO comedy. No one did.
“Even though I’m in on the writing, it was never a definite thing until after we finished the season. We started to get a feeling that maybe it was time to end the story,” Patterson told TheWrap.
For fans of the HBO comedy, the Gemstone family may seem like a ridiculous crop of people. They constantly scheme and lie, stealing money from their family’s megachurch and spending millions on harebrained schemes. They have some of the most vulgar mouths in TV history. One of Patterson’s favorite Judy lines happened in Season 1 after Judy tells her brother, “I’m gonna move to Malibu beach,...
Heading into the writers room for the fourth season of “The Righteous Gemstones,” series star, writer and producer Edi Patterson didn’t know this season was going to be the last for the HBO comedy. No one did.
“Even though I’m in on the writing, it was never a definite thing until after we finished the season. We started to get a feeling that maybe it was time to end the story,” Patterson told TheWrap.
For fans of the HBO comedy, the Gemstone family may seem like a ridiculous crop of people. They constantly scheme and lie, stealing money from their family’s megachurch and spending millions on harebrained schemes. They have some of the most vulgar mouths in TV history. One of Patterson’s favorite Judy lines happened in Season 1 after Judy tells her brother, “I’m gonna move to Malibu beach,...
- 5/7/2025
- by Kayla Cobb
- The Wrap
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