Danny McBride on The Righteous Gemstones' Season 1 finale: "I don’t just want to be teased all the time to keep tuning in"

Entertainment Weekly

"I think it just goes into what I look for when I watch TV," McBride says of avoiding a cliffhanger in last night's season finale. "I don’t just want to be teased all the time to keep tuning in; I like to see things have a completion. That is something we did with Vice Principals and shooting those two seasons back-to-back. When there’s so many things competing for our attention, I feel like I can invest in a story that you know will be seen to completion. And so that is how our plan is for these seasons. Obviously, you continue the Gemstone story, but I like the idea of each of these seasons standing alone as their own work and story, so that you’re not always baiting the audience with, 'What next?' There is some level of giving people closure, and then starting again."

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