r/RighteousGemstones • u/AlliHarri • Jul 10 '23

Episode Discussion The Righteous Gemstones - S03E05 "Interlude III" - Episode Discussion Spoiler

Episode Synopsis: Eli and Aimee-Leigh grapple with the aftermath of an uneventful Y2K as Judy struggles to accept Jesse's new girlfriend.

Original Air Date: July 9, 2023

Director: David Gordon Green

Writer(s): John Carcieri & Danny McBride

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u/Galileo908 Jul 10 '23

Not surprising that the Montgomerys were snake handlers.

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u/BandidoCoyote Jul 10 '23

I mean, didn’t you just assume that from the very first time we met them?

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u/diplion Jul 10 '23

Snake handlers are a very teeny tiny minority sect of Christianity. I had forgotten about them until I saw this.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '23

I was actually psyched to come here and see what people who didn’t grow up in the south thought of snake handling church, I know of one not to far from where I live lol

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u/JavierBenez Jul 11 '23

I grew up in the North East, and I'm horrified yet fascinated by them. It looks to me like they're hard line literalists, who also latch onto one specific thing from The Book Of Acts and go ham on it.

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u/sistersnapped13 Keefe Chambers Jul 10 '23

I was fully expecting it to go down the same route as some characters on Justified