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Kelvin Makes a Vast Play in His Love Life in 'The Righteous Gemstones' — Is He Gay?
Spoiler alert! This article contains spoilers for Season 3, Episodes 8 and 9 of The Righteous Gemstoneson HBO.
Revelations are a-coming in the final two episodes of The Righteous Gemstones Season 3. The well-liked HBO series follows the eponymous Gemstone family of megachurch pastors who navigate the trials and tribulations of their glamorous form of Christian worship and the controversy seeded within.
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Though the church was originally run by widowed pastor Eli Gemstone (John Goodman), Season 3 sees Eli retire and church ownership and operations inherited by his three crude mature person children Jesse (Danny McBride), Judy (Edi Patterson), and Kelvin (Adam DeVine). As the three of them struggle to behave like a family and inhabit up to their family's legacy, they also contend with issues in their personal lives. When it comes to Kelvin, he comes to a major turning point in his love animation. Is he gay?
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Is Kelvin Gay in 'The Righteous Gemstones'? Season 3 tells all.
As the youngest
Adam Devine of ‘The Righteous Gemstones’ on Kelvin’s Big Moment and Doing His Have 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 Resentment 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 proximate 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 vigilante, sex-negative prudes. Finally, he ended Season 3 by embracing his tru
'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 shy away from the harm 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 water down the corrupt essence of evangelicalism or the many contradictions involved in a streamlined, for profit 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 result ways to put their hands on one another – workouts, massages, and general masculine grapples. It’s a strange dynamic, as Kelvin has the money and the spiritual power in the relationship, while Keefe considers Kelvin his savior, but th Adam Devine in The Righteous Gemstones (Photo: Jake Giles Netter/HBO) Finally, the most romantic affair on The Righteous Gemstones gets its moment in the spotlight. Among all the Gemstone family couples, Kelvin (Adam Devine) and Keefe (Tony Cavalero) hold 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 engage 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 hardly even a plot point in the episode. Kelvin just decides now is the hour and kisses Keefe out in
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