Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for The Righteous Gemstones Season 3 Episode 1.
Season 3 of The Righteous Gemstones kicked off with a bang in the premiere episode entitled, “For I Know the Plans I Have For You”.
We are immediately reintroduced to the Gemstone family as they are enjoying a monster truck rally that Eli (John Goodman) has sponsored with church funds.
It’s a flashback scene from about 23 years ago as Jesse (Danny McBride), Judy (Eli Patterson), and Kelvin (Adam DeVine) are kids and Eli’s wife Aimee-Leigh Gemstone (Jennifer Nettles) is still alive.
In the opening sequence, we are also met with a new character who appears at the rally.
She is a haggard, large woman who starts chasing an unsuspecting Aimee-Leigh through the crowd with a hatchet scolding her for being a charlatan and a phony.
She ends up getting hit by a car just before she can strike Aimee…
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