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3'''Only spoilers from the current season will be marked.'''
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6[[foldercontrol]]
7
8!!The Gemstone Empire
9
10[[folder:Martin]]
11!!Martin Imari
12->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/GregoryAlanWilliams
13
14[[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/521318_1.jpg]]
15 [[caption-width-right:210:''"I answer to your Daddy."'']]
16
17A top employee for the Gemstones; Eli's closest confidante and right-hand man who cleans up a lot of Gemstone-related messes.
18----
19* AffablyEvil: Much, much more affable than evil, although he’s still willing to do Eli’s dirty work with no questions asked.
20* TheConsigliere: To Eli, to whom he's been a friend, confidante and fixer for decades.
21* HappilyMarried
22* HeterosexualLifePartners: He and Eli are very close.
23* HonestAdvisor: To Eli throughout the series. He also becomes one to the three kids in Season 3, when he serves as a mediator after Eli’s semi-retirement.
24* HonoraryUncle: Martin and his family aren't related to the Gemstones but they're still close enough to be invited to their after-church family lunches and Jesse, Judy and Kelvin certainly treat him more like a family member than their Daddy's employee. At the end of Season 3, he’s invited to the Gemstones’ family reunion and even gets his turn to drive The Redeemer.
25* HyperCompetentSidekick: To Eli, and to Jesse while Eli is incapacitated.
26* NiceGuy: Although he’s willing to get involved with the church’s dirty laundry, he’s also a PunchClockVillain who treats everyone with kindness. This is most on display when he handles [[spoiler: Judy being blackmailed over her affair.]] He gives Jesse and Kelvin the wrong date so they won’t be there when the papers are signed, and he comforts Judy in her despair.
27* PetTheDog: Offers an incredibly upset Judy a reprieve from her brothers and a comforting hug [[spoiler: after Kristy blackmails the church over her affair.]]
28* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Serves as this in season 3, [[spoiler: after Eli retires and the kids rely on him for advice in running the church.]]
29* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Delivers one to the Gemstone children in season 2 after Eli has been hospitalized.
30* StartOfDarkness: Helping Eli dispose of [[spoiler: Glendon Sr.'s]] corpse marks the point where he grew from a simple accountant to Eli's right-hand man.
31* TheUnfettered: He never shows himself as remotely bothered by the things Eli asks him to do, up to and including arranged assassinations.
32* WhatTheHellHero: Appalled at the idea of [[spoiler: not ransoming Jesse, Judy and Kelvin when they're abducted by Peter.]]
33[[/folder]]
34
35[[folder:Keefe]]
36!!Keefe Chambers
37->'''Portrayed By:''' Tony Cavalero
38
39[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/keefe_chambers.png]]
40 [[caption-width-right:350:''"I know not everybody wanted me here."'']]
41
42Kelvin's best friend, a former Satanist who turned his life around to become Kelvin's assistant youth pastor.
43----
44
45* AmbiguouslyBi: Season 1 implies he was somewhat sexually indiscriminate, and WordOfGod from Tony Cavalero says he feels like Keefe has "done everything under the sun" sexually. He's [[spoiler: romantically involved with Kelvin as of season 3, so while he's canonically interested in men, his actual sexuality remains ambiguous.]]
46* BreakTheCutie: Season 3 puts Keefe through the wringer. [[spoiler: Church parents find out about the "Smut Busters" initiative and blame Keefe, and Kelvin fails to solve the issue, which leads to Jesse and Judy pushing Kelvin to transfer him to a different department. Rather than take the new job, he quits and moves out. Kelvin is disparaging about his new job and Taryn takes his place in the youth group, driving Kelvin and Keefe into a serious fight. Then Kelvin gets abducted.]]
47* CrazyJealousGuy: He shows shades of this after [[spoiler: Taryn takes over his job, equating it with he and Kelvin's relationship for no reason.]]
48* CreepyGood: Keefe tends to scare people around the church due to his intense and eccentric demeanor, along with his gothic fashion sense and still-present Satanist tattoos. However, he is incredibly loyal to Kelvin and the church, seems to have become a genuine Christian, and is a much kinder person than any of the Gemstones.
49* CloudCuckoolander: He’s quite the odd duck, which is hinted to be partially due to heavy drug use before he met Kelvin.
50* ClubKid: Used to be one, until he met Kelvin and converted to Christianity. He goes back once, but Kelvin saves him and brings him home.
51* DarkAndTroubledPast: He was a Satanist before Kelvin supposedly "saved" him. He also used to dance naked as a teenager at weird warehouse goth raves at Club Sinister and clearly had some issues with drug use.
52* DarkIsNotEvil: Despite his all-black clothing and Satanic tattoos, Keefe is one of the more genuinely kind (albeit weird) people in the Gemstone orbit.
53* TheDitz: Or as Jesse calls him "Old Slow Eyes."
54* ExtremeDoormat: Kelvin can pretty much get away with anything and Keefe won't complain. This gets subverted in season 3, when Keefe [[spoiler: leaves Kelvin over scandals in the church. He comes right back when Kelvin gets kidnapped, though.]]
55* {{Goth}}: He's no longer a Satanist, but he still dresses distinctly Goth outside of work.
56* GreenEyedMonster: [[spoiler: Over Taryn taking his place in youth ministry, down to asking if she and Kelvin had "physical connections."]]
57* IOweYouMyLife: Considers Kelvin to be his savior for showing him the light of religion in his darkest hour.
58* JerkassToOne: He's normally at least polite to everybody he speaks to, even when he's upset, but is very rude to Taryn, especially when he visits the church to drop off a chair he made for Kelvin.
59* ManChild: While he shows a bit more sense than Kelvin in season 2 (understanding when they need to call a medic for an injured man, or that they need permission slips to take teenagers on Biblical field trips) he is still very emotionally stunted.
60* MrFanservice: Keefe favors mesh or lace shirts and in season 3, he's shown to be in great shape, with a scene of him fire-dancing just serving to show it off.
61* NiceGuy: As strange as he is, he’s unflinchingly kind and polite (unless you’re Taryn).
62* RelationshipUpgrade: [[spoiler: With Kelvin.]]
63* RunningGag: The Gemstones mispronouncing his name. He’s been Chief, Quiche, Heath, even Queef.
64* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler: Quitting the church might have been for Kelvin's benefit, in Keefe's mind, but cartwheeling out of an argument with Kelvin qualifies.]]
65* UndyingLoyalty: Will follow Kelvin to the ends of the earth, and believes him to be destined for greatness.
66* WalkingShirtlessScene: If Keefe is wearing a shirt, there's a good chance it is somehow see-through.
67[[/folder]]
68
69
70[[folder:Rev. Seasons]]
71!!Rev. John Wesley Seasons
72->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/DermotMulroney
73
74The pastor of a smaller congregation competing with the Gemstones.
75----
76* GoodIsNotSoft: Seasons is the genuine man of God that the Gemstones claim to be, but come into his home with violence on your mind and he will ''not'' turn the other cheek. He'll shoot you down.
77* HeroAntagonist: He's the pastor of a small church standing up to a rich, scandal-ridden, hypocritical family of televangelists. Eventually they come to an agreement and he begins working with them.
78* MeaningfulName: The preacher John Wesley was averse to what he saw as opulence in the Church of England. Likewise, John Wesley Seasons (while not exactly an ascetic) is opposed to the Gemstones' extravagant displays of wealth in a church environment.
79* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: John Wesley was an 18th century evangelist whose teachings originated Methodism as well as other Christian denominations. This hints that Seasons comes from a Wesleyan background of some sort, despite being a Baptist pastor himself.
80* NonIndicativeName: In regards to his denomination, not role in the story (see MeaningfulName above); one would expect an American Pastor named after John Wesley to be either Methodist, or involved in one of the branch-offs like the Holiness movement. However, Seasons pastors a Baptist church. (Though his parents may have been Wesleyan)
81[[/folder]]
82
83[[folder:Taryn]]
84!!Taryn
85->'''Portrayed By:''' Maggie Winters
86
87[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vlcsnap_2023_07_20_18h02m18s370.png]]
88 [[caption-width-right:350:''"My name is Taryn and I look forward to sharin' all my love with y'all."'']]
89
90An employee who helps with youth group.
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92
93* BigFun: A heavyset woman who loves having fun as much as (if not more than) the youth group kids.
94* NiceGirl: Kind and agreeable to a fault.
95* OnlySaneMan: Reacts the way a normal person would to Kelvin and Keefe's bizarre ManChild fighting.
96* ReplacementGoldfish: Keefe accuses Kelvin of using her as one for him, after he catches them having a friendly conversation about tumbling and getting kids into exercising.
97* RomanticFalseLead: She and Kelvin aren't interested in each other romantically, but [[NoSocialSkills Keefe]] ''perceives'' the three of them as in a LoveTriangle.
98* SitcomArchnemesis: Keefe views her this way. She seems to like him just fine.
99* SuperiorSuccessor: She's a lot better at connecting with the kids of the church than Keefe.
100
101[[/folder]]
102
103
104!!!Gemstone Congregants
105[[folder:Jesse's Entourage]]
106!!Chad, Levi, Matthew, Gregory
107->'''Portrayed By:''' James [=DuMont=] (Chad), Jody Hill (Levi), Troy Anthony Hogan (Matthew), J. [=LaRose=] (Gregory)
108
109[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/74f8e3b2_cb8b_44c6_8926_92d1ac4e66d4.jpg]]
110 [[caption-width-right:350:''"ATL was dirty dirty for suresy."'']]
111
112Jesse's entourage of friends who attend the church with their families.
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114
115* AmbiguouslyGay: Levi is the most handsome, well-groomed of Jesse's friends, and he attends couple's therapy with his mother and expresses concern about being able to adopt despite being unmarried. Jesse mentions having "homosexual" friends in season 1.
116* ButtMonkey: Their sole purpose seems to be to take verbal or physical abuse on behalf of, or from, Jesse. Especially Chad.
117* CloudCuckoolander: The very odd Gregory, who has coins made to commemorate the fact that they are being blackmailed and their lives could disintegrate at any moment.
118-->'''Jesse:''' "We did it"? You made coins with our names on it that says "We did it"? And we're trying to put what happened behind us! You can't be making fucking souvenirs about it!
119* HenPeckedHusband: Chad, Gregory and Michael.
120* HumiliationConga: All of them, but Chad in particular has to deal with a ''lot'', much of it arguably deserved.
121** He has his infidelity, drug use and penis exposed on-camera as part of blackmail footage;
122** He's bullied by Jesse into attacking Johnny Seasons, which results in him getting shot in the stomach;
123** His dirty deeds are discovered by his wife and he's subsequently chastised by Jesse for getting them all in trouble.
124** In Season 2, he attends a large church group centered on second chances and reconciliation. His wife also attends, but only to show off her new boyfriend.
125* LongHairedPrettyBoy: Levi, according to Judy.
126* NiceGuy: Levi is rarely anything other than placid and pleasant.
127* OutOfFocus: Jesse and Amber want cooler friends, so they don't hang out with these guys as much in season 2.
128* StupidCrooks: They're ''all'' remarkably stupid, hence why Jesse is their leader.
129** The plot kicks off because they were caught on camera doing drugs and hiring prostitutes.
130** Jesse accuses Pastor Seasons of being the blackmailer and suggests they break into his house to assault him. Not only is Seasons the wrong guy but the plot ends with Chad getting shot.
131** To top it all off, Gregory makes ''commemorative coins'' about their crimes.
132* ThrowTheDogABone: Chad finally gets a moment of happiness when, in the Season 2 finale, his wife agrees to give their marriage a second chance.
133[[/folder]]
134
135[[folder:Mandy]]
136!!Mandy
137->'''Portrayed By:''' Mary Hollis Inboden
138
139Chad's wife and a member of Amber's church posse.
140
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142
143* CassandraTruth: She was right about the guys being up to something, but her friends refused to listen.
144* OutOfFocus: In Season 2, Jesse and Amber's desire to have cooler friends puts her and Jesse's posse on the backburner.
145* UglyGuyHotWife: Definitely a sight prettier than Chad.
146[[/folder]]
147
148[[folder:The Nancy Family]]
149!!Dale, Gaye and Dot Nancy
150
151A wealthy family that attends the Gemstone church and owns a fast food chicken restaurant, Fancy Nancy's.
152
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154* DeadpanSnarker: Dot takes several sarcastic jabs at Kelvin.
155* {{Expy}}: Fancy Nancy's is one for fried chicken places like Mrs. Wienner's or Bojangles, but the family itself is one for The Cathy family of Chick-Fil-A fame.
156[[/folder]]
157
158[[folder:Dusty Daniels]]
159!!Dusty Daniels
160->'''Portrayed By''' Creator/SheaWhigham
161[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_righteous_gemstones_shea_whigham_credit_jake_giles_netter_hbo_2.png]]
162 [[caption-width-right:350:''"See, that's the problem. I don't feel the love."'']]
163An aged race car driver who attends the Gemstone church.
164
165----
166* AmbiguouslyBi: He's a bachelor well into his old age, and the only mention of his sexuality is [[spoiler: Baby Billy's story about the two of them in a wild orgy with lots of women, where they may or may not have "touched dicks".]]
167* {{Catchphrase}}: "Whoowhee, suckers!"
168* {{Expy}}: Shea Whigham calls him an amalgamation of several old-school NASCAR drivers such as Dale Earnhardt.
169* GrumpyOldMan
170* IOweYouMyLife: [[spoiler: Jesse saving him during the locust attack wins him back to the Gemstones' church, and he leaves his entire fortune to them when he passes.]]
171* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler: Makes it out of the Bible Bonkers locust attack unscathed with Jesse’s help, but dies some time after of unspecified causes.]]
172* MeaningfulFuneral: [[spoiler: Dusty’s buried in his racecar wearing his full NASCAR uniform, while Eli leads the congregation in saying his “whoowee, sucker” catchphrase one last time.]]
173* RememberTheNewGuy: He's stated in his debut episode to be a long-time congregant whose tithes and donations make up a significant part of the church budget. Despite this, we never see him before the siblings meet him on the track.
174[[/folder]]
175
176!Civilians
177
178[[folder:Block]]
179!!Thaniel Block
180->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JasonSchwartzman
181
182[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/righteous_gemstones_jason_schwartzman.jpg]]
183 [[caption-width-right:350:''"I want the Gemstones."'']]
184
185An investigative reporter exposing hypocritical evangelists with his sights set on the Gemstones.
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187* AccidentalSuicide: [[OnceMoreWithClarity The Season 2 finale reveals he killed himself by firing wildly at Lyle]] and hitting a cast iron skillet, causing the bullet to ricochet into his head.
188* AssholeVictim: As it turns out, he's a ''dick'' who only cares about his own ambition and is willing to cross all kinds of ethical lines to get what he wants.
189* DeathByIrony: He's shown to be dismissive and contemptuous of the South and southerners. He's killed when a bullet hits a cast-iron skillet, a southern cooking staple.
190* DecoyAntagonist: Initially seems like he's going to be the main threat of season 2, before being abruptly killed off, with the mystery around his death being the actual plot driver.
191* HeroAntagonist: Played with. At first, he seems to be a slightly prickly guy who is just doing his job and earnestly cares about exposing hypocrisy, however after his death it's revealed that he's a deeply unethical journalist who cares more about his own career than doing anything good for anyone else.
192* HollywoodAtheist: A total dick about religion for no reason.
193* {{Jerkass}}: He's just kind of an asshole who looks down on other people, as shown when he acts like a dick toward his friendly neighbor.
194[[/folder]]
195
196[[folder:Glendon]]
197!!Glendon Marsh Sr.
198->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/WayneDuvall
199
200[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/i_speak_in_the_tongues_of_men_and_angels_3.jpg]]
201 [[caption-width-right:350:''"You and me is the same."'']]
202
203A wrestling promoter and mobster from Memphis who Eli worked for when he was a young man.
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205* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler: Possibly. Roy always hated Glendon, but he is suffering from severe dementia around the time he kills him, and the show leaves it ambiguous as to how intentional the killing really was.]]
206* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Trying to back out of a deal with him at the last minute is a good way for him to pull a gun out and start blasting.
207* BeardOfEvil: He has a little goatee, which fits his image as a corrupting, Satan-like figure.
208* TheCorrupter: Glendon lured a young Eli into becoming muscle for his criminal operations. When the Gemstones have financial trouble, he tries to insert himself into the Gemstone empire, hoping to use it to launder his ill-gotten gains.
209* DealWithTheDevil: He's the devil in any deal that's made. He tries this with Eli, offering to solve his financial difficulties in return for getting a stranglehold on the Gemstone empire.
210* TheDon: He's no Vito Corleone, but he ''is'' a shady criminal with his fingers in many illegal pies, and doesn't seem to answer to anyone.
211* EvenEvilHasStandards: Racism doesn't seem to be one of his many flaws; he smacks his son and gives him an apparently sincere rebuke when Junior heckles black protestors fighting Jim Crow, expressing sympathy for them wanting to get a "piece of the pie."
212* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Played with. In the season 2 finale, after the one month time skip Junior hangs up a photo of everybody in the 1960s in his wrestling gym, saying he didn't consider his father a good man, but he did start the place and deserves some respect for that.
213* {{Expy}}: He's an expy of every single one of the pre-WWF expansion territory promoters. He does seem to share some traits with Bill Watts and Fritz Von Erich in particular, though.
214* FauxAffablyEvil: Glendon is a gregarious, charismatic man who's quick with a compliment or a joke, but genial as he might appear he's still a ruthless gangster who'll turn on you the moment things don't go his way.
215* MirrorCharacter: He and Roy Gemstone are the opposing forces that influenced Eli growing up, [[spoiler: making it all the more appropriate that he meets his death at Roy's hand.]]
216[[/folder]]
217
218[[folder:Junior]]
219!!Glendon Marsh Jr.
220->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/EricRoberts (adult), Tommy Nelson (teen)
221
222[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/roberts.jpg]]
223 [[caption-width-right:350:''"I set 'em up and you knock 'em down."'']]
224[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see young Junior]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vlcsnap_2023_06_30_11h47m27s773.png[[/labelnote]]]]
225
226A mysterious, avuncular figure from Eli's past who works in the world of professional wrestling.
227----
228* AffablyEvil: He might be incredibly sketchy, but he's also infectiously jovial.
229* GoodAllAlong: "Good" might be stretching it since he's still a shady criminal, but as it turns out he sincerely means no harm toward the Gemstones, forgives Eli for his involvement in Glendon Senior's death and wishes to be his friend, having only reappeared because Thaniel Block came sniffing around asking questions.
230* InadequateInheritor: His father was a fairly powerful criminal, but the old man seemed to hold Junior in contempt. Averted: it turns out that his father completely failed to change with the times, whereas Junior wanted to invest in the new, WWE-esque style of wrestling which has paid off in the present day.
231* LaughablyEvil: Junior very clearly has a dangerous edge to him that makes him a somewhat unnerving presence, but he's also quick-witted and gloriously hammy.
232* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Junior is ''very'' touchy-feely with Eli.
233* PsychopathicManchild: He acts very much the same in the present day as he did when he was barely out of his teens, being a reckless loudmouth who gives little thought to the consequences of his actions.
234* RedHerring: He's a character from Eli's shady past, played by an actor who is chronically typecast as the villain, and his appearance coincides with the Thaniel Block murder mystery and the Cycle Ninjas' assassination attempts. Eventually it turns out he has nothing to do with any of it.
235[[/folder]]
236
237[[folder:The Barnes Family]]
238!!Mrs. Barnes, Ken, & KJ Barnes
239->'''Portrayed By:''' Harley Jane Kozak, Jim Turner and Lily Sullivan
240[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vlcsnap_2023_06_30_12h00m57s757.png]]
241 [[caption-width-right:350:'''Judy:''' ''They're from Asheville, Daddy, they hate God.'']]
242BJ's mother, stepfather and younger sister.
243
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245
246* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: KJ teases BJ relentlessly. Usually it's in good humor but sometimes it seems like she does go too far, such as making fun of BJ's outfit at his baptism when he was earnestly excited about it.
247* HollywoodAtheist: KJ particularly, who is a bit dismissive and cold towards religion.
248-->'''Ms. Barnes:''' We're a secular people.
249[[/folder]]
250
251[[folder:Lyle's posse]]
252!! Doug, Chet & Shane
253-> '''Portrayed By:''' Jeff Fradley, Chad Mountain and Michael Smallwood
254
255Lyle Lissons' bumbling henchmen.
256----
257
258* AssholeVictim: It's hard to feel too bad when Lyle burns two of them to death when they were there to murder a journalist.
259* MirrorCharacter: They are this to Chad, Levi, Gregory and Michael, just like Lyle is one to Jesse. Somehow, they're even more incompetent as crooks, and definitely worse people.
260* PosthumousCharacter: It turns out they're the dead bodies Kelvin stumbles upon at Block's cabin.
261* StealingFromTheTill
262* StupidCrooks
263* TooDumbToLive: Brought multiple grenades to kill ''one'' guy.
264* WeHardlyKnewYe: They're dead by the second episode but [[OnceMoreWithClarity not introduced until the ninth]], and only briefly.
265[[/folder]]
266
267
268[[folder:Cape & Pistol]]
269!! The Cape & Pistol Society
270
271A secret society of evangelical pastors that Eli Gemstone is apart of.
272
273----
274* BrotherhoodOfFunnyHats: They're a realistic portrayal of a {{Freemason}}-like secret society as a social club.
275* GloveSlap: A ritualized punishment for minor infractions. The members stand at attention on either side of an aisle. A masked man walks down the aisle, puts on an embroidered white glove, and slaps the offender twice. There's also a Black Slap for more serious offenses where the offender is naked.
276* GoshDangItToHeck: They have to talk this way while at the lodge, or else they get the White Slap.
277* SecretSocietyGroupPhoto: The group is introduced with a photo of several members in their trademark capes and flintlock pistols.
278
279[[/folder]]
280
281! Other
282
283[[folder:God]]
284
285The... well, {{God}} that the Gemstones worship; the deity of the Christian [[note]] and other Abrahamic [[/note]] religion.
286----
287
288* BoltOfDivineRetribution: Supposedly used one on Baby Billy and gave him visions.
289* GodIsGood: The actions attributed to Him end up helping the family become better people.
290* GoodIsNotSoft: Assuming the unexplained acts of nature ''are'' from a higher power, His methods of dealing with the Gemstones aren't exactly gentle, but they always walk away slightly better people.
291* JesusWasWayCool: Since the Gemstones are Trinitarian Christians, they believe God and Christ are one in the same. And Kelvin in particular loves to emphasis how cool Jesus is.
292* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: A lot of improbable things happen to the family in the series, that they interpret as divine intervention; Baby Billy being zapped by lightning, the [[spoiler: swarm of locusts attacking Baby Billy's Bible Bonkers]], etc. It's ultimately up to the viewer to decide.
293* PestController: [[spoiler: A terrifying swarm of locusts attack the church while they film Baby Billy's Bible Bonkers. This experience ends up leading to reconciliations and Peter's ultimate HeelFaceTurn. While the show leaves it up to the viewer to determine their origin, May-May is convinced it was God. This lines up with the plagues in the Literature/BookOfExodus, so she may be right.]]
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