Appropriately for the series’ final season ... And it is a game at first for Elijah Gemstone, played by Cooper under a thick slick of grime and gigantic pork-chop sideburns.

Danny McBride takes a big swing with the Season 4 premiere of The Righteous Gemstones, providing an origin story episode starring Bradley Cooper.

Everybody’s back to see this consistently hilarious series to its conclusion ... John Goodman as family patriarch Elijah Gemstone, and even the god Walton Goggins as ol’ Baby Billy.

Series creator and star Danny McBride ... discovers the truth about Elijah Gemstone. Elijah offers a moving brief sermon as ...

an arrangement that sounds more than fair enough for him to fake his way through prayers and Sunday sermons. One of the funniest aspects of this episode is that Elijah is a profoundly lazy grifter ...