Hit SC based HBO Max series nabs its first Emmy Award. Here’s what to know
“The Righteous Gemstones,” a South Carolina-based television series, has taken home its first Emmy Award at the 77th annual ceremony, winning for Outstanding Stunt Coordination for a Comedy Programming.
The award honors the stunt work featured across the entire HBO Max series, which was largely filmed in Charleston and other Lowcountry locations, including the North Charleston Coliseum and Performing Arts Center, Citadel Mall and Beaufort County’s Hunting Island.
Other contenders in the competition for this award included Netflix’s “Cobra Kai,” Hulu’s “Only Murders In The Building,” Peacock’s “Poker Face,” and Paramount+’s “Tulsa King.”
The 2025 Emmy Awards were held on Sept. 14.
Other 2025 nominations
In total, “The Righteous Gemstones” received six nominations at the 2025 Emmy Awards, bringing its overall count to 10 nominations across its run — with previous nods in 2022 and 2024 for categories such as stunt coordination, stunt performance and costumes.
The other five nominations for 2025 included:
- Outstanding cinematography
- Outstanding music
- Outstanding sound editing for comedy
- Costumes
- Makeup
Season Four episodes “Prelude” and “You Hurled Me Into the Depths, Into the Very Heart of the Seas” were singled out for excellence in cinematography, music, costumes, and makeup.
About “The Righteous Gemstones”
“The Righteous Gemstones” is an HBO Max comedy-drama television series that follows a world-famous televangelist family in South Carolina with a long tradition of deviance, greed and dysfunction.
Created by Danny McBride, the fictional series stars John Goodman, Adam Devine, Edi Patterson, and Cassidy Freeman as members of the Southern televangelist dynasty.
Goodman portrays Eli Gemstone, the widowed patriarch and leader of the family’s sprawling religious empire, who struggles to mourn the loss of his wife.
The story follows his adult children — Jesse, Judy and Kelvin — as they navigate lives of wealth, immaturity, scandal, and internal power struggles. Despite their questionable behavior, the Gemstones maintain a massive global following and a multi-million-dollar ministry.
The show premiered in Aug. 2019 and concluded in May 2025 after four seasons and a total of 36 episodes.
