HBO's Succession - Season 2 and Beyond

I dunno I got the sense Logan was sincere about Shiv at first and then promptly regretted it, it was less a matter of ideology and more down to her impatience, reluctance to do the management training course and general bad judgement.

He's going to end up leaving everything to Greg.

otm

He's going to end up leaving everything to Greg.

*Gregory

Greg the Egg.

gregory the eggory*

Intrigued by what was going on with Marcia in that last episode though.

xpost YES.

Episode 5 is a masterpiece.

My money's on Greg(ory) as well. I'd like a Greg only bottle episode.

the entire cringe-worthy panel discussion with the siblings tripping over each other was exactly what the family and we, the viewers, deserved

we hear for you!

no no no
we HERE for you
loved the various people around greg(ory) cracking up at that

you doing the old cocaine?

the relationship between mole woman and rock star has become one of the many (highlights) of this show
"i have thoughts, but go on"

https://www.vulture.com/2019/09/succession-season-2-cherry-jones-interview.html

Because it’s Succession, when I read the script I thought, “There is no one in this episode who is noble.”

Logan practically chasing down the car was the most pathetic moment showing that he's a big old weak narcissist under all that projected self-confidence and braggadocio

Season 1 felt way too caricatured for me, with characters not really going beyond their tics — Roman will approach a buffet, take a bite of something and put the rest back, and so on; Greg will raise the last word of every sentence. Costumes were fantastic, though.

But now season 2 (just watched it all up to now this weekend), and it’s a much better show. The characters are getting shaken out of their easy mannerisms, and just in general it feels a little more credible. And putting the Roys against the old-school Ivy League elite is really satisfying.

Ugh, and just after writing that, this episode goes back to Season 1 shallowness, taking away Holly Hunter character’s nuances and sophistication and the whole thing has a kind of BFA-LaBute-protege approach to sex and unoriginal swearing.

counterpoint: i really enjoy seeing Holly Hunter on television doing anything

Hard to see her have to deliver lines like “Kendall now has a bigger diaper to shit in” after a few episodes that work hard to credibly establish her tight-lipped New England manner...

I get the feeling that the character is purposefully chameleon-like and it was the Pierces who were tight-lipped New Englanders

and that she's playing for whoever is paying the bill? that was my takeaway as well. Unless the Pierce's are playing the tune and this is a long con...

upon reflection though I would agree this was not a strongly written episode.

ROY
CUNT

good to see 'cunt as a term of endearment' is now part of scotland's international brand

last two have been a bit bumpy and not as finely wrought tbh; hoping the ship rights itself tonight.

lol we’re really into “uhh pedo guy was a fun insult in south africa when I was a kid” territory here with uncle mo

and this situation with roman is somehow going... worse!

“Rights the ship”??? This is clearly another classic season plz

yes - it bangs

You can’t make a Tomelette without breaking a few Gregs.

fantastic episode last night. though odd that none of the roy children fucked anything up for once.

i guess tom and greg made up for that.

the hardest i've ever laughed at this show is when tom tried to say he'd never met greg and that cut to shiv losing her mind.

tom is fuuuuuuuuuuuuucked

they said they need a blood sacrifice, but really it's gonna be more like a sacrifice-by-marriage

good thing he signed that pre-nup, right

otm about the tom denying knowing greg scene, I was cackling

you can't make a tomlette without breaking some gregs

do you think Tom started out like Greg and was crafted into an oblivious but malignant exec by some similar svengali figure?

Tom has been working towards this his entire adult life and he's fucked.

I like how Team Roman being held hostage at gunpoint was almost the light relief from the general sense of clammy dread.

Actually it might be Kendall who's fucked and Logan has enough leverage to make him take the fall.

Have we done this yet?

👀 King @PUSHA_T pic.twitter.com/MRubMz0IJ5

— Nicholas Britell (@NicholasBritell) October 7, 2019

*snore*

not trying to start a feud or anything but I’m a little annoyed @HBO & Nicholas Britell asked Pusha T to write lyrics to the Succession theme, since they asked me to first and turned my version down https://t.co/MUywcSIYzq pic.twitter.com/q8OLy52krZ

— demi adejuyigbe (@electrolemon) October 9, 2019

demi for president

omg. i'm an episode behind; glad to hear there seems to be a general consensus the last one was a winner.

I remade the theme song to #Succession in #MarioPaint.@Succession_HBO @HBO @NintendoAmerica pic.twitter.com/53yNTfzeX7

— ℝ𝕖𝕧. 𝔸𝕕𝕒𝕞 ℂ𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕠 (@adamcatino) October 3, 2019

Perfecto landing

yup

Succession but everyone wants some of Logan's M&Ms pic.twitter.com/pTxIyXWen4

— my ass is haunted (@Buncahn) October 13, 2019

two amazing smaller moments:

greg complaining about his rosé
roman trying to get shiv and kendall to be serious and them briefly considering it before mocking him with baby voices

i love the brief moments on this show when sibling affection peeks out from behind the verbal animosity. even a couple of episodes back, i realized the connor actually laughed out out at some of roman's cracks instead of the usual exasperated stone face he gets from everyone else.