HBO's Succession - Season 2 and Beyond

idk what % of hbo watchers do it through some sort of max app now but it's gotta be more than live-watching on a cable feed

does it

i torrented it so i won't be in there to be fair

I feel it should be a bad show on paper ..

It's not on paper it's on television

"old bread" I think was the line that made me love this show.
(with the sourdough starter as the gift)

Right, we watched it through HBO Max and actually, by pure coincidence and luck on our end, started it about five minutes after it started airing anyway... but presumably that still doesn't get counted as live watch.

Likewise. We were actually refreshing the app, waiting for it to pop up.

i never watch anything at the time it airs anymore, I'm sure I'm not alone

I thought it started at 10 ET (I was in Michigan on Sunday night), so I rewatched the last episode of S2 at 9, and then watched the S3 premiere at 10, at which point I discovered that it had already been available for an hour.

turns out that 60% of viewers were watching on digital platforms - about 900,000, up from 300k for S2

still probably not enough of a turnaround for Max

it's popular enough that they rented helicopters, that means something

happy to see Peter Reigert pop up
…who now looks like…Bilbo Baggins lol

loved this ep - always down for Roy sibling time
their individual decision trees are like crazy red string diagrams. i love seeing all the distrust, jealousy, ambition & childhood/family archetypes all converge and be so blended that you cant fully tell what anyone’s true motivation is

roman doing kendall AND shiv impersonations was gold

and kendalls meltdown tantrums at the end
is amazing how completely he truly is always, inevitably charlie brown & his whole family are always either collectively or separately lucy with the football.

girls count double now

We flew back scheduled.

I love how they just keep creating buses for Connor to throw himself under.

Don't threaten me Gerri, I don't have time to jerk off

i feel like i know a lot of people that would like this show but they just don't watch it.

Stopped halfway through S1 episode 5 i think when Shiv’s husband guy asks Greg to go back to the apartment for him and do some nefarious shit

why on earth would u stop
keep going man!

the sibling round table in ken's daughter's bedroom felt like a real high point for the show. i love whenever all the siblings are in a room together.
"i'm like 98% sure those aren't poisoned"

Tonight's episode wasn't as strong as the first two for me, just as far as moment-to-moment credibility. Still, into it.

please buy me Kendall’s jacket it’s half off at $1,447.50 https://t.co/ljmjYmevP1

— choire (@Choire) November 1, 2021

Watching Kendall continually flame out is a little exhausting. But I liked the intimation that Roman of all of them actually kind of cares about the other ones. He's the only one with any real affection for all of them.

v disappointed in Kendall on this one. that letter was a gift if he'd swung instead of ducking.

I really liked this third episode, triggered kendoll, back in da house, shiv's political ambitions thwarted, Roman being between a rock and hard place, oh! Gerri, sidelined by the trapped big bull logan, tom trying hard to heroically fall on the sword, for the family he wanted to be born into, so badly. Greg used really well here, I like him dropped into background conversations....about his thin wrists, lol

as an awkward, lanky man with thin wrists I related when he was really happy at being told his wrists were normal.

I can't handle Kendall's face for much longer. I mean, it's excellent, but it makes me want to cry myself.

incredible depiction of a weird rich loser

i once tried to stage an intervention for my parents when i was a teenager: this show is the only thing i hqve willingly participated in that has made feel the same levels of anxiety, discomfort, terror & unpleasantness

i have to engage my whole core not to leave the room 25 times per episode

i love it so much

i really love this episode!
but i always like the insane pendulum swings w kendall
his full embarrassing hubris high after fucking up shiv’s town hall, barging in & bro-ing with the show writer 15 minutes before the show cut to
hiding in fetal position in the server room, like a little boy hiding from punishment

but also like Logan & Shiv in this ep, as much as Kendall, the whole family have such terrible kneejerk instincts to hurt each other personally, but everything vengeful thing they do to each other takes another jenga piece of the whole structure down.
steeples fingers: it’s truly ~fascinating~

I didn't totally understand whether it was somehow kendall or whether it was disgruntled employees who set up the speakers at the town hall

also i kind of loved how the host of "disruption" kind of sucked and was basically the resistance version of ATN

kendall sent his assistant the “shopping list” to buy the speakers, the empty speaker boxes were in his office
i dunno that he could get any employees onside in such a short window of time to help w that
it was totally kendalls own crew

and yeah the disruption was as earnest & weighted w meaning as kendall himself which made it stupid & lame & funny rather than the cultural overthrow he was aiming for lol

am surprised he didnt unfurl kendall-as-che banners from the ceiling

All I was thinking is server rooms are very loud and hot and that is probably not a comfortable environment in that corduroy bomber jacket.

I liked the good tweet, bad tweet game in the back of the limo, Kendall does slapped arse face so well, seeing him yo-yo between privileged mania and cold hard realisations that rock him into some past pain is powerful, I liked this episode way more than the first two, the characters felt more like themselves from previous seasons. That's said, Roman in mega awkward mode is more pronounced than ever, barely able to stop contorting himself, I loved the scene where he just walks out on a conversation, like he done that a million times where he's too insulated from the ennui of real interaction to ever have to stay put and deal with any conflict or uncomfortableness. His uncomfortableness around Logan and family drama being the only context he can't just flip the bird to or walk away from the responsibility, hence the agonising

The actor who plays Kendall is so good that just the way he walks communicates the entirety of the character

I can't think of an actor who is so good at making simple bodily movements so expressive, and yet remaining entirely naturalistic throughout

That long corridor walk was a great piece of acting, no dialogue, just Kendall, deep in his head, the palpable inner dialogue of him coaching himself into the Kendell he wants to be versus the Kendell he actually is....insecure, unsure and barely holding thing together, it is a really good performance. Liked the Shiv and Logan talk as well, again, Shiv, wild behind the eyes with her own machinations and inner dialogue, seeing her own ambitions crumbling into the inescapable, immovable void, her stone cold father.a

It's Mondale I feel sorriest for.

also i kind of loved how the host of "disruption" kind of sucked and was basically the resistance version of ATN

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I got a Full Frontal with Samantha Bee vibe from it, and Ziwe basically confirmed that:

How did they rewrite Sophie to better fit you?

Initially it was more a Sam Bee-type, I think. They adjusted the character to be Sophie Iwobi. That’s a Nigerian name, so it was adjusted for my personality, but I really had nothing to do with the writing. I got the script, I memorized it, showed up the day of. I improvised things, but I haven’t even seen the episode, so I can’t even tell you what made it.

kendall sent his assistant the “shopping list” to buy the speakers, the empty speaker boxes were in his office

Thanks, I totally missed all this

That scene actually did make me think "I wonder what the vibe is with just general mid-level employees at Waystar/Royco" but probably I would not actually enjoy it if the show went more this way.

that scene w Roman & Logan is so good. Culkins subtle movements are so tellin the way he lowers his head slightly, and without really doing much just somehow pulls himself ~inward~ ….but even with his gaze lowered, he’s constantly watching Logan like he’s on high alert waiting for a stray backhand

Roman’s deal will never been completely explicated but it feels less like a “who hurt you?” situation — obviously, the answer is that everyone in his family is just constantly trying to wear each other down — but “who never paid attention to you as a human, with needs” which is also everyone

the fact he repurposed a fishing story to give a dad anecdote, and it was fishing with Connor of all people, jesus christ

All I was thinking is server rooms are very loud and hot and that is probably not a comfortable environment in that corduroy bomber jacket.

Yeah, that bugged me too.

So glad I stuck it out with S1. Bachelor party in the club episode was great television . And what an epic closing to the season

:D

the greg/logan private meeting went exactly as I’d guessed it would. amazing to just spring that on us, as everything in life seems to just spring up at greg

“what do you want?”
“what can i get?”
logan, somehow not contorting in frustration:
“that is not how this works”

S2 e1 starts too fast
Ken doll decompressing in the infinity pool for less than two days ?

christ this episode

i keep thinking about the poor chef/caterer and all the wasted food for that fuckin cliff-top summit.