HBO's Succession - Season 2 and Beyond

What's the app called - StarGo or something?
The Madison guy was the worst guy imo
Even worse than trolly little Nazi Roman

Almost wondered if someone was going to recover/hack Roman's piss-soaked phone.

Oh yeah, Skarsgard is excelling at playing terrible men.

Sometimes the Winklevoss and Zuckerberg arrive in one package

was proud of roman for getting him out of his shell

phone pissing was a very believable tech bro story

Tom’s crazy leap from the floor to sit on top the filing cabinets in Greg’s office was awesome

Shivs carefree high af dancing made me feel v protective of her. Also I think she is all but ready to jump ship and or pull a Kendall

Kendall’s “I didnt want this to be an asshole’s birthday party”
sorrry buddy, thats kinda baked-in lol

Skarsgaard so good as deadeyed shark
Roman played it as well as he knew how but seems like Roman is playing Trouble & Skarsgaard is playing 3D chess

THE COMPLIMENT TUNNEL
god this party was a blessing

Kendall’s spiral reaction to not finding his kid’s birthday gift, just gutwrenching. I mean, the breakdow. is obv not just ~about~ that but def symtomatic
he’s so fucked & has so many problems but the fact that he clearly values the ~idea~ of being a good dad but at the same time can’t devote himself to it - he knows what the absence of that is like & doesn’t want that for his kids but still is doing a version of it… so tragic to watch

oh!

and the conversation between Kendall and Naomi at the beginning during rehearsal where he’s asking if it’s good or funny or whatever is so crazy, like everything she says is a non answer?

however, i do think she cares about him but maybe by the end has a full sense of exactly what she’s hitched her wagon to… like, that expression on her face to me is like, “my heart is breaking for you but omg fuck this mommy shit”
plus the way he was with her about the watch, sure she gave him something kinda meaningless, but she also maybe doesnt fully understand him & they havent been together that long & she thought they were still in the fun period? like thats when the scales start really falling from her eyes

dedicated to shiv & her dancing
may she dance freely without ridicule

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNOagGTbO-A

shivs dancing was perfectly rendered

xpost: Kendell and Naomi: Agree her take is a mixture of empathic co dependent and dispassionate 'aintgottimeforthis'. The watch was a lame present meant to highlight their lack of intimacy?!?. gawd, Kendell is pretty awful this season, hollowed out. There seems to be a re-treading of old ground going on with the siblings, I wonder where the show is going, if there's a season 4, feel they need to develop peripheral characters to bounce off more, the sibling drama becoming very predictable

and the conversation between Kendall and Naomi at the beginning during rehearsal where he’s asking if it’s good or funny or whatever is so crazy, like everything she says is a non answer?

Yeah I loved this! I found it really unnerving, I can never tell what people aren't saying

There seems to be a re-treading of old ground going on with the siblings

I dunno, it feels like the nastiness and rivalry between them (especially Roman and Shiv) has gone up a few notches this season. I honestly thought Ken was going to hit Roman there, and I don't think anyone would blame him if he had.

anyone else think that Roman has completely over-played his hand and that Logan is going to go crazy when he hears about the terms Roman has proposed on the tech deal?

Wouldn't be surprised if that was the case

And you gotta hand it to Ken, his music choices for the party were pretty good

Can't see Greg and Comfrey's date going well. Kendall's right, she really is out of his league.

Some interesting suggestions in the Graun recap
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/nov/29/succession-recap-series-three-episode-seven-kendalls-party-is-well-and-truly-pooped

I liked how the super cringe performance stuff (the song, flying harness, cross, etc lol) was just a fake-out to torture the viewer, in light of his daddy rap of yore.

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This was so brilliant, just the suggestion, the barest outline of what was going to happen. also wild to start the episode off with him singing honesty (pretty well!) to an empty room. shit was bleak. I keep thinking of George Costanza's saying "When you're bleak, you're bleak." Was a hard episode to laugh at b/s so much cringe. Thank God only two more episodes, I can't take much more of this. Preview for next week it looks like Ken has shaved his head!

also funny how Kerry was like "Fuck this guy, he's done one good piece of tech" and I was all "She doesn't know shit." But then Matsson shows up (in the treehouse FUCCCCCCCK) and he's an ass.

I think Kerry is going to take over.

Some interesting suggestions in the Graun recap

Holy crap. The last note/observation????? Wow.

Do we know anything about what might be in Logan's will? Has anything ever been said about that?

re: that last guardian comment…the arrested development parallels never stop!

oooh that’d be funny

especially after all the “who the fuck is..” comments

fwiw I think the venue was the Shed, the performing art space in Hudson Yards.

And the DJ was DJ Jubilee btw

yeah his apartments overlooks Hudson Yards xp

thats nice he could just walk home

Can't see Greg and Comfrey's date going well. Kendall's right, she really is out of his league.

definitely. Also, she seemed FUCKED during most of the party. the show is often really quite subtle about how much these people are gone on the drugzzz, but Comfrey just seemed to not be there at all at the party, and I don't really blame her.

really? I thought she was just completely tired from jumping through kendall’s ever-changing series of hoops

that moment where the two assistants find out he’s not going to do his stupid musical/crucifixion number and mumbling “thank christ” only to find out he’d pitched a handful of other things for them to magically make happen instead, with no time whatsoever… just a fucking terrible job

lmao get springsteen in here

fuckin jet packs lmao

springsteen and jet packs, both great ideas

just needed to plan ahead a little more

wondering why they went Springsteen instead of Joel though

trying to upgrade

“yeah i mean a lotta the ideas are jokes, but….some arent”

In every episode:

MAN: “Kendall…your financing has fallen through. Your lawyers have left the building and the DoJ wants more details. Also you inadvertently killed someone and it’s coming out in the press tomorrow.”

KENDALL: “Uh-huh”

i thought it was v funny when kendall is at the treehouse w shiv and roman that almost everything he said to them “you’re not cool” etc is exactly what a 10 year old would say to keep ppl out of their actual treehouse

lol yeah that was good

My other other take is that somehow Greg is the one I hate the most. Gramps otm

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it's almost like the writers realised they had to do an episode where Greg is almost entirely sympathetic, good luck to him and his even-handed maiden

I had missed that Kendall is drinking 40 on the escalator ride with Greg.

*drinking a 40

yes! i loled so hard at that

such a kendall party

40 for 40, it was on theme

omg

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I hope we all noticed the Ready To Die theme. Could this be some kind of suicide foreshadowing??

If any of them are going to die Ken would have to be the favourite but that just seems a bit too obvious

I've been wondering if Logan might let slip some information about Ken's involvement in that lad's death in season one. You wouldn't put it past the old bastard

logan would be vulnerable on that as well, coverup is worse than the crime and all

He could deny there was any coverup, though. There's no papertrail, and whathisface head of security isn't going to say anything. Out of all the employees, he's the only one they treat well (or at least don't treat horrendously). I suppose he's the only one with a hold over them.