HBO's Succession - Season 2 and Beyond

Shiv’s outfit was hottt

oh god the proposal was so weird & sad

"some people aren't meant to be mothers, i probably should have just had dogs but he wouldn't allow it"

― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Monday, December 6, 2021 1:05 PM (sixteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

and then she says "he would kick anything that loves him just to see if they would come back" as justification for not getting dogs, willfully oblivious (or non-caring) about the fact that he constantly does this to his kids (who to be fair, in this particular case, are less lovable than dogs)

Connor's fakeout though, when everyone watching and Willa thought he was gonna drop. her, and she suddenly started saying they could go underground again. That was sad.

Everyone’s Sunglasses game is always on point

Shiv's morning-after line to Tom was even worse than what she said when she was allegedly role-playing. "I mean, I don't love you, but I love you."

what happens in sexvegas stays in sexvegas

ooh yeah that line killed me. the love you one, not the sexvegas one.

shivs logic = lets have a REVENGE child

Usually with these shows about awful people, they tend to try to sand off their rough edges over the years and give them some sympathetic characteristics for viewers to care about. This show goes the Seinfeld/Sunny route and just makes them worse and worse.

Shiv and Roman just say the most awful things to each other and everyone else. Shiv constant negging of Tom is particularly horrible, due to the desperately-sad looks Macfayden creates for Tom. And of course, everything that comes out of Roman's mouth is crafted to be as mean as possible.

What makes this show different is that, for the most part, the meanness is directed at the other awful characters. But that tends to dull the impact of their meanness, since they all deserve all of the shit thrown their way.

I think I'd like to see some character in the show who isn't a POS, but so far, I don't think there are any? This show is so overwhelmingly-cynical that I guess that type of person couldn't even exist in the Roys' orbit. The closest we get are their domestic employees, but they only serve as nameless servants for the Roys to carelessly abuse.

Am I only watching this for plot

"I'm not a radical feminist, dad, but I think perhaps we should not fire her for receiving pictures of my dick?"

so crazy

tipsy otm re this episode

Culkin's physical performance after that mis-sent pic was A+ perfect, tweet above otm.

Yes! How do you physically make your own face look THAT sick without actually puking?

As soon as bad mummy said all that stuff I knew Shiv was going to suggest making a baby.
"He doesn't give a single solitary fuck" is nearly a direct line from Peep Show. I'm sure there was another one, too. Maybe 'everyone knows what you're thinking, and it's disgusting'.
BTW I'd assumed the actual wedding had happened, off-camera, before the deal stuff? I really don't know though.

God, more than ANYTHING ELSE this episode just made me want to go on a really amazing warm and delicious holiday to Italy.

btw you guys, what's the time? Oh gosh, is that really the time? Let me check my watch.

oh god I forgot about that

"He doesn't give a single solitary fuck" is nearly a direct line from Peep Show. I'm sure there was another one, too. Maybe 'everyone knows what you're thinking, and it's disgusting'.

Roman and Jez sure do share a lot of personality traits

wedding proper is to be held during finale next wk apparently

if kendall survives he should do a rap

Incredible episode but I was distracted by concern of Shiv's skin in that sun.

the whitest kids u know

same! i was hoping she had lots of sunscreen

it would be really great, although seemingly crazy as a choice for the people running the show, if Kendall drowned in the pool

i think it's been the direction everything has been pointing? though i imagine they'll just give him a bit of brain damage or he'll find jesus or something instead.

The whole story starts with Logan's brain starting to fall apart, so closing it with a brain-damaged Kendall, and then brain-damaged father and brain-damaged son finally conceding that neither now has the mental force left to break the sick bond between them, would be a good ending

Kendall (RIP) spills all the family secrets in a Makaveli-type mixtape.

ok, there's no way greg would've been invited to this wedding!

hes part of the crew, greg is down

peter munion wants to invite all the important people like logan and greg

i dont think greg was invited they just brought him

theyve got a bunch of employees with them comfrey is there, logans assistant/girlfriend

You would think Greg’s dad (Logan’s brother?) would be there.

we wouldnt want to upset logan

kendalls not allowed near the wedding but sure makes sense to have greg noncing about hitting on duchesses why not

logan isnt mad at greg, logan accepts greg into the crew

I think I'd like to see some character in the show who isn't a POS, but so far, I don't think there are any?

― DJI, Monday, December 6, 2021

#teamgerri

Greg is a trophy of victory against Gramps and Ken

i would like to see a scene where they talk about why greg is allowed in the crew

gotta say the happiest and most in-sync tom and shiv have been all series was when they were bullying greg together

he should stick around to be a kind of stress ball for their marriage

Season will end in a greg, tom, and shiv threesome that results in pregnancy

"A fight for a knife (shiv) in the mud"

brilliant line, doesn't resonate for me, but I am not a KILLAR

or a scot

Greg providing Shiv and Tom with a baby would be amazing!

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— Matt Karolian (@mkarolian) December 7, 2021

lol

Having read thAt new yorker profile, Strong doesn’t not seem like the sort of person whose character you might drown to get off a popular show, just saying

Unless he was so much of a pain on set (which would be the speculation if Kendall is in fact done).

Also not mentioned yet: the aside early in the episode that a podcast was investigating the drowning Kendall was involved in.

That felt like it was only seasoning Ken's skull for what Logan would deposit later

the way logan continually plays him for sport is so brutal — and the way kendall lets himseld be played for sport. ugh. this family

Logan beats them to see if they'll come back, seems a key line this episode

i hope kendo has died!