HBO's Succession - Season 2 and Beyond

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!

Did they mention why Naomi wasn't there? Seemed like an odd omission if not.

Just as the fateful boardroom meeting started, I said out loud to Kevin, "Roman's doing too well right now, it can't last". And so it came to pass. But bloody HELL, was Shiv quick to seize the opportunity (earning herself a rare "Pinky" from Logan, always a good sign). I've also been #teamgerri for a long time, now perhaps more than ever, as this has potentially granted her major leverage.

It seemed to me that Shiv had done a line or two before not-quite-sexy-time with Tom (and this might also have been implied with her dancing at K's 40th). The sniffing was quite subtly done, but it was there.

I also liked it that Willa was still gauche enough to remark that their Tuscan room was "nice". She's intriguingly unreadable for most of the time.

i kind of hope kendall is dead. . . don't know where else he could go. . . he's not in the preview for the next weeks episode, of course. (Spoiler!)

also in that New Yorker profile Jeremy comes off as a total prick. He's a tremendous actor but as Brian Cox puts it. . . you don't have to do that, you can just act.

This was brutal to watch, just terrible scene after terrible scene. Jesus, Lady Caroline!

I've been so fooled by how competent Roman has been lately that he tricked me, of course he couldn't keep it going, and then Shiv ratting him out and confronting Gerri. . . which was prob my fav scene.

But yeah I hope Kendall is dead or in a coma

There's a fairly prolific kids' author called Jeremy Strong so I always do a bit of a double-take when I'm browsing in the library, especially today at one called 'My brother's famous bottom'.

He's a tremendous actor but as Brian Cox puts it. . . you don't have to do that, you can just act.

Like, it's all fine if you want to do this kind of prep on your own time, and even if you want to remove yourself from the other actors or talk in the accent constantly or whatever, but if you've reached the stage of disrupting other professionals on set trying to do their jobs properly (as he appears to have done during the Sorkin film), or you're asking people to do extra work to enhance your character work (like asking for special prop photo albums to be made just for you) then you are being unprofessional. At least production crews seem pretty able to rein him in, though, and he seems to take it.
They can all thank their lucky stars he has no sense of humour. Imagine if he was like this and he also liked pranking people.

Ha ha well put!!! And I could not agree more he has no sense of humor, people like that rub me the wrong way

i like when actors are psycho weirdos about acting its cool

one funny detail about the article is how hes into all this very highbrow film and literature but has distilled it down to motivational quotes which is very middlebrow

*receives mailed trash from Jared Leto*

*likes it*

i like when actors are psycho weirdos about acting its cool

― lag∞n, Tuesday, December 7, 2021 9:11 AM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

agreed; why would i want my actors to be normal. also i like how he takes his job seriously, also as others have pointed out, kendall as a character wouldn't be so heartbreaking (even if annoying af) if he didn't approach the role that way.

There's a fairly prolific kids' author called Jeremy Strong so I always do a bit of a double-take when I'm browsing in the library, especially today at one called 'My brother's famous bottom'.

No, you don't understand, that IS Jeremy Strong the actor, one of his ways of immersing himself in Kendall is writing and publishing an entire book about having a brother who's famously a bottom

i hope kendo has died!

horseshoe
Posted: December 7, 2021 at 9:41:13 AM
i like when actors are psycho weirdos about acting its cool

― lag∞n, Tuesday, December 7, 2021 9:11 AM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

agreed; why would i want my actors to be normal. also i like how he takes his job seriously, also as others have pointed out, kendall as a character wouldn't be so heartbreaking (even if annoying af) if he didn't approach the role that way.

yeah his intensity and seriousness really come through, i mean someone else could prob do it a different way but hes got it working and i salute him

taking your job seriously vs. being unapproachable

i kind of hope kendall is dead. . . don't know where else he could go. . . he's not in the preview for the next weeks episode, of course. (Spoiler!)

next week's episode? I thought this was the season finale?

no one more

virtually everyone who has done any theater work ever knows a jeremy strong type. sometimes they're successful. they tend to be insufferable regardless.

it’s not his JOB to be sufferable to you

Got David Caruso written all over it.

not roman’s background being a MIDDLE FINGER TO SHIV #Succession pic.twitter.com/3K0jw9Z32S

— zach (@zach_shaw_) December 6, 2021

lol

it's kinda unrealistic that gerri is in roman's phone as "Gerri Kellman" - i bet he'd have her in there as like "rack my balls gerri" or something

also this is super quibbly but the way Roman sent the text to Logan is not really possible? but who gives a shit it was such a great turn

I think the animation was a little off, but if you're in the middle of texting someone, get a notification and absent-mindedly click on it, and then put in your message/photo, you've switched who you're texting

just tried it on my phone and it was a little off, but worked

Yeah, it shows Logan texting Roman a message very similar to the one Gerri texted a split-second before, so it makes sense when he clicked to reply he thought it was to Gerri.

@rogermexico - fair, I'm rooting for Jerri too, I guess. How long til we get an episode showing how awful she really is?

even after dispatching the whole roy clan, jerri's knife will still be clean; it's her superpower

pretty funny shiv trying to trick jerri, the top lawyer at a huge company, into enacting legal proceedings

Gerri: "I don't recall."

you know youre good when youve always got i dont recall ready

the other slightly unrealistic thing was everybody at the party seeing skarsgard's tweet at once - as if everybody had twitter on their phone and notifs for skarsgard turned on? not likely. probably more likely roman or the balding pr guy does and then emailed everybody the tweet. but then how did logan find out so quickly? logan's the ceo. ceo's don't read emails

No the way star pr woman messengered them I thought.

xpost - I'm assuming his assistant showed him.

I think the animation was a little off, but if you're in the middle of texting someone, get a notification and absent-mindedly click on it, and then put in your message/photo, you've switched who you're texting

just tried it on my phone and it was a little off, but worked

ah ok. i was def. willing to suspend my disbelief, and it's totally quibbly anyway.

If you want to know re: Ken dead or not, read this article carefully, there is a spoiler but you have to do some detective work

https://www.vulture.com/article/succession-season-three.html

^^^ that's the article

logan's also got a suspicious fluency in emojis for somebody who's in his 80s

there is a spoiler but you have to do some detective work