HBO's Succession - Season 2 and Beyond

not sure why everyone keeps acting like Comfrey is the hottest thing to ever walk the earth and Greg is some anthropomorphic egg who is insane for even approaching her

― akm, Tuesday, December 7, 2021 5:47 PM (twenty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i mean she is hot and greg is a huge dork who called her mlady when she said she might have to slime him in the press

ive never listened to the red scare podcast but since i go on twitter i have heard people talk about it

i also did not watch white lotus but still it was funny to hear that the director told the actors playing the awful college girls to model their performance after red scare

tbh I think Greg could be enamored with anyone above the social status of starbucks barista — and maybe not the barista at the good ATN starbucks — and they’d be negging him just as hard

like the entire thing with these people is they’re enacting their own versions of Logan’s dog kicking, with Tom’s being weirdly frat boy-esque, Roman trying his weird repressed version, even Connor, having experienced an earlier childhood, doing his weird shit

there’s this bit where Logan wants everyone to succeed, within his dog-kicking standards of fealty. you drop the fealty or don’t appreciate getting kicked, he just makes your life hell. and if you put up with it, you’re one of his godawful goblin children and he will kick and defend you to the end of the earth

for is new car, he asks Roman if he’s some kind of pervert and the first response is just to clean shit up even if he’s firing the president of his company

lol autocorrect, *for instance

yeah that he would go straight to firing gerri tells you everything you need to know about the inner circle

I devoured that profile and I know the New Yorker fact checkers don’t play but… there is no way Jeremy Strong held a boom mic for Anthony Hopkins speech on Amistad. That’s a crucial union crew position and they wouldn’t have let him do that, this has been been driving me crazy!

— Rebecca (@MoxietheMaven) December 8, 2021

i had the same thought! You don't get to hold heavy hardware over the head of an oscar winner just because you write letters.

buddy, they won't even let me hold it

both waterface and jaymc seem to think theres more there but theyre not talking...

― lag∞n, Tuesday, December 7, 2021 5:09 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

At first, I had the same thought as you -- why couldn't it be a cut scene from the garden party in the episode we just saw? -- but the details sounded too much like a toast at a wedding. It's described as a scene with "a hundred extras, all seated and cooking in linen suits and sheath dresses," at which Shiv is "delivering some remarks she has been asked to give at the last minute," and where her siblings, including Kendall, are "seated next to her." First, it seems unlikely that the show would've entirely cut a fairly big set-piece like that. Second, it doesn't make sense, plot-wise, given that Kendall is exiled from the pre-wedding festivities almost as soon as he arrives.

yeah good point thanks

Haven't read the hidden text ^^ yet, but am vaguely recalling a length profile of an actor right before they were knocked off a show, maybe The Sopranos.

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

When is the StrongBraun duet?

Nick Braun’s soundcloud music is such a slay pic.twitter.com/ua98fNFVOE

— sam (@zo1oft) December 7, 2021

StrongBraun!

cousin greg with a james blake soundcloud is just too on brand

Very vox explainer vox explainer

I'd forgotten about him hitting the grandchild in S1. The "let me use my grandson as a food taster and torture my son with the fact that I'm prepared to do that" was still breathtaking though.

I'm not convinced Kendall is dead, but the whole scene with the pool reminded me of The Graduate.

I'm convinced that Kendall is not dead, and the whole scene with the pool reminded me of The Graduate

Was surprised we didn't see any beer spilling out of the bottle.

It was clouds in my coffee clouds in my coffee

Hey, in case you weren’t already feeling old today, I just heard an intern say they loved Succession’s “new weekly drop model” and that it was a smart way to get people hooked.

— Jen Richards (@SmartAssJen) December 8, 2021

u_u

I’m in restaurant business. A young hostess kept letting phone ring. I finally said could you please answer phone.

from one of the top comments and I refuse to believe this is true

I’m in restaurant business. A young hostess kept letting phone ring. I finally said could you please answer phone. She didn’t know how.

cropped it too short

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FGG0j5AWUAUfQZH.jpg

His Editions Mego stuff was pretty good, but I'm not a huge fan of that Three Lobed collab he did with Lee Ranaldo.

Anyone else think this all misdirection and Logan croaks in the finale?

Dunno, but like I said upthread I think the contents of Logan's will are going to come into play at some point.

the slippage of 'my brother's famous bottom' to 'my brother's A famous bottom' itt is my favourite plot twist this week

i mean she is hot she is? she's no Willa.

john wilson going to waltz into the wedding reception with his camera and catch Kendall accidentally killing a bartender

Just realised that none of the main characters seem to have any real friends. Ken's relationship with Stewie in season one is probably the closest we've seen to an actual friendship

Comfrey is more of a nerd than a hottie. And Greg is a fine looking gentleman with a totally fucked up sense of man, he does not know how to be one

she seems like a completely normal assistant character working for a weirdo rich ghoul

not sure how you get one of those jobs, probably went to the right school or whatever. then you end up with an apartment full of lunch boxes

craigslist

gregslist

a job for thee m'lady

lmao

gregslist

― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Thursday, December 9, 2021 5:25 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Got an amazing deal on a watch!

Is "comfrey" an east coast elite name? Sounds like an open source OS.

i think its her last name?

i thought "comfrey" was just greg butchering her name until i turned the subtitles on

Comfrey and her brother, Wintergreen.

comfrey sort of makes sense since it's a show written by britishers?

I'm a Britisher and I've never before in my life heard the name, as a first or last name.

me neither

I just wanna say, though I think this is a minority view, that thinking of this show as being about awful people who you are supposed to hate is the wrong way to watch it. To me every character is sympathetic. Which does not mean "you like them." But it does mean you can find their way into your minds, literally sympathizing with them.

Lots of comparison upthread to Gatsby, and I think that's apt. Of course there are ways in which Gatsby is the villain of the piece. But if the point of the novel were "Gatsby sucks, so I wrote a book about how much Gatsby sucks," it would not be a very good novel. Yes "The Great Gatsby" has bitter irony to it but what makes irony irony is that there's a paradox to it -- he IS great, and also small. Again, if it were just "huh huh he thinks he's so great but he sucks," it would not be irony, it would be mockery, and it would be much less of a book.