HBO's Succession - Season 2 and Beyond

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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

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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

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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

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a job for thee m'lady

lmao

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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.

One can of course write a great book whose main goal is to catalogue the damage wealthy people leave in their wake, often intentionally -- you could for instance write "The Jungle" but that's a fundamentally different kind of thing than what TGG and Succession are.

yes but 'comfrey' is totally the type of name a britisher would invent, sort of like 'cumberbatch' xp

its true its a british name

it a type of flowering shrub iirc

coming up with new flower-based names is something that probably ties to some group or another

also she was a comms major

wow

Not sure I understand

There was just a lot in this

The waiters snapping towels behind Tom and Greg as if to remind them "remember when this thing between us was just fun between men?"

Lol that was a good finale

not sure i even have this right? caroline, on her wedding night, takes a call from her ex husband & agrees over the course of that call to vote w logan to sell to gojo thus destroying the super majority the kids would have had to block ? & it didnt occur to logan the need to do this until tom tipped him off ???

that was good

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Not quite but type end result is the same. The only reason the kids have any power in the company is because of the divorce agreement and some bylaws that were agreed to. Logan went to her to ask her to allow for a revision to those bylaws and she agreed for whatever reason (well I think she now thinks her kids should be trying to succeed in their own). So that supermajority provision is now gone. Tom told Logan about this; I doubt Logan even realized it was there it sounded like it was buried so deep in some contract no one knew it was there.

As for why Tom did this, Tom realizes that success in business cannot rode in blood alone. This isn’t a monarchy. Tom got access via Shiv but wants to prove his own value; Logan and Mr Vice Media probably guaranteed him some powerful position in exchange.

it’s been clear for multiple episodes that Logan has been negotiating with Scary Poppins

she wanted to keep (get?) that english residence, the Onion was sniffing around for a MBE or some other title horseshit, and the kids were all “oh, what if new stepdad rips her off?” instead of asking what Logan would want in return for these favors

he’s been likely doing what he always does, stringing a negotiation along until he has something that absolutely
benefits him, and then instantly closing. probably just made a quick call to say he’d give her all that if she removed the supermajority clause and closed it out

oh shit I didn't realize Tom called Greg "Sporus" in that conversation

shiv’s conversation with her mom was this missed opportunity to read between the lines and ask questions because it was made clear
1. Mom perhaps didn’t care much about parenting, but her stated intention in letting Logan have the kids was that they’d legally hold on to part of the company
2. dear old mum and Peter would so much like to maintain their position, and perhaps better it, in british society
3. Mom’s marriage was triggering a re-evaluation of the divorce agreement