HBO's Succession - Season 2 and Beyond

For sure, just the way Karl absolutely crushed all of his misconceptions about his actual status in less than thirty seconds.

And Tom's last gambit to try and reconnect with Shiv, and her shutting him down despite acknowledging that she has zero friends or family who are really on her side (while being pregnant!), just brutal.

also gotta say, another phenomenal episode

The disparity between Tom and Greg flailing around in this episode was striking, like somehow Greg (even minus the whole "addendum on the piece of paper" thing) has moved even about Tom in the pecking order. Sure, his ingratiating sucking up is still pathetic, but all the dismissals from the family just kind of slide off his back, but Tom looked absolutely pathetic as he worked his way through the kids.

Roman seemed to have a more alt-right undercut than he’s had before, if I haven’t just missed it before now.

Greg’s incessant pandering made me physically uncomfortable lol

Kendall & Frank’s scene was beautiful, so perfect

Marcia will make sure no-one wins, huh

yeah interesting to work out where the play is coming from

good to know you can still secure the big houses with a simple offer and handshake in this day and age. no realtor's fees either

lol stop smiling Sandy

what did he supposedly say? "why is this sex party so depressing?"

we see the execs agree that the document with kendalls name on it should be lost then next thing theyre telling kendall about it, whyd they change their minds whatre they up to

they're too chickenshit to throw it away, come on

Didn't seem to be so much a nefarious plot as much as reading the temperature a bit with regards to each other. Also thought Tom was being a bit clever, trying to play the siblings off one another a bit maybe.

he was clumsily interloping

i think the execs are up to something

kerry’s scene was brutal

Gerri knows where the bodies are buried and if the boys try to fuck her over she’ll start throwing shit at them.

the set designer who stuffed kerry's bag with hum vitamins, a tub of laura mercier powder, and a (now broken) fenty compact as if she recently used logan's credit card during a sephora VIB rouge spree isn't being paid enough

— rachel syme (@rachsyme) April 17, 2023

tbf, Marcia is very likely blowing smoke wrt "nightly intimate conversations", what with her very timely return and all

she's probably been primed to play the grieving widow for years

totally, she is playing the game

Maybe but she disappeared quietly and definitely also knows tons of shit.

> we see the execs agree that the document with kendalls name on it should be lost

Recommend re-watching this scene. I don't think Kendall's name was the thing they were most worried about.

lol why dont you just say yr lil document theory

i think it was frank who looked at it and said something like "I'm not going to let that little princess spoil it", presumably meaning he left something big to Kerry or Shiv

i heard it as "the little princes"

I thought that was just derogatory of Kendall

he def says princess but yeah could be referring to kendall which i think they were cause then they start talking about the underline and about how legally its up to the board to decide whos next, so you have the underline you have the ceo succession question seems like theyre talking about the kendall thing, but it still doesnt explain their change of heart, one minute theyre jockeying for the ceo spot and talking about losing the document then next theyre telling kendall about it and rolling over for him, theyre up to something

Going to be a bloodbath in the markets, might just let him take the flak. Plus who knows what they know about that they might want to palm off on the kids.

They probably think he’ll shoot himself in his foot.

or maybe they have a plan to actively sabotage him, do they want the sale to go through or do they want to run the company

he def says princess

― lag∞n, Monday, April 17, 2023 7:27 PM (seventeen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

the captioning says princess but it does sound like he says princes idk if captions have access to the script or theyre just trying their best

also maybe hes referencing the book the little prince

he def says princess but yeah could be referring to kendall which i think they were cause then they start talking about the underline and about how legally its up to the board to decide whos next, so you have the underline you have the ceo succession question seems like theyre talking about the kendall thing, but it still doesnt explain their change of heart, one minute theyre jockeying for the ceo spot and talking about losing the document then next theyre telling kendall about it and rolling over for him, theyre up to something

― lag∞n, Monday, April 17, 2023 bookmarkflaglink

Agree something is up. But I don't feel like "princess" would be a reference Frank would make re Kendall.

Do we think the deals gonna go through

And the kid is not Toms, right.

yeah was thinking that

Not that it will come back, but season 2 or 3 had hints that a true crime podcast was getting closer to connecting Kendall with the s1 drowning. And it seems like Geri could get Roman sacked for harassment anytime.

and feeling the deal is gonna get fucked up mattson is gonna smell blood

Sounds like the execs are up to something

I don't feel like "princess" would be a reference Frank would make re Kendall.

― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Monday, April 17, 2023 7:54 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

agreed, i have amended my stance on the princess/princes situation, see above

Already said this but after last weeks great episode and then this week which was equally masterful—and lol a bottle episode—I have high hopes for the ending, feel like it’s gonna be perfect and make sense tho I have no idea what’s gonna happen

Yeah Kendall’s almost gotta get his comeuppance via the dead waiter

idk the show is pretty clear on plebs not mattering

"no real person involved" iirc

right, and i trust theyll stick to that because theyre british

Doctor says something about "our journey" to Shiv which makes me think it might be donor sperm not Tom

it’s a 20 week checkin with the doctor so shiv is pretty far along, imo! far enough for aling it to be feasible that it IS tom’s, circa pre-tuscan betrayal imo

would love it if kerry turns out to be preggo too

far enough *along for* it

Also Shiv's falling on the stairs for no good reason. Could it be foreshadowing a miscarriage