HBO's Succession - Season 2 and Beyond

they mentioned the important info was in pencil. i'm assuming they erased it.

thinking a weekly poll of who will comes out on top would be fun.

the pencil part was the underline

think the main point of 'the paper' is to show how even after his death everyone is still terrified of and traumatized by Logan,
it has no legal bearing - is years out of date (probably a cpl) but still exerts power over them - though it doesnt even have the weight of his last wishes
Marcia i'm sure got the flat tied up when she and her lawyer held Logan hostage over messy divorce possibility cpl seasons back and the kids seemed pretty certain it was hers clear and free and they'd take any opportunity to screw her over if they could

“greg ?” was hilarious

think the main point of 'the paper' is to show how even after his death everyone is still terrified of and traumatized by Logan

Agreed. The old guard may have speculated in a comic mode about flushing it down the toilet, but they still couldn't bring themselves to actually do it

thinking a weekly poll of who will comes out on top would be fun.

strong endorse

thinking a weekly poll of who will comes out on top would be fun.

I think none of them wanted to the one who actually pulled the trigger (toilet flush).

eric bogosian's bernie sanders stand-in is gonna win the presidency and nationalize waystar/atn

Do a 21st century update of the Seinfeld ending except all the Roys get guillotined instead of jailed

Btw I totally forgot that Stephen Root is in this show

Always welcome.

The vulture or one of those recappers has a fun power rankings after every episode.

The old guard may have speculated in a comic mode about flushing it down the toilet, but they still couldn't bring themselves to actually do it

Probably a good idea, given the state of security and surveillance and the late man’s home.

xpost - Yeah The Vulture has one but, as I learned last season, there is a whole subculture of people doing power rankings on their substacks and blogs. It's a much bigger thing that I expected!

I blame recap culture.

Hugo's head to neck ratio is astounding

― dicbo=v2-ubswizzb&hrt (stevie), Tuesday, April 18, 2023 7:36 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

omg yesssss I am so happy someone else noticed

my wife and I call him Lollipop Head

I liked how naturally Kendall used his knowledge of Hugo's vulnerability (re his daughter's stock sale) to get him to do what he wants. He's got a little bit of the old man in him at least.

that bit felt like kendall LARPING logan, tbh, "it's what the old man would have done" or whatever. fully expect that gambit to blow up in kendall's face next ep

lol
otm

heh I can only think of Hugo as "pencil-neck"

I mostly thought Kendall wanted to shit on his dad for personal reasons, not so much that he thought it would benefit him in the company. But I agree it's likely to backfire becz that's his norm.

you guys really think kendall making an impulsive decision on his own like five minutes after he agreed with roman and shiv that they're working as a team going forward is going to backfire???

Thought it was a possibility that Hugo’s skinny neck was because of cancer or something irl

going back upthread to the people who think "the paper" has some other bombshell info besides the mention of kendall - the kids all look at the paper and no one makes any mention of anything else on there so i'm not sure what other important info could be there? unless they all skim over it bc they're distracted by the kendall thing. but i believe you all are overthinking it

― na (NA), Tuesday, April 18, 2023 bookmarkflaglink

Haha, guilty. I think there has been a version of this in every episode—something that wasn’t intended as ominous but was received as such. (Why did Kendall decide to push Matson? Why did Roman need to go onto the plane? What was on the paper - who is the princess??).

What if Logan wrote "Kerry gets everything" in invisible ink

Thought it was a possibility that Hugo’s skinny neck was because of cancer or something irl

Yeah, he did have Hodgkins Lymphoma and the treatment for that is pretty severe. In googling that, just to be sure, I see that he was in a three-year relationship with Michelle Pfeiffer at one stage. Fair play to the lad, that is some punching above your weight.

Shit, sorry Hugo re the neck thing. But not sorry re MICHELLE PFEIFFER!?

looks like nicholas braun is a disgusting brother irl too

Oh for god's sake, really?

I love Stewy, he's probably my favourite out of everyone. His "he's 95 and just started suing his neighbour" line really made me laugh

so far just rumors on social media xp

i'm going to post everything people have been saying about him under here https://t.co/sf3sfUte9H

— (pink) business milk🥛(succ spoilers) (@schizomoding) April 8, 2023

Well that all seems very cool and great.

Uggggh, gross (@ Greg irl)

and Justin Theroux. Just after having a discussion with friends about how amazing The Leftovers was and how he's the only person my wife considered a celebrity crush...now to find out he and cousin greg are praying on 19 year olds in their shitty bar. Really sad.

Yeah, those are pretty gross allegations. Even if they are only partially true at best he's a skeevy creep, more likely even worse.

Oh damnit, didn't know about Justin Theroux and I'm only now finally watching the last season of The Leftovers.

sorry to share that info. Apparently he's now involved with the 18 year old star of his version of the Mosquito Coast. Don't let it cloud you, the third season of the Leftovers is as good as TV gets. Here's hoping Carrie Coon is uncancellable.

lol, Tom's got a Dell

do not trust matsson at all!

Yeah, surely he's just trying to embarrass them/make them anger the board when they don't accept his offer?

I think they’ll accept it. Everyone else wants it. I mean maybe Mattson is playing games but he seems like he actually wants the deal. Once he realized Kendall and Roman were trying to blow it up, he fucked them by going over the top (per Shiv’s advice that he could get it with a little bump in the price) and making it too good to turn down.

Of course there are still ways it could go wrong, but it seems like the sale is going through.

I loved how immediately Mattson saw what they were clumsily up to, another example of Ken and Rom not actually knowing how to do business. Mattson’s a toxic weirdo but he’s way out of their weight class in knowing what he’s doing.

funny thing is this is the best possible thing for the them they dont have a chance to tank their inherited empire now, tho maybe theyre just going to overpay for the nytimes and tank that instead

otm it was funny how they had this talk about being all subtle like only for their plan to be exposed immediately

maybe the deal will still blow up over this whole sending blood thing

shiv just sitting on that info lol

Frozen blood scene def the highlight

"Shiv, we're death-wrestling with ogres."

i liked how the swedes were cool long hair beards and so forth that was nice