HBO's Succession - Season 2 and Beyond

wonder if the kids are still on the hook to buy pierce. do they even remember they did that?

xp haha yeah that's probably it, whether there is a "second India" is immaterial, Mattson just needs to keep moving forward, like some kind of tech business shark

overstating your subscriber numbers by 2x in one country doesnt seem like that big of a deal especially in a mid income country like india, but i guess we dont really know what the deal with gojo is generally

granted india does contain many people

maybe he lost the premiere cricket league streaming contract

they are wild for their cricket over there

india is a nice touch, feel like it’s been a ‘growth area’ for a lot of tech companies as the tech industry matures in general and the lines on the charts do not go up as sharply anymore

it’s not very believable but neither is waystar’s stock growing b/c of a vaporware product launch either, they’re good plot devices tho if only for birthing the phrase ‘reverse viking’

one of the most perverse business moves

like apple has already sold iphones to pretty much every single person in the western world so they are now focusing on india (except their phones are too expensive for india) https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-stakes-future-growth-emerging-markets-starting-with-india-2023-05-05/

Also this

recall reading a while ago that phones with huge batteries were popular in india because many people dont have reliable access to electricity, obvs not the segment apple is going for but an interesting sociological nugget nevertheless

speaking of iphones, there was a comment upthread about shiv using a normal ipad instead of an ipad pro… agreed i thought that was weird, there’s so much apple product placement in this show all the roys are using iphone pros with the 3 cameras, tom is using an android iirc to show he’s a hick… i’m betting it was shiv’s assistants ipad she cant be bothered to actually carry one around, it was funny tho that shot of her huge desk with a tiny ipad and keyboard on it

https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2020/2/26/21154151/apple-bad-guys-movies-iphones-product-placement

we’re an episode out from it but i’d be remiss to point out that living+ is clearly a wework reference, real estate play masquerading as tech with a lot of woo woo thrown on top

Mayyyyybe but it's a direct reference to the "storytelling living by Disney" project in Florida. That's why Matteson used the Mickey stand in when tweeting about it.

https://www.storylivingbydisney.com

Look at this shit

Jfc

hahah wow, you’re absolutely right. i just sort of assumed the writers invented living+, but truth is stranger than fiction right?

Just always remember Waystar is a lil Disney and a lil Fox

yes, living+ cruise roots are also disney

I think it's correct to read some Adam Neumann in Ken's launch, though

I think I saw one of the writers somewhere mention Microsoft announcements as inspo? Hoping for a full on Steve Balmer moment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CVucnt46ww

disney should hire jeremy strong to redo this video, as a joke (to show they’re in on it)

that video is something i'd expect to see in the first half an hour of a horror flick where the theme is something crawls out of the lagoon and devours the town

nobody’s said “full nut nut” for awhile, i miss full nut nut

disney is a wild company lol

theyre totally abusing the term lagoon there btw

Man what a hellscape

I find I don't enjoy this show nearly as much without Logan in it. Sort of glad it's at its end.

I think I saw one of the writers somewhere mention Microsoft announcements as inspo?

he also explicitly said "and another thing" which was Jobs' famous launch line

Lol I was going to say I think the shiw has almost been stronger than ever now that Logan has vacated, not addition by subtraction but a necessarily escalation of the tension and underlying hostilities between the other parties that had been held at bay due to the common enemy.

logan is living+

he installed himself forever in the self-image of his children

https://tubitv.com/movies/447847/shivers

From Starco, a division of General Structures Incorporated.

Minority opinion but I think this show is better if you don't try to attach things in it to specific real-world companies; Roy isn't Musk, or Neumann, or Bob Iger, or a composite of these, he's Roy

I felt for Shiv during the balcony scene, when she questioned Tom’s inconsistent motivations, because I don’t think the writers have figured him out either. Nonetheless — Macfadyen always does an incredible job squaring the circle between Comedy Tom and Serious Tom

Oh that's another fake show name that is super weird: Wambsgans

Minority opinion but I think this show is better if you don't try to attach things in it to specific real-world companies; Roy isn't Musk, or Neumann, or Bob Iger, or a composite of these, he's Roy

its obvs inspired by the murdochs tho

Yeah the siblings are almost an exact match for the Murdochs. Older sibling from former marriage who has nothing to do with the business, plus two sons and a daughter sparring it out.

James founded Rawkus, Kendall believes himself to be extremely hip-hop.

even down to kendalls rapping lol xp

Oh that's another fake show name that is super weird: Wambsgans

― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, May 10, 2023 6:26 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Have thought this from the start, it seems completely satirical.

Someone on Twitter pointed out that it might be significant that there was an obscure baseball player from the 20s or 30s who pulled off some kind of feat which involved defeating three opponents(?) - sorry about the vagueness of this post but I know nothing abt baseball and I can't find the tweet anymore. Might mean something to someone here though!

Yep, he's named after the only player in history to pull off an unassisted triple play in the World Series.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Wambsganss

Zero question this was intentional and meant to foreshadow the end of s3.

its obvs inspired by the murdochs tho

― lag∞n, Wednesday, May 10, 2023 6:40 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Again, this was not obvious to me, I know nothing about this family and I feel my viewing of Succession was enriched by not trying to map it onto those people

ok

“In game five of the 1920 World Series played at League Park, Wambsganss caught a fifth-inning line drive batted by Clarence Mitchell, stepped on second base to retire Pete Kilduff, and tagged Otto Miller coming from first base, to complete the only unassisted triple play in World Series history.”
Awesome but can’t see Tom in here at all

the latest episode of the Know Your Enemy podcast interviewed TV writers Will Arbery (of Succession) and Dorothy Fortenberry (of Extrapolations), and at the very end the latter revealed that her husband's last name is Wambsgans.

Shiv as a redhead always made me think of Rebekah Brooks, who was CEO of Murdoch's News International in her thirties.