HBO's Succession - Season 2 and Beyond

Logan's got his billions AND a sourdough starter iirc
that's why he's the king

Con would be running for school board.

And the fucked up thing is he'd win

The One Where Con Discovers Critical Race Theory

Be careful what you wish for
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0e/Splitting_Heirs.jpg

Another interesting interview - this one with the director. Turns out the intimacy of the first few eps was virtually all covid https://www.vulture.com/article/mark-mylod-succession-season-3-finale-interview.html

was the penultimate scene when they're driving over CGI background? felt very weird.

NOSY PEDESTRIANS

pic.twitter.com/aAcH7kQ3cp

— Arrested Succession (@ArrestSuccess) December 14, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPViS1HFsFY

the final scene will be brian cox addressing the camera saying you are the successor and it pans and hes talking to iverson

― lag∞n, Friday, December 3, 2021 1:36 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

's rabbit

― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, December 3, 2021 1:38 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

lmao

iversons DEAD rabbit

― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, December 3, 2021 2:01 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

This is great

Also I just finally caught up on this show and I could watch J Smith-Cameron or Jeannie Berlin in anything

I'm guessing you've seen Margaret then...

Yeah that was my first intro to both actors!

TIL that Jeannie Berlin is Elaine May's daughter, I had no idea.

Brian Cox on the much-talked-about NYer article concludes with quite the mic drop https://t.co/qKpbyFHV3A pic.twitter.com/1AFUD5abwH

— Emma Fraser (@frazbelina) January 19, 2022

have to click on that to see the best line

between succession and the last duel, harriet walter deserves some kind of award for playing the shittiest moms in 2021 entertainment

@mookieproof ty I would have thought the mic drop was "what?"

I'm putting that on my business card lol

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2021 season is nominated in the ILX TV poll, with voting ending this weekend:

ILX's Best Television of 2021 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 31, 2022

If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (3 minimum, 25 maximum, ranked by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail. It'll take five minutes; get to it!

Cool. I'm re-watching s3 right now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_858IukwBQ

if you'd like the short version

I saw that! It's hella flavourful

Alan Ruck being 10 years younger than Brian Cox is breaking my brain

If you enjoy Harriet Walter being a total cow of a mother she's also doing that in "This Is Going To Hurt" on BBC.

If you enjoy Harriet Walter being a total cow of a mother she's also doing that in "This Is Going To Hurt" on BBC.

also The Last Duel

after avoiding this show for three years i watched an episode on the plane that i thought was S1E1 but was really S3E1 lol

so of course i had to go back and binge the first two seasons in like 4 days.

it really is as great as everybody says it is. i’m about to start S3 properly now so stopped reading this thread several hundred posts ago. before i go i just want to remind you of the way roman describes himself in S1: “i look like a matador and everyone wants to fuck me”

oh just one more thing, i swear

tom was reminding me of an 80s supporting actor, like somebody from police academy, it’s uncanny, and finally i realised no - i was thinking of beverley hills cop 2. he has HUGE judge reinhold energy. HUGE!

whoa you are not wrong

otm

haha what
but yeah actually
mock trial with tom wambsgans

Well I know the actor for his own past roles. Ripper st and Spys and things.

the british lineage “peeps” out sometimes in the writing - “sand pit” instead of “sandbox”. raya says “toodle pip” at one point. ironically, but still, it would never occur to an american. a couple of times logan says “my son was ‘across’ that”. granted he’s from scotland but that’s modern office speak he would not have picked up in govan, or wherever he’s supposed to have grown up. kendall says “you’re a twat” to shiv. i wonder what americans make of this stuff. does it sound like exotic rich-person-speak? or it just goes by so fast it slides by? i mean i’m a shameless transatlantician so it suits me fine. but it does stick out to me a little.

the other thing that rings a little wrong about this show, and i know a little about this because my path did briefly intersect with wildly rich people in new york for a couple of years after college, is that none of them were nearly as clever and witty and articulate as the roys are. which is fine, for the record. if they didn’t deploy their sour aggression with such dexterity and aplomb the show would be worth far less. but sort of connected with that, everywhere they go and stay is immaculately tasteful, with excellent lighting. the rich people i knew had no taste. terrible artwork or no artwork. bright overhead lighting. bad cable routing. i realise that “lifestyle porn” is a big draw to the show for a lot of people but i actually think in this case it would make the show stronger to show how tacky and shitty rich people can live.

“i see your thing. it’s good. you’re kinda like a peppy fun-gun set to “milf”, with a lean-in woman-y branding thing that works well with the fitbit moron whatever-people”

children of Brits might come out with some bits of britspeak. Not much excuse for Rhea though.

yeah americans prob wouldnt say any of that stuff but also i did not notice lol

the other thing that rings a little wrong about this show, and i know a little about this because my path did briefly intersect with wildly rich people in new york for a couple of years after college, is that none of them were nearly as clever and witty and articulate as the roys are

I have that feeling even more with Billions, having been an editor for some financial places. If someone there said "Well, you know what Thoreau / Judas Priest / Kennedy says..." the person they're talking to would just stare back blankly.

But, hey, colorful writing is half the entertainment on these shows.

yeah its showbiz mate that old razzle dazzle

Just finished S1--this is the only thread...I mostly hated the first five episodes--between Kendall, Tom, and Greg, I'd never seen so much Method Stammering--but the sixth, the non-confidence vote, was good, the family therapy episode was even better, and overall it eventually drew me in. Near the end of the season finale, I really liked the way they kept the camera on Kendall after he found his way back to the wedding party.

and i just finished s3. what can you say, everybody just nails it

this write-up is pretty good:
https://www.vox.com/culture/22831645/succession-finale-season-3-recap-review-all-the-bells-say-kendall-roman-shiv-tom

it seems like logan was ready to bring roman in and cut out ken and shiv, but it may have only seemed that way, as part of a plot to turn them against each other once he saw they were uniting (with roman being the traditionally weak link) - although by that point he already knew he didn’t need them… so who knows

anyway by the end i was pretty much hating our everyman greg and wanted him to fall flat on his fucking face

yeah, agree that it was great the show didn't lean too much into Greg being this one dimensional comedic light relief but showed his lower stakes yet equally loathsome grifting and scheming. He drifts between a relatable witness to all drama for the viewer early on and being his own brand of untrustworthy, ego driven slimeball. He is family, after all.

Sorry, I'm always going to be behind (and trying to avert my eyes from posts related to later episodes)...In the S2 season opener, Kendall's "I saw their plan, and my Dad's plan is better" mantra made me think of "Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life" from The Manchurian Candidate.

children of Brits might come out with some bits of britspeak. Not much excuse for Rhea though.

― symsymsym, Friday, February 18, 2022 1:44 PM (three days ago)

I can attest that this is true, especially when it comes to insults and especially within the family. So "twat" makes sense, "sand pit" not so much. Not sure if it was the writing or Hunter or both, but I found Rhea an ill-fitting character in general—it may well have been her southern-ness didn't really work with the dialogue.

i really identified with tom.as monstrous of a bully as he is to everyone beneath his station, tom's unbelievably sweet with shiv and it feels real. i've been in relationships where i felt out of my league, out of my depth, where it seemed like something was wanted of me that i couldn't provide, like a certain callousness or coolness that just wasn't in my bag of tricks. when he finally just yells I'M NOT A HIPPIE at her i was like oh man i feel you tom.

In one way--one way only--Logan reminds me of Coach Taylor from Friday Night Lights. Taylor: "Alright, now go on, get the hell out of my office." Logan: "Alright, now go on, fuck off."

i’m not sure what it says about me that the two shows i have binged this hard in recent memory are SUCCESSION and SQUID GAME. both about horrible people being horrible to each other.

'boar on the floor' certainly seems like a game you'd play in england's public schools, or is that off base?

did they mention where the kids went to school/university?