HBO's Succession - Season 2 and Beyond

lol tom

rewatching for the (mumbled) time

i tried to be nerdy & cool this time & watch objectively and admire the construction & figure out how early they were driving various story elements but it’s so easy to get sucked into the scene drama / dialogue i’m just going to be uncool & laugh along like a poor

most shows don’t hold up this well for me

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— no context succession (@nocontextroyco) September 13, 2022

Rewatched the Kendall's 40th Birthday episode a bit ago, and it really is so perfectly made.

I really want to push Nate out of the airlock, what a heinously limp character

anyone seen THE MENU? thought it kinda sucked. while watching it I was thinking it’d make more sense as a three-episode prestige limited series on HBO or netflix or something, so it made a lot of sense when I learned that the director is the succession guy

Peter Friedman, who plays Frank, is excellent in She Said as Lanny Davis.

i have not watched the menu but many people are saying it sucked

I loved it overall, good fun.

the menu feels v divisive...wonder if ill love it...

basically it’s good if you go into it with the expectation that it’ll be a fun comedy-horror with good performances. if you’re expecting a smart satire you’re going to be disappointed.

Season 4 will be the final season, reveals Jesse Armstrong:
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/the-end-of-succession-is-near

jeremy strong annoyed everyone into ending the show

ok well then start coming up w a show to get me over the end of this one bc i will NOT be ok

they should do five seasons why not thats a normal amount i think they will do five

i feel like they had 5 in them but if this season kicks ass front to back then good for them

ugh they should def do a fifth season, especially since season 1 felt like such a trial run

I haven’t read this book but I’m mad at the author for not having written two sequels 😡

Really enjoyed rewatching s4 over the last week. Wonder if we'll see *Jeryd Mencken* again in the new one.

u wot now

nashwan posts from the future

I swear most of HBO shows are all about a bunch of rich aholes. World is already ruled by these creeps and I just can’t put to watch shows about that class of people.

But that's what makes the show so great and so compelling. It shows these people as greedy, flawed and yet still human and sometimes even likeable.

I'm not going to try to convince earlnash, I know exactly how he feels and it's why I put off watching this for so long. I know other people who feel the same way. In my case I'm not sure why I decided to give it a shot. I'm glad I did because it is extraordinary but it is also extremely grim and cringe and incredibly entitled people act terrible towards each other and it's perfectly defensible to decide you don't want to spend your evening in vibes like that

its just so good and the ruling class is certainly worth examining especially if youre mean to them, and fwiw succession is really about the ruling part it gets into the politics and mechanisms of the situation where something like white lotus is just about rich people on vacation but theyre not necessarily the ones trying to influence elections and so forth

here we go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3D3ewle7XY

eeeeeeeee!

finally, some television

Yes!!!

looks p fuckin wild

yeeeeahhhhhhh

Trailer has more helicopters than a season of Blue Thunder*

*or Airwolf, choose your reference of choice.

stoked 4 death wrestling ogres

100% at least one of these guys is dying (hopefully all of them right?!)

I love the way I can already tell each episode will have featured multiple double crosses and double-double-crosses by the time the credits roll.

I was like "oh yeah I guess I'll probably watch this" and then Greg said "terrifyingly moseying" and I instantly remembered how much I need this show in my life

March 26

Because my memory is dreadful, I am rewatching season three in preparation for season four. Once again, this scene stands out as an absolute gem, I think because people on this show so rarely say what they actually think without jargon or jokes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgTtQ7lfr4g

we've been doing likewise, and that scene as well as Ken's dinner show-down with Logan in Tuscany are really excellent for exactly that reason

if only kendall were as good at recognizing the always getting fucked never getting fucked pattern as tom

see also Jerri's "how does it suit my interests" lines to Roman

the kids have no game

Double-breasted cardigan with brass buttons seemed off for Logan.

the disgusting brothers

this is not a prefuck party

sidebar: can i have mondale plz

substack meets masterclass meets the economist meets the new yorker

Is shiv the saddest Roy?

Should have clarified: Roy kids.

Shiv > Ken > Rome on the sad meter atm.

Shiv's the saddest Roy *right now*. . . who knows. What a hilarious show.

Mondale could just jump over that pen if he wanted, probably just staying in there out of ennui.

Loved Nan’s feigned disgust at talking money, such a rich person control thing.