It's like Jaws if everyone worked for Jaws.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 3 April 2023 21:37 (one year ago) link
Man, that whole Kerry & Greg scene. "The arms aren't right"
― groovypanda, Monday, 3 April 2023 21:55 (one year ago) link
lol, I was just going to post that. that whole bit with the guy having to open up his laptop
― kinder, Monday, 3 April 2023 22:02 (one year ago) link
Yeah but obviously he would have just closed the window before connecting to the projector, I mean c'mon.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 3 April 2023 22:05 (one year ago) link
lol i thought the same thing. a rare miss.
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 3 April 2023 22:27 (one year ago) link
"they're fucking jam smears on the highway"
so.. kendall wants to blow the deal up on purpose? matson told him point blank he'd walk away. what's he doing?
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 3 April 2023 22:30 (one year ago) link
youre all needy love sponges…. and im a plant that grows on rocks and lives off insects that die inside of me
― johnny crunch, Monday, 3 April 2023 23:09 (one year ago) link
I guess he wants to mess up Logan / get attention from Logan? Agree it was a little unclear but I feel we have established that Kendall’s daddy issues are capable of inspiring all sorts of self-defeating behaviour
― meat and two vdgg (emsworth), Monday, 3 April 2023 23:12 (one year ago) link
matsen doesnt want to pay more $, why would he say anything other than ill walk whether or not its true?
― johnny crunch, Monday, 3 April 2023 23:20 (one year ago) link
Theorizing that he’s a canny observer of the family dynamic, similar to Nan Pierce, and he’s trying to obliquely create a situation in which he can drive Logan’s asking price down?
― omar little, Monday, 3 April 2023 23:23 (one year ago) link
This is not a show that lends itself to following any specific predictions though to its credit.
― omar little, Monday, 3 April 2023 23:24 (one year ago) link
he seems to have a major moment of realisation on the steps of the subway.
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 3 April 2023 23:27 (one year ago) link
Good lines this whole ep but Roman's beatle simile was out of character. I guess he could have just watched get back on d+ but there's no way that dudes likes rock music.
― kurt schwitterz, Monday, 3 April 2023 23:38 (one year ago) link
i dont think the use of a beatles simile means anything other than roman knows the names of beatles
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 4 April 2023 03:58 (one year ago) link
humanstring cheese
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 4 April 2023 03:59 (one year ago) link
And this was a great line
pic.twitter.com/ZbeMJTULYl— no context succession (@nocontextroyco) April 4, 2023
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 4 April 2023 04:09 (one year ago) link
Yes
I loved the Beatles line. Can totally imagine Roman fruitlessly rubbing one out to a 200-hour Peter Jackson documentary in a hotel room somewhere
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 06:39 (one year ago) link
There's a sog factor
― paolo, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 07:45 (one year ago) link
Ngl I don't really follow all the business stuff. So what do Sandy and Stewie want here?
― paolo, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 07:46 (one year ago) link
Also Connor saying he'd seen karaoke in the movies but nobody ever wanted to do it was quite sad
This is one of my favourite lines of the whole show ever. Every description of Logan in that scene was gold. And his nickel and diming over pizza and people being too slow, OMG, I would be looking for another job so fast if I heard he was going to be doing that all the time (although I did notice that they buy Hammermill paper. They could definitely save some money by buying cheaper own-brand paper).
Loved how fast the kids, especially Roman, were able to shut down Kerry's anchoring ambitions. Sure, they had to throw in some Roy cruelty as well, but they got it done. Unlike Greg, who just made it worse.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 08:07 (one year ago) link
Because unlike the kids he still needs to keep dad sweet!
The scene where Logan makes him mind-read him about Kerry was delicious. "Yes, uh, needs.... ahh? A little more time? Like...... years? Okay."
iirc Sandy and Stewie think Logan is selling to Matson/Gojo too cheaply. They want to form an alliance with the kids that will block the sale at board level unless they get Matson/Gojo to cough up more money. There may be some ulterior motive here that I don't understand but that does make sense on the face of it. If the deal blows up they make nothing, and they are investors, the whole point is to make money. For the kids that's NOT the point, even if Shiv keeps saying it is. The point is to keep fucking with Dad. To make him pay. Literally and figuratively. What I don't get with Kendall is that he seems to have proof that dad isn't lying when he says Matson will walk away if he's squeezed - yet he wants to go ahead with it anyway. ALl in an effort to get back at dad? But if the deal blows up... they can't buy Pierce! I mean yes all the kids are morons. But is Kendall THAT much of a moron?
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 11:12 (one year ago) link
Kendall wants to be seen as succeeding but as we have seen he is ultimately success-averse.
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 4 April 2023 11:17 (one year ago) link
Right. For a second I wasn't sure why he handed it off to Greg, but of course it's so that when it goes wrong (which it was bound to), it's not his fault.
For the kids that's NOT the point, even if Shiv keeps saying it is.
I got the impression from all the lawyer talk that Shiv is worried about money. She's the only one of the kids going through a divorce at the same time that a massive block of money is about to come in, and she specifically mentioned that Logan shafted their mother with the exact lawyers he has now put at Tom's disposal. It seems unlikely, in the end, that Logan will allow Tom to take any of Shiv's money, but I guess neither Tom nor Shiv can be 100% sure that's the case?
― trishyb, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 11:23 (one year ago) link
Poor Tom wouldn't take a dime from Shiv imo. I just feel like with these kids it's not the money, it's what the money represents. In this case, making Dad pay. Although they do seem to say at one point that because they overpaid for Pierce they have to try this gambit.. but Kendall knows as well as anybody can know that it won't work. Not only will they fail to squeeze more juice from the lemon, they won't get the lemon at all.
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 12:08 (one year ago) link
what if ken goes full reject all money and worldly possessions mode? he's been talking very Buddhist lately. not that those things are totally connected but I could see that as one way forward for him
― a (waterface), Tuesday, 4 April 2023 12:15 (one year ago) link
also the Ken and Shiv are so into SHINY OBJECTS it just floors me, and it kills me that Ken took one look at Stewie's #'s and decided to tank the deal. but maybe he's doing that intentionally? I dunno they all seem so dumb except Roman and Connor (who is dumb in other ways)
― a (waterface), Tuesday, 4 April 2023 12:16 (one year ago) link
Logan seemed pretty smart for most of this episode until he asked *checks notes* Roman to be his ATV fire-breather? That is what was happening at the end, right? (In which case, whither Tom?)
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 12:20 (one year ago) link
sorry ATN
I guess I just saw that as a move to break up this alliance of the kids?
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 April 2023 12:41 (one year ago) link
Yeah, it's also what I was trying to say about how Roman dealt with Kerry's ambitions. Quick, cruel, clean, no suggestion that it comes from Logan. That's exactly what Logan wants. Roman doesn't care if other people like him as long as his dad is pleased with him. Whereas Tom wants everyone to like him. He's just not horrible enough. Plus Roman is funny, and we saw at Logan's birthday party how he misses having mean, funny people around him. God, he really is horrible.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 12:49 (one year ago) link
For sure, Roman just does not seem like the guy to do it, like, at all, but I dunno
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 13:08 (one year ago) link
Logan only needs to get one of them to change their vote, right? might as well be lil baby Roman who he can manipulate with the suggestion he thinks Romey might be capable of something
― kinder, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 13:39 (one year ago) link
I couldn't read Kendall's motivations either, other than to see what happens if you piss off based 4chan Swede
― kinder, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 13:41 (one year ago) link
avclub had quite a good recap https://www.avclub.com/succession-review-season-4-episode-2-rehearsal-1850281823
― kinder, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 13:42 (one year ago) link
not sure if people are talking about Roman changing his vote (could totally see that) or running ATN (he could totally do that, he's a scum puppy) but yeah he seems the least worst of the kids in terms of having a good business sense
― a (waterface), Tuesday, 4 April 2023 14:03 (one year ago) link
I actually took Logan at face value. Like there's a chance he thinks Roman can turn ATN into what he wants it to be, vicious and brutal and smarmy etc
Kendall really confused me as well though. But I think maybe at this point he just like setting things on fire and causing damage? Unlike Shiv he knows Matson is serious, and unlike Shiv he probably doesn't really care about def getting the money and running pierce. More important to him to just fuck with dad?
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 14:25 (one year ago) link
^this is my take also
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 4 April 2023 14:26 (one year ago) link
yes that is a great take
― a (waterface), Tuesday, 4 April 2023 14:34 (one year ago) link
Yeah it's a little heartbreaking that Roman actually seems to want to work on something to prove that he can (even if he doesn't care whether it's 'The Hundred' or ATN), when the other siblings are more purely concerned with family politics and grievances.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 April 2023 14:43 (one year ago) link
I'm going to be sad if they make Romey go full brownshirt but I expect that is exactly what will happen
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 14:46 (one year ago) link
who's gonna have the worst crash--my vote is on Kendall
― a (waterface), Tuesday, 4 April 2023 14:51 (one year ago) link
Kendall's gonna OD.
That AV Club article was great.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 15:11 (one year ago) link
in the pre-show recap prior to the episode there was the snip of previous-season Tom saying to Logan that he'd be the one to go to prison and now I think that however this ends, Tom goes to prison and Logan escapes
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Tuesday, 4 April 2023 15:26 (one year ago) link
as I am putting together the question "Is Logan gonna fuck Tom?" I realized I had the answer right in front of me OF COURSE HE WILL
― a (waterface), Tuesday, 4 April 2023 15:53 (one year ago) link
“Famous blue raincoat” was hilarious
― calstars, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 22:34 (one year ago) link
kendall saw something that moved him in his call with lukas but its unclear what it was, very mysterious
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 00:24 (one year ago) link
He saw an open bag of Doritos and Made a mental note to send for some
― calstars, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 00:26 (one year ago) link
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, April 3, 2023 6:05 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
he was already wirelessly connected to the tv logan walks in and he closes the laptop when he reopens it just picks up where he left off
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 00:28 (one year ago) link