HBO's Succession - Season 2 and Beyond

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🧵 “Hall and Murdoch finalized their divorce two months later. (One of the terms of the settlement was that Hall couldn’t give story ideas to the writers on Succession.) Hall told friends she had to move everything out of the Bel Air estate within 30 days and show receipts… https://t.co/ZsiQnl4rLA

— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) April 12, 2023

Wow, what a loser.

unfortunately this was spoiled for me by news outlets before I got a chance to watch, but wow what a ride.

my favorite part was kendall on the phone to his assistant asking for a conference call to be organized with the airplane medicine expert and the best heart doctor in america, and he wants the invite out in the next 2 minutes. 100% chance his assistant was in fact able to organize a call for later that day, and 100% chance that kendall just ignores it.

^^otm

also otm

there’s something about Con, the way Ruck plays him, that i just love so much
he has such a deep well of sadness in him, not even sadness, like, sorrow? melancholy? like charlie brown. but he tries very hard to disguise it & seem very surface & materialistic.
but you always can kind of see it.
i know as a character he’s often comic relief & in general just kind of weird but i think it’s his inherent sadness that i enjoy v much

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, April 11, 2023 11:18 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

you cant talk to the pilot son hes flying the plane

well just make sure he does it right

season 1 feels like a billion years ago, easy to forget that kendall and frank have (had?) an actual mentor/mentee relationship and that frank backed kendall during his takeover attempt

Love when Frank punched the wall of the airplane after Kendall asked to speak to the pilot

there's also this bit when connor first enters the war room where roman awkwardly takes connor's hand to comfort him, it almost looks like roman tripped or something. felt like a really pitch perfect expression of roman feeling guilty that they hadn't told connor until now and trying to overcompensate by being the compassionate brother he never was

Also Roman being skeeved out by physical contact with another human being.

the way Frank talks to/handles Kendall in that gentle fatherly way is so good, knowing that Frank is simultaneously ready to strangle hom

wonder how much of Roman's reactions came from the horror of his final words to Logan being that voicemail.

the horror of realizing that Logan will not, in fact, see you next Tuesday

I wonder if it took time for Armstrong et al to decide whether or not Roman would be on the flight (as Logan had requested of him) rather than be with the siblings at the wedding.

Nice touch that Shiv had been sent some time before to tell Connor that Logan wasn't coming to the wedding but she was just out there making small talk with randoms instead.

Lip balm Tom Wam

I'm on twin track.

Solid episode, hard to follow up the previous one. Kendall up to his same old rhythms

it was def crossed out

but is it better to be on the paper and crossed out than not on the paper at all ...

The ambiguity of it is a perfect inheritance for Kendall — a final sign of acceptance and endorsement from his father, which he craves, but one that still manages to feel provisional and uncertain.

why would he underline, was he just really proud of kendall one day?

lol @ the repeated mentions of 'a piece of paper'. I have wondered at times if Logan had a standing nightly call with his lawyer to update his will based on who was in and out of favor that day, but figured it was much more likely that he just planned on living forever and wouldn't leaving anything official (and of course that's better for the show).

Karl just going all in on Tom was amazing, really underscoring that Logan really was only drawing him closer to fuck with Shiv and that not one other person takes him seriously at all.

It was also payoff for Tom snitching out the three kids' plans at the end of S3. Logan probably respected a guy willing to sell out his own wife.

For sure, just the way Karl absolutely crushed all of his misconceptions about his actual status in less than thirty seconds.

And Tom's last gambit to try and reconnect with Shiv, and her shutting him down despite acknowledging that she has zero friends or family who are really on her side (while being pregnant!), just brutal.

also gotta say, another phenomenal episode

The disparity between Tom and Greg flailing around in this episode was striking, like somehow Greg (even minus the whole "addendum on the piece of paper" thing) has moved even about Tom in the pecking order. Sure, his ingratiating sucking up is still pathetic, but all the dismissals from the family just kind of slide off his back, but Tom looked absolutely pathetic as he worked his way through the kids.

Roman seemed to have a more alt-right undercut than he’s had before, if I haven’t just missed it before now.

Greg’s incessant pandering made me physically uncomfortable lol

Kendall & Frank’s scene was beautiful, so perfect

Marcia will make sure no-one wins, huh

yeah interesting to work out where the play is coming from

good to know you can still secure the big houses with a simple offer and handshake in this day and age. no realtor's fees either

lol stop smiling Sandy

what did he supposedly say? "why is this sex party so depressing?"

we see the execs agree that the document with kendalls name on it should be lost then next thing theyre telling kendall about it, whyd they change their minds whatre they up to

they're too chickenshit to throw it away, come on

Didn't seem to be so much a nefarious plot as much as reading the temperature a bit with regards to each other. Also thought Tom was being a bit clever, trying to play the siblings off one another a bit maybe.

he was clumsily interloping

i think the execs are up to something

kerry’s scene was brutal

Gerri knows where the bodies are buried and if the boys try to fuck her over she’ll start throwing shit at them.

the set designer who stuffed kerry's bag with hum vitamins, a tub of laura mercier powder, and a (now broken) fenty compact as if she recently used logan's credit card during a sephora VIB rouge spree isn't being paid enough

— rachel syme (@rachsyme) April 17, 2023

tbf, Marcia is very likely blowing smoke wrt "nightly intimate conversations", what with her very timely return and all

she's probably been primed to play the grieving widow for years

totally, she is playing the game

Maybe but she disappeared quietly and definitely also knows tons of shit.

> we see the execs agree that the document with kendalls name on it should be lost

Recommend re-watching this scene. I don't think Kendall's name was the thing they were most worried about.

lol why dont you just say yr lil document theory

i think it was frank who looked at it and said something like "I'm not going to let that little princess spoil it", presumably meaning he left something big to Kerry or Shiv

i heard it as "the little princes"

I thought that was just derogatory of Kendall