nice touch that cousin greg had a better take than all the media titans from reading one economist article
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 April 2023 15:06 (one year ago) link
toms was pretty good too tbf
don't bet against the baguette
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Monday, 24 April 2023 15:20 (one year ago) link
"Shiv, we're death-wrestling with ogres."
You're reading documents.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 24 April 2023 15:41 (one year ago) link
and feeling the deal is gonna get fucked up mattson is gonna smell blood― lag∞n, Monday, April 17, 2023 7:58 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink
― lag∞n, Monday, April 17, 2023 7:58 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink
lol
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 24 April 2023 16:24 (one year ago) link
heh
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 April 2023 16:25 (one year ago) link
lol have we ever seen ray and mark before this episode? they were just there as chattel for the kill list right? like a red shirt going down to a planet with kirk and spock
― na (NA), Monday, 24 April 2023 18:04 (one year ago) link
lol I had the exact same thought
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 24 April 2023 18:06 (one year ago) link
same here
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 24 April 2023 18:07 (one year ago) link
best part was frank and karl putting on their compression socks. second best part was frank and karl sitting outside the sauna making fun of everyone else - "hanging in the window like peking duck." i love frank and (especially) karl.
― na (NA), Monday, 24 April 2023 18:07 (one year ago) link
I also loved that Mattson called Frank with the offer, knowing how much the Grays wanted the deal and their golden parachutes.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 24 April 2023 18:17 (one year ago) link
every interaction between tom and shiv since they decided to get divorced is like celestial writing
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 24 April 2023 19:36 (one year ago) link
your earlobes are thick and chewy like barnacle meat
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 April 2023 19:37 (one year ago) link
my impression was the waystar folks looked hopelessly provincial and inwardly focused. the episode was a bit frustrating though maybe that was intentional because the roy kids didn't really have a clear sense of purpose - deal / no deal; work together / undermine each other; be independent / stay home, the world is too scary
― that's not my post, Monday, 24 April 2023 19:39 (one year ago) link
it was genuinely unsettling when Tom first reached out to flick Shiv's ear
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 24 April 2023 19:40 (one year ago) link
that whole interaction was so funny they were acting like little kids
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 April 2023 19:41 (one year ago) link
oh it definitely was, i was laughing when she was kicking rocks on his shoes, but it was initially really menacing when he reached for her (esp with the audience knowing what he presumably does not)
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 24 April 2023 19:44 (one year ago) link
I uh may have been a little altered but I was intently watching the opening credits last night and kept thinking "those are the real Roys, these morose weird children alone in their decadent little world"
the adult versions are simulacra
― mh, Monday, 24 April 2023 19:45 (one year ago) link
Yeah thought as the episode started the waystar folks seemed like rubes compared to Mattson and co, sharks from NYC becoming minnows elsewhere. Not particularly convinced that Mattson will emerge on top though; there are wild cards out there.
― omar little, Monday, 24 April 2023 19:50 (one year ago) link
i know tom is supposed to be flailing after logan's death but they're really painting him as a totally incompetent boob in these episodes, just clumsily trying to glom on to anyone who could potentially be beneficial to his career. i don't think i love it, he's a goober but he's not a moron
― na (NA), Monday, 24 April 2023 19:54 (one year ago) link
are we sure hes not
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 April 2023 20:00 (one year ago) link
lol @ the idea of IKEA-ing Fox News though.
Also, Shiv doing coke while pregnant.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 24 April 2023 20:07 (one year ago) link
I don't think she did though! I thought she just picked up the vial, put the top back on and absently played with it for a bit.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 24 April 2023 20:08 (one year ago) link
Ah good catch
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 24 April 2023 20:10 (one year ago) link
I enjoy a bit of cringe but man, Tom at the table of Swedes took the biscuit. Remember when we were mocking creased Carhartts ughhh
― kinder, Monday, 24 April 2023 20:17 (one year ago) link
She wants to put him in a kilt like a fucking Bay City Roller
― groovypanda, Monday, 24 April 2023 20:51 (one year ago) link
^ lol'd at that and Roman's "OK Popeye.."
― nashwan, Monday, 24 April 2023 21:16 (one year ago) link
Kendall writing MORON and saying “This sounds like drama,” the three fucketeers…a lot to like in this one
― Everybody's gonna get what they got coming (gyac), Monday, 24 April 2023 21:33 (one year ago) link
lol have we ever seen ray and mark before this episode?
At least one of them - the one who possibly not uncoincidentally looks and acts a lot like Gerard from Peep Show - has been in one or two episodes before. I think the Boar on the Floor episode?
― nate woolls, Monday, 24 April 2023 21:41 (one year ago) link
yeah he was the one Logan nearly had pissing in a bucket
― nashwan, Monday, 24 April 2023 21:45 (one year ago) link
poor ray or mark
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 April 2023 21:55 (one year ago) link
pretty sure it was Ray
― nashwan, Monday, 24 April 2023 22:02 (one year ago) link
poor ray
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 April 2023 22:03 (one year ago) link
so difficult to stop sending your frozen blood at peak "it's a joke"
― Enumerated funks of Walsh, Joe. (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, April 24, 2023 10:39 AM (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
^this
― johnny crunch, Monday, 24 April 2023 23:28 (one year ago) link
hes maybe lying about the blood sitch idk
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 April 2023 23:49 (one year ago) link
He seems pretty nutso
― a (waterface), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 01:28 (one year ago) link
And yet outsmarted Tweedle Dumb and Dumber
nah mattson’s so completely a-social he doesn’t even know how to lie about shit like that. and “shocking truthtelling” is his alpha game. love shiv’s 3 point planpoint 1: uh stop sending your blood to people?
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 02:37 (one year ago) link
maybe you could stop sending a frozen block of your blood to people
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 02:57 (one year ago) link
why was shiv being nice to tom when in their immediately precedent scene together she was at his throat? the only consequent thing that happened is the increased offer, but even in that scene she expected it to go through?
― sean gramophone, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 03:12 (one year ago) link
ep made me wonder if Mattson has things worse than frozen blood, and he wants to own the most news to control the narrative.
― Enumerated funks of Walsh, Joe. (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 03:20 (one year ago) link
with ATN carve out removed and Shiv threatening Cyd (via Mattson?), my biggest swing is Cyd has some dirt?
― Enumerated funks of Walsh, Joe. (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 03:23 (one year ago) link
or maybe Mattson buys it, the boys ran it for 1 week lol, and Shiv backs out of Pierce bc Mattson makes her head of the waystar royco part of royjo
― Enumerated funks of Walsh, Joe. (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 03:37 (one year ago) link
Every scene of SUCCESSION:Kendall: What’s the play, the vibe? Marco Polo titfucking us around the Cape of Good Hope?Shiv: I mean…sure, if your nose is sewn onto the back of your ballsack(scolding look)Roman: (raises eyebrows)Looks like we’re takin a looong whiff of taint— Kristi Yamaguccimane (@wapplehouse) April 24, 2023
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 04:32 (one year ago) link
they are not serious people
― meat and two vdgg (emsworth), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 10:48 (one year ago) link
― sean gramophone, Monday, April 24, 2023 10:12 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
just spitballing but it seems like she likes to be the dominant one in their relationship. obv she was mad that he helped logan but also that made tom more powerful than her. then since logan died tom has been flailing but so has shiv, she doesn't really have much power right now either. but now she feels like her influence with matsson is what pushed the deal through, she's feeling powerful again, higher up than tom.
― na (NA), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 13:04 (one year ago) link
basically as long as she feels like she's higher up than tom, she feels more sympathetic towards him.
― na (NA), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 13:05 (one year ago) link
Excellent read
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 13:13 (one year ago) link
Maybe Shiv or even Tom on her behalf will end up orchestrating something with ATN like breaking a legit scandal that costs Mencken votes on election day, enough for him to lose and be tarnished. Shiv is then caught on whether to take the credit or deflect blame onto Tom but ends up feeling and/or acting like she alone decided the election. Something like that might be a fun outcome for her character but Mencken's lack of appearance so far this season suggests the election storyline isn't going to be that pivotal.
― nashwan, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 13:14 (one year ago) link
There at least four different outlets doing Succession recap power rankings, and three of them agree that Shiv is top dog among the sibs this week. (Vulture gives a slight edge to Roman, tho as much by accident as anything.)
https://hunterharris.substack.com/p/succession-power-rankings-hanna-barberahttps://www.theringer.com/succession/2023/4/25/23696454/succession-season-4-episode-5-power-rankings-matsson-shivhttps://www.avclub.com/succession-season-4-episode-5-power-rankings-1850369739https://www.vulture.com/article/succession-kill-list-power-rankings-season-4-episode-5.html
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 13:47 (one year ago) link