Succession is getting really fucking grim. As my wife said, major props to the show for all the characters being consistently horrible in their own way. Watching Kendall is physically painful for me.
The ending of the latest episode was gut wrenching. That actor is killing it.
Succession is boring. Season 1 Randall makes a play to succeed his father but is ultimately undone but his bumbling oafishness. Now Season 3, Randall makes play to suceed his father but is currently being undone by is oafishness. Kind of says something when the secondary and terciery characters are the most interesting.
The actor playing Randall does have an amazing ability to spout what a dumb person would think a CEO would say for like 10 minutes straight with so much intensity that if it were someone else youâd roll your eyes, but you 100% buy that heâs a guy whoâs trying, but who have no clue what heâs doing.
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I donât think itâs bad. I do think it being Americaâs favorite show speaks more to the depravity of America than it does the quality of the show.
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His name is Kendall.
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[Roman voice] Is it though? [/Roman voice]
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My bad
My number 1 favourite thing about succession is that none of the characters have ever done any work on the show. You start out thinking obviously the kids are feckless idiots but theyâre being held up by the flunkies and Logan but Logan doesnât understand his own business and Geri, Karl, none of the rest of them have ever done a single bit of work. They are all fighting over the surplus value but the value itself is just generated on an algorithmic basis, no need for input from human beings, things are fully automated. The only people working are the image consultants and the psycho âcleanerâ dude.
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Thats kinda the point, isnt it?
Thought by now everyone was on board with cut to black = death. Feel like Chase shouldnât have bothered to explain it for those who still didnât get it.
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It has to be kind of embarrassing for him. Sure, it was clear to many people, but it was obviously unclear to many more. And I donât think it was his intention to be confusing.
He seems like a real drag, tbh.
Tony Soprano didnât die until Gandolfini died and closed off the possibility of a sequel.
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I think he did get screwed by HBO refusing to air 60 seconds of blackness. That would have made it 100% clear immediately, but still think it shouldnât have been that confusing.
I agree he didnât intend to make if confusing - he laid out so many hints in the final episode and prior episodes. I also think it was an amazing finale, especially the way it was shot to show Tonyâs death from his POV (i.e. just cutting to black) and how that mirrored his earlier conversation with Bobby about how death works.
He clearly wanted people to think about the finale and then realize how clever he was, but when some people donât want to do that and claim if it didnât happen on screen it didnât happen, he shouldnât have bothered to spell it out for them.
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He killed the audience in that sequence, not Tony.
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i am not with you guys on succession being awesome. itâs kinda like pulp reading for me. in between shows that my partner agrees to watch with me. but cameronâs speech at lecterâs funeral is GOAT television of all time.
Succession haters are so weird.
Jeremy Strong is delivering a pantheon level performance as âRandallâ. Pretty sure heâs the reigning best actor Emmy winner as well.
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Midnight Mass had way too much dialogue for me and not enough stuff happening. Too many scenes with just two character telling each other about their life though metaphorical malarkey. I liked Hill House and Bly Manor
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What the hell?
This new series about League of Legends called Arcane just came out and already has an IMDB 9.4 after 4k+ reviews. Either itâs a GOAT level series or the fanboys are fanboying hard.
Either way, Iâll give it a shot. Sucks that only 3 episodes were released, so youâll have to wait a week to continue.