What? You think you’re more likley to be spoiled on the events of Succession than to be aware the show is called SUCCESSION? I’m obviously confused
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FYI the guy who directed this episode also directed one of last years best films, The Menu.
Lol wat? The Menu was a steaming pile of garbage. I went in with such high hopes. Maybe that was the problem.
You’re both wrong. The Menu was pretty decent.
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If that were the original opinion, I’d have let it slide.
A steaming pile of garbage with near universal critical acclaim. 🤷
Not sure how you’re defining “critical acclaim”, but if you check out metacritic, it seems quite a bit short of “near universal critical acclaim”.
Never seen The Menu, but steaming piles of garbage can have near universal acclaim (Shape of Water, The Fablemans, Licorice Pizza).
I watched ~5 minutes of this and was very confused.
Yeah, this too.
Man alive ep 5 season 2 of Barry is amazing, the fight with Ronny ep
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gf and I just started ‘Queen’s Gambit’ and it is just right now that I am realizing that the same girl from The Menu is the girl from that show! I don’t know how we missed that before
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Severance
8/10
Started off slow, too slow, but I don’t think I’ve been tense for an entire episode like I was the last one. Good directing by Ben Stiller
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Succesion
Haven’t done a rewatch and maybe not remembering how their relationship was at this moment. And it was always weird. But it seems like Gerri was someone that Roman felt somewhat close to and comfortable with. As much as he was able.
And having Logan’s last act as a father be making Roman fire her. Ruin the relationship to the point where she didn’t at all try and comfort him when he told her he was really sad. Was just a perfect way to encapsulate the damage he did to his kids.
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Yeah, the money on the show is allllll out of whack and it’s been pointed out before.
Take, for example, the scene with Paulie and Chrissy after Chrissy gets made (I think everyone itt is past this one now). After Paulie tells Chrissy that he’s letting him take over his bookie operation, he then informs Chrissy that he has to kick up “six grand a week; now that may be a little, or a lot. It’s all up to you.” $6000 a week! That’s over $300k a year Paulie is going to be getting, JUST from Christopher, JUST from that one betting parlor! Meanwhile, Paulie’s apartment looks like the shithole I lived in when I was in college, and he’s asking for a sit-down with Ralphie over some relatively small amount of money because he needs it for his “long-range plannin’.”
There are several other instances too, like Tony, Zellman and the other guy arguing over what basically comes down to like $7,000 because the crackheads squatting in the houses is screwing up their HUD deal, as if $7,000 could or should matter to the boss of the family; or Tony and Christopher getting into a shooting match with the Vipers over a few cases of wine? Stuff like that was hilarious, obviously, but when you think about it, it doesn’t really “fit” given Tony’s stature within the family. This is low-level stuff that should not concern him at all, and yet he obsesses over it. And don’t even get me started on the vitamins…
Don’t forget the money paid to each person (like the $6k a week you mention) has to be spread across tons of people above and below that person. The mob is like a socialist structure in that sense.
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Well according to Paulie in that scene, all he has to worry about is kicking his points up to the skippa. So I assume that means he keeps 90% of the $6k, really more because, as Silvio also explains at some point, nobody kicks up their full percentage.
But we get more clarity later on about Paulie and his finances when they go and visit Beansie in S6.