Succession
#Succession
silver swallow
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you and cz he said 
tbh honestly one of my favorite parts about succession is that i can't easily predict what happens and that is so true of this season. All I know is it's definitely going to be a tragedy
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snow stump
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LOL La times rude af
spark tendon
The after the episode is so, so worth it on this one
cyan whale
Holy fucking shit
The entire show I’m just like, no way this has to be a ruse
Such a ballsy play by the writers
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blissful tusk
I’m hyped that there are 7 episodes left. Thunderdome incoming
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spark tendon
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I think about this meme every time I’m explaining the GoJo stuff
snow stump
if you ask me, his name was crossed out!!!
snow stump
it’s just genius bc it’s true that logan would absolutely go nuclear and chose the defamation route so kendall really is like his father, i’m sick!
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Kendall becoming a killer
Also I’m sorry Kendall is my favorite character
Also Marcia is such a bitch lol
She had some of the meanest lines of the entire episode
snow stump
Brutal but amazing
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Marcia and her son are like the only people besides Carl who know about the thing with Kendall, really
I wonder if it’s going to bite him
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Literally all of succession https://twitter.com/theashleyray/status/1647783980073377793?s=46&t=ZswbdbCUz9pOcUl2JPAmZA
silver canopy
damn marcia is an absolute beast i kind of love it
that last convo between kendall and hugo has me going feral shit is crazy
silver canopy
it was so fresh too. literally had just admitted to him about it
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I think Logan would have done it. Would Murdoch? Absolutely
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We haven’t even talked about shiv being pregnant 👀
silver canopy
i wonder what she's gonna do
snow stump
someone pointed out that Logan said Kendall wasn’t a killer and his initials are KLR, dunno if that’s intentional or not but so good
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I feel like Succession is not the type to give anyone a happy ending, especially Kendall, but it would be pretty funny if he basically becomes Logan and it was there all in his initials
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Logan Roy isn’t a person, it’s a title
snow stump
A-N he playing, playing like a pro see 
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https://twitter.com/beebabs/status/1648059362425081856?s=46&t=X8GRE64kXWK2NvUSX7tDPw just in case anybody still on the fence about succession wanders in here
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every item has the HBO logo plastered on it too
rip
this is the only good one and it's fuckin redbubble lookin quality
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It's such a miss
It would be SO GOOD if it was just waystar royco
Like in universe stuff is what people want
Someone posted that they would have bought a tote bag that said "ludicrously capacious"
Real swing and a miss on merch
It all says like "SUCCESSION HBO" on it
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I do think them doing a vest is funny af though
blissful tusk
Why couldn’t they make the stuff just say waystar royco
I guess it’s time to find an embroidery
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i guess for the same reason you wouldn't want to buy a sweater that just says fox news
lol
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LMAO a classic
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@snow stump the merch they should be making https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRTrhCxW/
snow stump
OMG yes I need all of these ASAP
I need HBO to lean into the camp of their merch!! Know your audience!!
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Late to succession but the call back of Kendall listening to rap in the car from literally episode 1!!!!
Too good
THE COMPRESSION SOCKS
silver canopy
the start of the episode tripped me out for a second i thought i started from episode 1 again LOL
shiv is officially in her villain era
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Seriously she is in her villain era
snow stump
Meanwhile, with Mattson
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chiv has always been and will always be this
and somehow will still always come up on the bottom
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Hahahahaa YES
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that's why it looked so familiar
the resort they shot this episode at is where they shot Ex Machina
spark tendon
Mattson calling Rome & Ken a tribute band was 🔥
silver canopy
the writing has always been fantastic but it’s really shining through this season
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blissful tusk
i wonder if shiv gonna spill the beans to tom
snow stump
Honestly this is the most interesting Tom and shiv have ever been to me
As a “couple” anyway
kindred oar
the morons poster was incredible
spark tendon
Love the ending
Ken at his highest point, face up in the ocean versus his lowest point, face down in a pool
They’ve been very on the nose with callbacks this season and I love it
Even though it was more a dig at story living, I thought of this when Matsson said "land cruise"
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Also:
How am I supposed to follow this? He just promised them eternal life
What a line
kindred oar
regardless of what Kendall's presentation was, i'm not sure why he thought the Oprah route without actually giving out anything was a good idea
maybe i don't want to be an ATN citizen, Tom
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I was getting a little bummed when it seemed like the brothers were going to totally prove themselves to be not serious people
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silver canopy
the television event of a lifetime tbh
snow stump
Ebba should just get to kill Matsson for funsies I think
fleet ember
jesus fucking christ this Chiv/Tom scene
Tell me even a month ago that Tom is the person in this show I feel the worst for I wouldn't have believed you
snow stump
sarah and matthew better get those emmys!!
snow stump
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Mother's day airing..... || baby death ??? ||
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kindred oar
oh wow i missed matsson pointing at himself in the background when connor says "there's one person here who doesn't think i'm a joke"
just a funny goofy little detail
fleet ember
Man, this episode is doing a fantastic job of making me actually hate every single character
outstanding
god this fucking show
snow stump
I always pegged Roman as some apolitical rich dude who doesn’t care as long as he gets to rub elbows with the winner but guess my read on THAT was wrong
So good
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Shiv always tries to play both sides and takes the L
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Greg's "no!" when he is being asked to be the coffee boy again is such a good deliery
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Jesus, it really did feel like revisiting trauma.
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kindred oar
I always pegged Roman as some apolitical rich dude who doesn’t care as long as h...
i think that's still accurate though; he just is super pro-mencken because he's hyper focused precisely on getting what he wants here, which is to get the deal blocked and be the top dog, which kendall admits he feels threatened by
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Did a good job of reminding us that Roman is the guy who ripped up a million dollar check in front of a child
kindred oar
if jimenez would block the deal, i would love to see roman attempt to be buddy buddy with them (and fail bc the way he does business does not mesh lol)
snow stump
i think that's still accurate though; he just is super pro-mencken because he's ...
oh yeah i fully believe that everyone on this show is motivated solely by self interest (sarah snook herself even said that shiv only got 'lucky' in this sense that her self interests managed to align with her slightly more progressive than the rest of the roy family views) but roman was also making a lot of very off color remarks (which, in all fairness, he's been doing throughout the show lol) which reminds the audience that oh yeah, he actually believes in this awful stuff too
anyway didn't expect succession to take me back to the hells and horrors of 2016
kindred oar
yeah i guess i didn't quite get the vibe that he genuinely believes any of it because he sort of genuinely feels like the asshole who says shitty things for a laugh or to rile people up and get under people's skins as we've seen so much... not that it matters because ultimately he is supporting whatever mencken is spewing into their world
("genuinely feels" that way as opposed to the people who use that as a defense to hide their shitty views)
snow stump
which is also very true tbh
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i think that's still accurate though; he just is super pro-mencken because he's ...
I think it’s more than just the getting the deal blocked. He wants the power of having the president on speed dial. And Kendall feels threatened by the Roman / Mencken relationship.
kindred oar
yeah which is why i mentioned that he ultimately sees himself at the very top alone, same sort of one head one crown mentality (and the ep 9 preview suggests that too i think)
i thought shiv would call nate and tell him something like "soooo i'm supposed to ask you to consider blocking the deal but if ken asks, say no" or something but lol
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tbh hope roman epically flames out at the funeral
snow stump
ready for that honestly
kindred oar
i kinda wondered if ep 8 was supposed to be shiv getting torn apart, then maybe roman in ep 9, and then kendall in ep 10 or something
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Also very Sorpanos-y in that it reminded us these are not people we should be rooting for
smoky flax
Except for Tom is clearly the hero who’s done no wrong
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true, the man doing coke on election night has done no wrong
kindred oar
i'm fearing some sort of greg win at the end
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The Greg and Jess scene at the end was really something two
Very upstairs/downstairs
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i kinda wondered if ep 8 was supposed to be shiv getting torn apart, then maybe ...
My current expectation is that Kendall will be the last sibling standing, but he will realize that his victory was completely pyrrhic / hollow.
snow stump
kieran culkin emmy NOW!!!
kindred oar
this is an episode, my god
kindred oar
then i am the droid you are looking for
hugo is such a clown
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I feel like they’re turning Kendall into Logan and he will be all alone
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Shiv is honestly such an idiot, I’m sorry
Like just go be a billionaire with your baby
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Or we get a game of thrones ending and Greg ends up on top
snow stump
Oh yeah fully getting the vibe that matsson is gonna screw over shiv
And if Kendall is going full Logan, he’ll eat the deal if it means staying CEO
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kindred oar
isn't the one in the center greg's mom?
i think that's why the thought didn't occur to me
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it is, they get into it in the comments, but it's still an interesting thought
kindred oar
it wouldn't be surprising
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this is wrong because "big" and "shoes" aren't on there
coarse ridge
Ok NOW im caught up
Toms gonna win
No wait, Romans gonna win somehow and the kid from the first episode is gonna find some obscure loophole and now Romans gotta give it all to him. Im gonna lock this one in at 100% confirmed
blissful tusk
Most predictable outcome is that Kenny turns into Logan and cuts out Roman and Shiv
snow stump
That’s my expectation
coarse ridge
Thats too obvious though. Like it makes the most sense but idk
It cant be the person you most suspect or least suspect and the person i most medium suspect is Tom rn tbh
Although who has a better story than Greg The Egg
Maybe I missed something, but officially, has the election actually been called?
snow stump
I don’t think so? This season is going in “real time” so in actuality, it’s only been like a day or two since the election and probably less than a week since logan passed
kindred oar
yeah there wouldn't be any "official" call until electors cast votes in december; seems like ATN and other right wing/alt right media orgs are the only ones to have called it for mencken
i think ATN is talking about votes being retallied or whatever near the beginning of the episode as shiv and roman have it on
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@spark tendon https://twitter.com/mereschmere/status/1661606207591940096?s=46&t=ZswbdbCUz9pOcUl2JPAmZA
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Tom wishes he was as important as a dead Logan
coarse ridge
I keep flipping from, ITS TOM, to ITS OBVIOUSLY KENDALL, to GREG POISONED TOM AND HAS ENOUGH DIRT ON EVERYONE AND IS MALLEABLE ENOUGH THAT ITS HIM, to ITS NONE
Sunday cant come soon enough
snow stump
Though I’d say more that Tom (and the whole Roy family) poisoned Greg
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Maybe I missed something, but officially, has the election actually been called?
very much no.
blissful tusk
It cant be the person you most suspect or least suspect and the person i most me...
I too subscribe to this way of thinking and I agree about Tom. He skipped Logan’s funeral to work, which is what Logan would have done. He is serious ppl
Best thing I’ve seen all day tbh
smoky flax
I love it so much
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Usc I want to get into your which park would the kids be debate
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https://twitter.com/yourgirlkath/status/1662604123315765248?s=46&t=X8GRE64kXWK2NvUSX7tDPw this made my brain go brrrrrrrrr
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i'm not ready for this
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Last succession Sunday 
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95 minute episode
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IM READDDDDYYYYY
coarse ridge
Why is the ps5 app not updating
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🫡🫡🫡
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||not Greg with the fucking translate app||
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Why is the ps5 app not updating<:ppMulanHands:756792379310080042>
Are you trying to use an hbo app of the new “max” app?
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I hate Shiv
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Like || even if you hate Kendall why would you give the vote to Mattson who just fucked her over?? Basically gave up any chance of the family having the company. I would not bet on Tom’s unborn child ||
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||100% this was chiv’s plan entirely||
||she still ends up closer to power than she would have been||
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|| no, I think it’s after the sandy and sandy convo. She’s shaken by something they said and then when they vote they say “we want out”. I think she realizes she wants out ||
|| idk I think you have a better control of power thru Kendall. Tom has fucked then time and time again including his betrayal in season 3. No way their marriage makes it ||
Lmao that end shot with them was like the end of gone girl freal
snow stump
we’ll always have the kitchen scene at least
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I really thought Kendall was going to kill himself
I don’t believe anything shiv said in that room with Kendall and Roman.
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Are we spoiler tagging? Just to be safe ||Tom was the person I most medium expected||
||swish||
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I really thought Kendall was going to kill himself
If Colin wasn’t in that shot i think that was the express idea, him being there makes it murkier
coarse ridge
I really thought he was just gonna pull a gun and cut to black or something
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Are we spoiler tagging? Just to be safe ||Tom was the person I most medium expec...
||Chiv nailed it, Matson didn’t want a CEO, he wanted an empty suit||
||and the only emptier suit than Tom would be Greg||
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I know and they’ve repeatedly shown him with water
So I really thought he would jump
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||Chiv nailed it, Matson didn’t want a CEO, he wanted an empty suit||
||i was always between Tom and Greg. Tom was the realistic choice and Greg was the HOLY FUCKING SHIT HOW DID THEY PULL THAT OFF||
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It’s been recurrent theme for him
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It’s been recurrent theme for him
I’d 100% believe they had a draft version of this at one point where he does
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Absolutely
Lmao that’s next season freal
I would have liked another season there’s a lot of loose ends but I also understand the sentiment of it running it’s course
snow stump
Yeah it felt weird to use the water motif so frequently in the episode and then not do very much with it?
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Like, you could make an entire show about Tom and shivs relationship alone
snow stump
Lmao can we get one more episode pleaseeeee
coarse ridge
Kendall turning into an actual whiny baby was amazing
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Especially being reminded about the fact that he literally killed a guy by leaving him to drown
coarse ridge
Fuck that guy
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I don’t believe shiv cares he killed the guy lol
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Oh definitely not
snow stump
But I will say that the scene with kendall crushing roman into his shoulder got a very visceral reaction from me
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Im shocked Roman ended up my favorite of the 3. I guess of all of them, Connors my most favorite
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I wanted to see Kendall turn into Logan tbh
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This is how tabitha can still win
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Lol Tom putting the sticker on Gregs head, what they were doing at the house with Logans stuff. Greg thought he was making some machiavellian play but hes just human furniture.
Greg still ends on a high note I guess.
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Connor wins. Nice houses, probably gets to stay with a beautiful wife, billion dollars, doesnt really give a fuck about the company.
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Well, a beautiful wife who despises him and is only there for the money
Oh hey she’s Marcia 
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The spit coming out of Kendall’s mouth
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Oh hey she’s Marcia <:ppRapLaugh:756792377443876944>
Dont you dare compare them. Marcia is not a talented playwright
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God Im reading reactions and a lot of people hate this
Did people not realize Kendall isnt a good guy?
kindred oar
it's a little bizarre that people were pulling for kendall so bad
before even the end of the episode, i did ask myself "damn are they all just going to ignore the fact that ken killed someone before"
snow stump
https://twitter.com/lanikaps/status/1663012217858424833?s=46&t=X8GRE64kXWK2NvUSX7tDPw can’t get over how this person called it
kindred oar
someone on reddit was like "i can't believe ken didn't go to the roof and fall off to be seen in the bg of the press event/photoshoot" and it's like come on
this show would never do that
snow stump
There was never going to be a true “winner” because that’s never what this show was about and there was never going to be a nicely wrapped ending
I think it was a very fitting ending to the show that was never about giving you what you wanted
kindred oar
yeah it suits it very well
damn i did not expect this tiktok to suddenly talk about some old mlb player lmao
silver canopy
goddamn that was the most intense final 20 minutes of anything like ever
what a run
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God Im reading reactions and a lot of people hate this
Like how can anyone hate this finale? It was a fucking masterpiece. I was afraid they weren’t going to land this season and instead they crafted one of the all time great series finales.
kindred oar
it's because they're not serious people
and they chose to root for one of the siblings or they hang onto this idea that what shiv did was out of character lol
"i am the eldest boy" is going to stick with me more than anything
silver canopy
||the tomgreg ship|| has docked hard LMAO
seems like anyone upset with the finale was just rooting waaaay too hard for one specific person
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Lmao I was kind of hoping for something a little more tragic based on all the literary references they’ve made throughout the show
silver canopy
i think seeing that person in the final minute just take in what just happened was true tragedy
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Like I guess if you consider shiv to be desdemona she is still murdered by Tom being CEO looool
Roman ordering Geri’s drink and smiling lol
silver canopy
oh that’s what that was
i was trying to think what was the significance of that scene
kindred oar
oh lmao i didn't get that either
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I mean I think he’s finally free tbh
kindred oar
i was just like ok he's at a bar
silver canopy
based kendall
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Just gonna be real my pride would never allow me to give matson what he wants if I was shiv lmao
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also roman’s little beach house outfit was so funny to me like 😭😭 these are not serious people
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I loved the end of the beach house when her husband says “what a fucking waste of time” all these people want is money reeeeee
kindred oar
she doesn't win if mencken loses and she doesn't get the place to herself
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Yeah except Connor might be staying 😂😂
silver canopy
can’t wait for the succession spin off a decade or so from now
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Also haha they really made it definitive they retconned Roman’s kids
All the talk of kids and they never mention his
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Yeah he has kids in the first episode and maybe more in s1?
It was very quickly dropped
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During the HBO hit's 2018 pilot episode, Roman had a wife and child who are never seen again on the series. When asked about the disappearance of Roman's family members, the 40-year-old actor shared, "Not his kid. Not his wife, either."
"It was in the pilot, and after it was picked up, it was his girlfriend, and she had a child," he told Variety. "I'm wearing my real wedding band in the episode."
YEAH I DON'T REMEMBER THIS AT ALL
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Writers said Roman isn’t a daddy he needs a daddy
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"I was excited about the idea of having a kid, and the [character] was like 7 or 8," he explained. "It was a little disappointing, but I think the idea was that it would just give [more] freedom to play with [my] character."
Culkin added that the decision furthermore allowed producers to explore Roman's sexuality.
it was for the best lol
silver canopy
about that, i liked the ambiguity of that subject
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I mean I think Roman is just super immature hard to picture him having kids
I think he was originally written as more like overtly cruel
And calculated
But I think Kieran was more playful so they pivoted
silver canopy
he brought out something in the character
blissful tusk
The back and forth was getting so annoying
When Ken got in the elevator, I thought he was going ||to the roof to jump. ||
The show got a fitting ending and I can’t wait to watch it again front to back in a few years. This season for some reason seemed quite exhausting.
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But I think Kieran was more playful so they pivoted
And thank god they did
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coarse ridge
Logan Roy will return in Avengers Secret Wars
Serious question, does their mom even like them anymore?
She KNOWS whats going on and still has her husbands friend pitch them on some bullshit lol
kindred oar
what does peter say as they leave? like "that was a waste of fucking time"?
somehow that made him more unlikable than anyone else on the show lmao
coarse ridge
Why doesnt his super uber rich wife foot the bill lol
How much could his friend have possibly wanted
kindred oar
maybe she thinks it's also bullshit so she doesn't want her money to go to it lol
snow stump
also I'd say that their mom probably never "liked" them
aside from Roman
she was trying to tell them that maybe its for the best that they sell the company so it'll make things better for them
but in actuality she just wants them to have the money to invest in some rando's pitch, very on brand
fleet ember
I think it was easy to blame Logan for how fucked up all of the kids are, but that scene there showed that it wasn't entirely his fault
snow stump
I've seen a lot of excerpts from the script books from scenes that didn't make it into the show and Caroline's abuse went deep with them too
the ugly mirror stuff was haunting
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I wonder tho what happened with the Pierce deal
Would have liked that loose end tied up
kindred oar
probably just fell through since none of them wanted to do it anymore?
snow stump
probably, buying PGN seemed like just another way for them to goad logan and when he was gone, it probably lost its luster
kindred oar
i don't remember the details but was it contingent on more than just the gojo acquisition?
it might have just been held up by the actual details rather than the big show of them throwing a number and the pierces agreeing to it, which is convenient for the show lol
they likely have more than enough funds to do it since gojo is paying a pretty penny per share
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I’m sure I have some recency bias going on, but I think my current ranking of shows is: 1- The Wire 2-Succession 3-Breaking Bad
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If that wasn’t from Variety I would assume it was DisbussingFilm
kindred oar
that's very jeremy strong of him
snow stump
Great episode tonight, guys!
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