#Succession

47 messages Ā· Page 1 of 1 (latest)

blissful flicker
#

Discussion

IMG_1057.webp
#

Also loved this but it might be the first tv show Iā€™ve ever watched that doesnā€™t have a protagonist? My wife found it weird not having a ā€œgood guyā€.

feral wing
#

Er, GREG.

ivory nimbus
blissful flicker
#

I pissed myself at his ā€œhaving a rummageā€ line šŸ˜‚

ivory nimbus
#

Yeah they are all horrible people but I love that. Same way I love It's always sunny

blissful flicker
#

There was a question about it on Only Connect this week and I got it on the first picture and was far too smug.

#

Then questioned the order it came up in because as we all know || Kendal is the eldest boy ||

ivory nimbus
#

And the number one boy

charred marsh
# feral wing Er, GREG.

sort of. i think he's the surrogate for the audience isn't he, like the most normal person. but he's still a massive arsehole, thinking of the wedding episode in particular

turbid whale
#

Top 10 shows of all time. So many great moments in it and every character so interesting and unique

#

Some of the best side characters in all tv

#

Big shout out to Frank, Karl and Gerri

mental ingot
modest lagoon
#

I liked the first few series but then started to not see the point of it. I thought the last series was a waste of time. And I fucking hated Roman, hated his wee one liners. And not in a love to hate him way, not like a villain.

turbid whale
#

I liked him. I feel like he was a really good representation of that "raised on the internet" guy

ivory nimbus
#

I also liked him but at the same time i would be exhausted spending time with anyone like him, always the wee witty quips

modest lagoon
#

I didnae see him as a character, I just saw him as a vehicle for the writers to be all pleased with themselves.

#

I don't know what it was, it was like too many perfectly constructed one liners, and it made me aware of the writers.

lofty bloom
#

I think Romanā€™s artificiality is basically the point of his character. Heā€™s the one of the kids who is just kind of play acting life because his dad was an abusive monster to him specifically and because he had nothing like a normal life growing up anyway. In a way all of the kids are doing that, but Roman is the one that most feels like heā€™s not really naturally evil. All his crudeness and awful jokes are him trying to fit in, trying to be his dad.
Then it all crumbles at the funeral and you get a glimpse of actual humanity in there, which none of the rest of them ever really show. Great character!

modest lagoon
#

I liked that bit

modest lagoon
lofty bloom
#

Breaking down at the first sight of Greg Davies

modest lagoon
#

Oh no, it's real.

#

What did you think of the last series of Succession? Did you not feel that it was uneventful?

lofty bloom
#

I thought it was great, it brought all the characters to the point of exposing who they really were, broke them all down at the very end, and made you feel bad for the worst people in the world. And I liked that by killing off Logan, they were able to take the aftermath of that to show more directly how he had ruined all of their lives by trying to force them to be the perfect heir, trying to recreate his own ego and narcissism. And then made them feel like it was their fault when they couldnā€™t match his evil.

ivory nimbus
#

Yeah I kinda like how most of the show was dialogue driven, lots of scenes of them just standing in a room arguing. Nothing really happening, but I enjoyed that, sometimes TV shows have too much going on, trying to shock viewers with twists/action or whatever. Maybe why I enjoyed 12 Angry Men so much as well

blissful flicker
#

I enjoyed that regardless of pacts and truces and even events like weddings etc, you always knew one of them had something up their sleeve

ivory nimbus
#

And shivs ending, I seen this quote online after the finale:

Often father and daughter look down on mother (woman) together. They exchange meaningful glances when she misses a point. They agree that she is not bright as they are, cannot reason as they do. This collusion does not save the daughter from the motherā€™s fate

#

A quote from 30+ years ago

But shiv didn't break the chain in the end

turbid whale
#

Such a great quote and so perfect for Shiv who's this perfect encapsulation of being stuck between who she thinks she has to be vs. how she actually feels.

#

The show's so good for giving every character, at some point, the opportunity to do what they actually want but they all turn it down.

#

All except one legend...

lofty bloom
#

Connor is the interesting one, not really raised by Logan, but still poisoned by growing up in wealth

main ridge
#

my favourite moment from Succession was nan Pierce bringing in the roast from the kitchen as though she'd cooked it, after being handed it by the chef who'd actually cooked it

#

and from the same episode one of her sons humblebragging "oh the second phd is brutal"

violet pawn
#

Cba reading all this rn, but I fucking loved succession and thought it ended perfectly

ivory nimbus
violet pawn
#

Just reading what the big man said. It was an uneventful final series,but it felt fitting. I think they'd have struggled to match the same tempo as the earlier series without it feeling forced. They'd all drifted apart by that point, and the show was always at its best when the power struggle was at its peak.

The final series has one of my favourite scenes. Kendall drunk all this shit for real https://youtu.be/B0CCEKOsMtg

YouTube
Mpaw
Meal Fit for a King scene - Succession Finale

you're a nobby

ā–¶ Play video
ivory nimbus
#

L to the OG

crisp rune
#

I still enjoyed all the character interactions, but by the end they were running out of plot stuff. There's only so many "we want to buy Company X, but Company Y are trying to take over us, so we need to buy Company Z" plotlines I could take.