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Re: TV - Succession

[(Anonymous)]

SD

Reminds me of after ep1, when they were like "Connor seems nice!". He's the worst of the lot! From his very first appearance, he's been in crazed comic book villain territory! He's introduced boasting about how he's going to hoard all the water in the water wars!

Re: TV - Succession

[(Anonymous)]

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Frank continues to confuse me. Not sure if he's got some plan or if the writers just don't know what to do with him. Gets fired in ep 1, refuses to come back (saying he has no price), then comes back (unexplained!), and just... gets fired again. Huh?

Things I liked... the convo between Kendall and Stewie. I love how Stewie just says the subtext. "I can trust you, right?" "No." He continues in this fashion, while Kendall just hears what he wants to hear and presses on, telling him secrets. It's very funny and I don't think I've seen it done like that in a comedy drama before; it's closer to a Simpsons gag. :D

Also lol'd at Shiv in the scene where Tom's complaining about work and her mind's on her own stuff. Then he picks that moment to start talking about wedding admin. She's busy, Tom! You can see her wishing he had a mute button. Been there. She's my fave of the siblings and I'm annoyed at the cheaty direction the show is taking her. It's possible to want a dude to shush when you're working without there being anything nefarious afoot!

Re: TV - Succession

[(Anonymous)]

S1e7. It's a "the whole family goes to therapy" episode. Contrived, but much better than expected; this was my fave so far. And Shiv continues to be my fave, car scene aside. I like how she sees through Logan in no seconds flat. And tells Connor he's delusional for being taken in. I think she's the Roy kid with the most ability to get stuff done and lead. Kind of interesting that she won't go near the company; I think she knows Logan's never gonna let go of it, so there's no point going for it.

Cracked up at Logan furiously eating an apple, and at his outrage that he should take advice from someone who jumps in headfirst at the shallow end of the pool. Much metaphor in that for his situation in general, when people try to give him advice, I think. Why would he listen to them?

(Because they're correct, is why! But yeah, I assume it's hard for him to filter good advice from bad, bc from his pov it's all being delivered by failures whom he's best off ignoring.)

Re: TV - Succession

[(Anonymous)]

E8: Prague was even better; sharp script, had me laughing all the way through, new fave ep! Kendall plumbs new depths of uncool, almost salvages it, then gets worse. As always. I had loads to say about this ep, but left it too long and now can't be bothered. Much funnier than the earlier stuff, anyway; script was way more creative with the jokes, the characters felt lively and distinct, and I was like "oh okay the show has hit its stride now".

But it was followed by e9. Which was a mess, tbh. Inconsistent writing strikes again. This one feels like the writers have come up with (what they think are) funny lines that they've just given to characters at random. The humour is back to characters just saying "fuck" or "dick" a lot. Every scene feels like it's desperate to be gifed, so the characters just quip in OOC crude ways, all with the same edgetastic voice. Cringe.

I feel like there's no real point following the subterfuge because the characters just get rewritten from episode to episode, so there's not much point speculating on what they're going to do. Is Marcia suddenly openly acting super aggro to Shiv a plot point, or just inconsistent writing? Cannot tell. I think if a drama is gonna build up around characters who can double-cross each other, you can't have all the characters just doing things at random all the time. And I'd like more effort put into the jokes.

So, :( . Looked up the writer for the last ep; looks like that writer got only 1 ep per season. :((( Hoping the next episode is better.

Re: TV - Succession

[(Anonymous)]

E10. This ep was MUCH better! The comedy was great! The characters were the characters again!

So end of S1. I am so confused by this show. Why is the writing SO fucking variable. This episode would have been amazing if the previous ep hadn't been such an absolute shitshow. Instead, I got taken totally out of it for an episode riiight before the dramatic finale, then dropped back in when I'd detached. The finale went for as much drama as comedy, but the previous ep had slightly ruined all the characters and their arcs, delivering important plot points with about as much finesse as GoT s8, so I found it hard to turn on the deeper empathy again and got a lot more from the comedy side.

Ah well. I'd been going to give up on it tbh, but this ep was v good so may actually keep watching future seasons. Think I'm gonna watch some other shows, first, though. Haven't seen anything with such inconsistent quality since dr who. Guess I'd give it 7/10 overall. When it's good, it's very good, but I think I only found 3 out of 10 eps in the season to be up there. And every ep is 60 mins, so when they're middling you feel cheated of your evening. It's never terrible, but I was hoping for cleverer intrigue than it managed in this first season.

Great episode, though! 😂