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Inner Light posted:BOAR ON THE FLOOR!!! Where'd he come from? Nobody knows Where he'll go
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god someone please be nice to Greg for once.
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Feb 9, 2024 19:20
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no.
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Feb 9, 2024 19:34
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I'm still in season 2, but right now Greg, and Gerri are the only people that I would bother to save if trapped in a burning building.
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Feb 9, 2024 20:14
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I’m rewatching this from season 1 and am midway through season 2. It’s reaaaaally unwatchable when Kendall fucks up the vote of confidence and then the hostile takeover. All well done obviously but so much cringe.
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Feb 9, 2024 20:31
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Vegetable posted:I’m rewatching this from season 1 and am midway through season 2. It’s reaaaaally unwatchable when Kendall fucks up the vote of confidence and then the hostile takeover. All well done obviously but so much cringe. that was so loving painful to watch.
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Feb 9, 2024 21:13
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uh huh
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Feb 9, 2024 21:19
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The biggest personal failure in the show isn't Kendall's, it's Roman not loving Ger-bear. She danced her way through your rainstorm and never got wet, bro
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Feb 9, 2024 21:24
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I said come in! posted:god someone please be nice to Greg for once. gently caress him and his California pizza kitchen
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Feb 9, 2024 21:24
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I know that Kendall is the big loser of the show, but it feels like Shiv flailed more, and even more visibly. The most embarrassing moments of Logan owning any of the siblings seem to be from her. She seemed intelligent in the 1st season until she wasn't. "I've seen you get hosed a lot. But I never saw Logan get hosed once."
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Feb 9, 2024 21:34
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christmas boots posted:gently caress him and his California pizza kitchen it's pretty delicious
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Feb 9, 2024 21:37
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beepo posted:Where'd he come from? I understood this reference
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Feb 9, 2024 21:42
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Shageletic posted:I know that Kendall is the big loser of the show, but it feels like Shiv flailed more, and even more visibly. The most embarrassing moments of Logan owning any of the siblings seem to be from her. She seemed intelligent in the 1st season until she wasn't. yeah Kendall has nowhere to fall in the viewers' estimation because he's an obvious fraud with no skills or assets outside his family name and money. he's introduced white boy rapping. on the other hand, the veneer or idea of competence is actually a critical part of what shiv sells to liberals and to viewers. they flatter shiv by treating her as though she has unique insight, while pretending she has unique insight lets liberals wash their hands of the fact that they just like the street cred and glamour and access that hiring/working with a conventionally attractive conservative media heiress gives them. and of course the unspoken logic is that being abused by a famous media heir must have given her skills and drive (it didn't, it turns out succession does not believe suffering abuse is ennobling or edifying) one of the shows perfect little jokes ("jokes") imo is the way that misogyny catches shiv coming and going at all times. she spends all of season 3 with her husband trying to impregnate her so she'll be forced to bear his child and tie him to the family forever, and then when she does get pregnant he accuses her of using it as a move in what is partly a blatant act of projection. then her final choice (in the limo, I mean, not the boardroom fight) is between being a failed heir of Logan Roy or the estranged wife of Waystar's CEO (since she seemingly can't envision anything else). as a larger arc it is incredibly bleak but also she never stops being a fully realized and funny and mean character even as each of her own choices and attempts to leverage the system against itself (for her own gain and no one else's benefit) only binds her tighter
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Feb 9, 2024 22:16
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Speaking of misogyny, one of my favorite, not-even-trying-to-be-subtle moments is when the excruciating stockholders' meeting is going on and on and on and they've put in a bunch of videos of women who work there to try and prove that the recent rape/sexual harassment reveals are not indicative of the culture of the company, and in the middle of one of the women saying they have voices that are heard Karl comes stomping out and tells them to shut off the video because he has something to say!
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Shageletic posted:I know that Kendall is the big loser of the show, but it feels like Shiv flailed more, and even more visibly. The most embarrassing moments of Logan owning any of the siblings seem to be from her. She seemed intelligent in the 1st season until she wasn't. She's wayyyyyyy out of her element. She seems like an OK political flack when that stuff comes up, but she's too blinded by her dad's manipulations to realize he'd never just plop her in a high level position at a multimedia conglomerate like that. It would be an insane thing to do; she's got basically zero experience. She seems quite good at manipulating individual members of the media and shaping individual stories to her liking, but that's a long way from running the business itself. PostNouveau fucked around with this message at 23:18 on Feb 9, 2024 |
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Feb 9, 2024 23:16
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In the episode in season 2, where the Roy family is visiting the Pierces, to discuss buying their company, did Kendall literally poo poo the bed? Years of cocaine use?
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Feb 10, 2024 19:16
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Cranappleberry posted:uh huh
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Feb 10, 2024 19:23
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Just thinking about how one of my favorite jokes in all of media was Greg?
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Jerusalem posted:Speaking of misogyny, one of my favorite, not-even-trying-to-be-subtle moments is when the excruciating stockholders' meeting is going on and on and on and they've put in a bunch of videos of women who work there to try and prove that the recent rape/sexual harassment reveals are not indicative of the culture of the company, and in the middle of one of the women saying they have voices that are heard Karl comes stomping out and tells them to shut off the video because he has something to say! full disclosure, I'm having a panic attack right now.
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Feb 16, 2024 18:53
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Cranappleberry posted:full disclosure, I'm having a panic attack right now. oh I know how to deal with panic attacks, Succession taught me - Make fun of the person having the panic attack - yell a lot - tell them to stop victimizing themselves - repeat what they say in silly voices
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Feb 16, 2024 21:05
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Finished season 2. 
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Feb 17, 2024 07:36
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ah but what if your toenails are not all that aesthetically pleasing
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Cranappleberry posted:ah but what if your toenails are not all that aesthetically pleasing That was an awesome episode, the boat Logan had everyone meet on was awesome, just really awesome.
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I’ve been really interested in whether Succession has managed to anticipate industry trends and so far they seem to have missed the mark a bit. The Vaulter guy is supposed to be this visionary who’s interviewed for Waystar CEO at the end. It makes no sense that Matsson would even consider someone who’s their version of a Vice or Buzzfeed founder. In our world tech has always thought those publications to be beneath them. And certainly those publications were dead at the time they were writing Season 4. The kids tried to put together The Hundred. They called it “Substack meets MasterClass meets The Economist meets The New Yorker.” They made it seem like the project actually got some interest. This seems to reference the wave of new hip publications in the mid-2010s like The Outline and Mic. Those didn’t survive for very long, and it’s odd that they are seen as viable in the show. What we should have been seeing is a lot of more big tech. There’s a gaping hole where Netflix should have been mentioned. There’s not enough mention of Meta and Google’s online advertising dollars decimating traditional media.
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Feb 23, 2024 19:55
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Isn't GoJo supposed to be Netflix? I guess that's easy to forget since Mattson is pretty much faux Elon Musk.
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Feb 23, 2024 20:02
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Opening credits with the "loading..." in the Roystar app. Would've loved to see more about that side of things, though. The Hundred might get invited to show off a pitch deck to some interested parties, but that world has been shown to be full of "sure, sure" types who only care about the final buy/sell number.
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Feb 23, 2024 20:29
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Vegetable posted:I’ve been really interested in whether Succession has managed to anticipate industry trends and so far they seem to have missed the mark a bit. To be fair, they are all idiots
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Vegetable posted:I’ve been really interested in whether Succession has managed to anticipate industry trends and so far they seem to have missed the mark a bit. GoJoe is the Netflix equivalent, roughly speaking. Also remember that he didn't really want a CEO to take charge, he just wanted a warm American body that he could work like a puppet.
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Vegetable posted:The kids tried to put together The Hundred. They called it “Substack meets MasterClass meets The Economist meets The New Yorker.” They made it seem like the project actually got some interest. This seems to reference the wave of new hip publications in the mid-2010s like The Outline and Mic. Those didn’t survive for very long, and it’s odd that they are seen as viable in the show.
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The Hundred also seemed very close to The Messenger, which just launched a year ago and then (post-Succession finale, just recently) hugely and publicly collapsed hard.
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Yeah, The Hundred was going to "work" in that the owners had billions of dollars and the reflected glory of their surname, so a bunch of people were gonna descend on it to make whatever they could from it before it inevitably collapsed, peppered with a few true believers who would end up either financially devastated or with their own careers ruined while the Roys just moved on to something else after selling what was left for parts and probably still being billionaires regardless of the losses. "Substack meets MasterClass meets The Economist meets The New Yorker." is just Kendall spouting empty buzzwords because he thinks just saying things makes them so, and he doesn't actually have any vision of his own, just stitching together broad concepts of ideas other people are already doing without really understanding how or why it works.
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sebmojo posted:To be fair, they are all idiots you're fired. Not really but, like, really you don't work here any more,
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Half way through season 3, and now Greg can go gently caress himself. Both sides trying to help him out and gain his loyalty, and he keeps trying to flip back and forth and please everyone for his own personal gain. Then he acts Pikachu shocked when both sides look at him like he is a useless bitch that is wasting their time. Was not at all surprised when his grandpa decides gently caress it and gives his inheritance money away to Greenpeace. Toms response when Greg explains that he is going to sue Greenpeace for the money back, was gold. Greg should have left Waystar and stuck with Kendell exclusively.
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I said come in! posted:Half way through season 3, and now Greg can go gently caress himself. Both sides trying to help him out and gain his loyalty, and he keeps trying to flip back and forth and please everyone for his own personal gain. Then he acts Pikachu shocked when both sides look at him like he is a useless bitch that is wasting their time. Was not at all surprised when his grandpa decides gently caress it and gives his inheritance money away to Greenpeace. Toms response when Greg explains that he is going to sue Greenpeace for the money back, was gold. Greg should have left Waystar and stuck with Kendell exclusively. 
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I'm scared about what this means!!! I just want to see Greg make good decisions. 
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It’s funny, Greg was always a craven little worm but because he’s the closest thing to a normal human we get in the main cast he’s also really easy to sympathize with. People seemed to generally react to his evolution with an “oh no poor sweet Greg” but this is really what he always was, he just didn’t have the slight modicum of wealth and power to act on it before.
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Freaquency posted:It’s funny, Greg was always a craven little worm but because he’s the closest thing to a normal human we get in the main cast he’s also really easy to sympathize with. People seemed to generally react to his evolution with an “oh no poor sweet Greg” but this is really what he always was, he just didn’t have the slight modicum of wealth and power to act on it before. I find it strange people didn't see it from the off tbh. His interactions with Tom loudly broadcast his slimy turpitude.
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Open Source Idiom posted:I find it strange people didn't see it from the off tbh. His interactions with Tom loudly broadcast his slimy turpitude. Yep, I see that now and now I feel as bad as everyone else who defended him and tried to help him out. Not that anyone else on the show is good either, these are all terrible human beings.
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sails out, nails out bro
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