Succession is a Trauma Factory

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  @sweenietoad78 · 3 years ago

  I agree about Shiv, people talk like she is somehow the worst character but she's on the same level as the rest of them. Roman is particularly awful but people don't mind because they find him funny

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• EL

  @Elnont · 3 years ago

  Once i re-watched the entire series I realised the significance and impact of Roman being the only one who was <b>physically abused</b> by his father. His interactions with Logan always felt different to that of his siblings and his defence mechanisms always felt more intense and the knowledge that he was singled out in that way really makes his character make even more sense.

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• DI

  @disastergirl888 · 3 years ago

  Only halfway through this video, but I don’t think the siblings’ sympathetic response to Kendall confessing to the waiter’s death was feigned - I think in that moment they really did feel for him and want to help him, but that just wasn’t enough to stop them from using it against him when they felt necessary. I think that’s why it’s so sad - it’s a moment of genuine connection for the three of them and symbolizes the hope that they can actually come together as a family, but in the end it isn’t enough.

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• KA

  @kattoonytunes · 3 years ago

  I’m really glad you touched on Shiv because I’ve seen a lot of people not bother understanding how her ending is just as tragic as the other two’s, and just how perfect it is as an end to her story. She was arguably the smartest and best player of the three, and in the end she has the opportunity to “win” in a sense by denying them access to power, but for all her scheming and plotting she herself is only granted access to that power by falling into place and sitting in her mother’s seat. Throughout the show Shiv is constantly given a real opportunity to be a better person than she is. She could’ve been honest with Tom or continued her career in politics with Gil or connected genuinely with any other female character that let her in against their better judgement because she’s a woman too, but she, like many white women before her, denies all of them in favor of trying to secure a spot at the top of the patriarchy ladder with the big boys. But at the end of the day, no matter how devoted she was and how many of her own loosely held principles she sacrificed, this life as a wife and a mother was the only option from the start. I think it’s fitting that the roy siblings get to talk to their dying father in the order they do - first roman followed by kendall, then we hear he’s already dead, then shiv, and then connor quite a bit later. As slim as the possibility was for Kendall and Roman, Shiv was never even a consideration.

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  @ivanacvetanovic7611 · 3 years ago

  There&apos;s another huge difference between Hamlet and Kendall. Hamlet does indeed idolize his father. He thinks his father was the best, the greatest man. In that regard, Roman is a much better match for Hamlet.<br>Kendall, however? He was always torn between wanting to please his father and wanting to beat him and oust him, wanting to emulate him and believing he should cast him down and replace him because he is better than him. He admited Logan&apos;s force and ability to win, but he also thought Logan was a bad man, even an evil one, and a bad father. In S3 he told Logan &quot;You are evil&quot; and &quot;I&apos;m better than you&quot; and Logan retorted by pointing out he was not that good by reminding him of the dead waiter. In S4, he realizes he is also a bad father and says &quot;Maybe poison drips through&quot;. Him becoming just like his father in so many ways (only not by becoming CEO) was a tragedy - and it really would be even if he had succeeded in becoming the boss of that trashy outdated failing corporation.

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• CH

  @chuyi2165 · 2 years ago

  this is so sad

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• MI

  @mintyfreshest · 2 years ago

  I think the impact of major events (the rocket launch, election) is glossed over purposefully. The roy family is so big that they are not impacted by things that would have major repercussions for another entity. Obviously there is an outcome they want, but if they dont get it, they can still keep playing without having to re-evaluate too much because the hand they were dealt is so vast and they can always buy more chips if they need to. (at least, that is how they view the world because thus far it has been the truth)

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• WA

  @wasteofthyme · 3 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiFil62Vd1w&amp;t=452">7:32</a> incredible editing thank you

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• CO

  @corinne6011 · 3 years ago

  Thank you for this interesting analysis. <br><br>I think water for Kendall represents the amniotic fluid in the fetus, last moment of fusion with his mother. Same theme in Too much party with the reconstituted vagina of his mother. <br>Among the ROY-ALS the ELDEST BOY inherits of power and girls are pushed aside. Shiv may have imagined that she would still pushed aside perhaps in favor of Stewy. <br><br>Shiv changed her mind about Tom after he betrayed her and thus showed independence and more confidence in himself. He became more attractive to her. <br>This last season :<br>- she kept her wedding ring untiil the end, <br>- she didn&apos;t divorce, <br>- she didn&apos;t have an abortion even though she thought about it, <br>- she &quot;the girl inside Waystar&quot; safeguard the &quot;Tom of Siobban&quot;s position at the head of ATN by establishing the Kill list for Matsson.,<br>- she played publicy at Bitey-&gt; TOM WAMBSGANS FINALLY MADE ME FEEL SOMETHING !<br>In their last phone call, Tom agrees to an amicable divorce (Czecoslovakia-&gt;Velvet Divorce) and she didn&apos;t follow up this proposal. <br>Tom notices : IT WOULD BE CONVENIENT BECAUSE YOU WOULD BE MARRIED TO YOUR HUSBAND and YOU&apos;VE FALLEN IN LOVE FINALLY WITH OUR SCHEDULING OPPORTUNITIES. <br>By her voting, she goes back to their original plan which was support him to become CEO. But now, she respect him more, because their balance of power is more balanced than ever. Their finale, which resembles the finale of The Graduate, is a sort of &quot;armistice &quot; to their marital fight. <br>I think that if they go together, &nbsp;it&apos;s because it suits them perfectly. They&apos;re not really useful to each others anymore. Nothing forces them to do so.<br>In the car, Shiv is on the verge of tears because the sale is heartbreaking and a defeat for her too. <br>While they both know that it&apos;s thanks to her vote that Tom become CEO, &nbsp;Shiv &quot;CONGATULATES&quot; him because he won everything he wanted from the beginning : Shiv + CEO + Money + Child. <br>He responds with false modesty : OH NO NO, while inwardly jubilant. <br>With the billions from the sale, she can return to politics or or buy herself or create a business. <br>The finale of this show is more bittersweet than tragic because they&apos;re definitively freed from their father&apos;s toxic influence. <br>Now,they can make their own way and try to grow up a little. <br><br>End of SCRIPT BOOK for Shiv and Tom in the car :<br>An accomodation, &nbsp;an equilibrium that could last with a certain stabilty, proxy wars and detentes for many years to come..nothing needy from either side. <br><br>Podcast HBO SUCCESSION &quot;With open eyes&quot; Part II with Mark Mylod (who directed 16 episodes) on YouTube

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  @lesten2707 · 3 years ago

  Wow. This channel is gonna pop off! An incredibly put together and entertaining video!

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• GR

  @gregsnavely9272 · 1 year ago

  roman&apos;s rocket launch*

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  @RimePendragon1974 · 3 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiFil62Vd1w&amp;t=906">15:06</a> Good analysis... but it&apos;s GoJo not DoJo :-)

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