Succession: A Tragedy of Appearances

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  @subjectiviteit · 3 years ago

  If any of Kafka's books get more movie adaptations, I would so love to see Jeremy Strong (Kendall Roy) play the main character. I don't even care which book, I just feel that he would communicate the confidence, insecurity, and absurdity that Kafka's main characters tend grapple with so well given his performance in Succession.

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  @squiggle9981 · 3 years ago

  I think that the show is more about the cyclical nature of abuse and how it in a context of power influences the world than business.

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• TN

  @tn3ea7 · 3 years ago

  i never made the connection between kendal's low points and his being closer to the public

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  @howardron543 · 1 month ago

  This is the best video essay on Succession

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  @dawnfmEnthusiast · 3 years ago

  So many original thoughts in this video; one of the best Succession video essays! I'm just 7 mins in and I had to say so.

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• ZE

  @Zeivo5 · 3 years ago

  Excellent video as always 👌 Good to see you back, my guy.

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• KE

  @kevinavilaescobar8050 · 3 years ago

  this is definitely one of the video essays that i have watched on what is my in mind a true contender for the spot of greatest tv show of all time and deserves to be placed in the same league as shows like the sopranos and the wire.

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• EM

  @emmag938 · 3 years ago

  That hall of mirrors analogy is spot on. Cheers - great video.

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• SE

  @sergi.llobell · 3 years ago

  I follow you since the early evangelion days. Your content never ceases to amaze me!!

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• JA

  @jacobrippy5586 · 3 years ago

  Came back to this video after watching the series finale. Plays like absolute prophecy. Brilliantly written with incredible insight.

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  @tomaitoe · 3 years ago

  I'm glad I am seeing this for the first time now, after watching the incredible finale. You summed it up so well.

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  @free1431 · 3 years ago

  Such a great video. I'd wish this show was more talked about and analyzed on this platform. It's really good and I especially loved the ending and how you described the tragedy of this family, mainly the three siblings, and how they are so wealthy, but at the same time so out of touch with reality and desperate for power and approval, that they don't even know what they want and fail to realize that they just act like children fighting for their dad's love and attention, trying to get everything they want to have a rush of adrenaline or fleeting satisfaction that won't even last and destrying their own lifes and hurting everyone around them in the process because they can't really be intimate with someone, communicate or show any kind of affection in a meaningful way. They are so childish and immature they always think they are doing such important stuff like you said, when in reality they barely control anything that happens around them and if they didn't have so much money and political influence, people would probably treat them as a joke, just as his dad does most of the time.  I think Tom and Greg are the ones that will gain much more power and influence than the Roy's and the approval of Logan because, as Tom said, he knows what is like to come from a difficult background and really have to fight to get where he is and be wealthy and powerful, just as Logan, so it makes sense that the latter trusts more in him than in his own spoiled,  out of touch, desperate to please, and sort of delusional kids.

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