What Was Succession All About?

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• JR

  @jrrtalkin · 2 years ago · pinned

  You can&apos;t make a Tomelette without breaking a few Greggs...and you can&apos;t make review videos without spending time and money - if you&apos;re here over a year after the Succession finale (who isn&apos;t still rewatching Succession...), you can support this channel via a very nascent patreon: <a href="http://www.patreon.com/jrrtalkinpatreon/membership">www.patreon.com/jrrtalkinpatreon/membership</a>

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• JA

  @jaimicottrill2831 · 3 years ago (edited)

  I think Shiv&apos;s moment of betrayal started when they went to Logan&apos;s old office and Kendall sat in the chair. Rather than get down to work, he swung back and forth, like a child in his father&apos;s chair. I think it hit Shiv (and Roman a little bit too) that Kendall was a child pretending to be their father.

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• SE

  @secret.dog.powers · 3 years ago (edited)

  “I sorta see Colin as Logan reaching beyond the grave, not to save his son from death, but to sentence him to life, an utter non-life” oooooooof 🔥🔥🔥

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• EC

  @econmachete · 3 years ago

  This is the golden age of video essays

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• GI

  @GiantPetRat · 2 years ago

  &quot;Because to be meager is to shy away from the true difficulties of life: empathy, kindness, forgiveness, values perhaps traditionally associated with femininity, and even weakness, but they should be universal.&quot;

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• RO

  @romijane · 3 years ago

  I thought your comment of Shiv possibly having an ED is interesting, since Kieran did comment in an interview that he always played Roman as if he had an ED. It&apos;s not adressed directly on the show, but it fits so well and if you rewatch you notice he barely touches food. So, I think because the cast was so talented and commited, there are lots of tiny details open to interpretation. So, your view is not far off...

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• TH

  @thismikewillnot · 3 years ago

  Marcia was Logan&apos;s 3rd wife. We never actually meet Logan&apos;s first wife.

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• JS

  @jsprodonoff · 2 years ago

  I am in no way as eloquent as you or the other people in this comment section, but I did want to thank you for this incredible video. I specifically want to thank you for your section on Shiv. She has easily become one of my all-time favorite characters due to her complexity. It is so, so easy for me to sympathize with her, only to be slapped across the face with her ability to act like a monster a moment later. I&apos;ve been quite frustrated with the videos I&apos;ve watched about Succession disregarding Shiv or not wanting to get into her character due to not being able to make sense of her true intentions. She is so, so interesting precisely because she (via the phenomenal writing and through Sarah Snook&apos;s monumental acting) doesn&apos;t spell her thoughts out to us! It was refreshing to see someone delve into her character like you did, so... thank you so much!

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• LI

  @Lizzie-ve7kt · 3 years ago

  One thing I realized watching your video, though I don’t know for sure if it was intentional, is that Shiv’s pregnancy in season 4 even further mirrors the Nero and Sporus anecdote as one detail in that story that Tom didn’t mention was that Nero pushed his pregnant wife down the stairs in order to castrate and subsequently marry Sporus. I feel like the ending of the show really cemented everyone’s roles in this story with Tom as Nero becoming the “emperor” of Waystar/Royco as its CEO and Greg’s betrayal of Tom and then his hiring on as Tom’s right hand man shows that in a business sense, his upward mobility is castrated in the corporate world since he can go no higher while Shiv, being pregnant and pushed down the metaphorical stairs that she’d climbed on her way to the top of the corporate ladder by Tom’s ascendency as CEO and her being relatively insignificant in the company. I feel like with how masterful the writing is that the show did make this intentional but even if they didn’t it’s a very nice callback to the story from last season.

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• DA

  @DashaDexter · 3 years ago

  I really wish we saw more of Stewy. He was like a breath of fresh air in the show because he always added great commentary and different perspective

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• SU

  @Superplin · 3 years ago

  This is one of the best discussions of a television show I&apos;ve ever seen. As a media scholar, I tip my hat to you for how you organized, constructed and presented all of your arguments. I truly enjoyed it and will be showing it to graduate students as an exemplar.

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• TH

  @thompsonnoel · 3 years ago

  I&apos;ve just started rewatching the show these past few days and one of the things I&apos;ve noticed is the criticism you highlighted in the video. They shower you with a firehose of plot (like Marcia&apos;s role in the trust during the first few episodes) that ultimately never goes anywhere. On the one hand I do find it frustrating as a viewer, but on the other, it highlights something important about these power worlds (business, politics,...). They live in a state of perpetual crisis and stress. Every detail seems entirely relevant (it&apos;s very apparent to anyone who follows politics for even a month) and yet its relevance is only meaningful as long as people keep mentioning it.<br>For example, Kendall&apos;s accident/murder could have gone away by the next episode but because Logan uses it and keeps using it until his death to loom large over him it stays at the foreground. Meanwhile, Cruises is forgotten until it pops back up or Hugo&apos;s insider trading is entirely forgotten because no one talks about it or uses it in any way to hurt him. Every plot point in those worlds is meaningless until someone imbues it with meaning by using it.

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