Succession

[shiels]

Who is watching and obsessed? It’s the best thing on TV in years. The writing is up there with The Office and Sopranos and this final season has been flawless, making me empathise with the worst people in the world.

 

[william kent]

An absolute slap in the face to Rich.

Succession

Yesterday we finished watching the second series of this programme. For those who don't know it's about the power struggle to take over a media empire run by tyrannical philistine Logan Roy who appears close to death. Of course he is based on Rupert Murdoch (although his Australian origins are...

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[william kent]

Gus and Shaka watched it, but only to support Dasha.

 

[shiels]

Sorry Rich! Sufi delete thread and I will continue my chat over there

 

[shiels]

It’s worth pushing through your disgust response in the first series

 

[woops]

considered watching this but decided having a slash would be more entertaining

 

[william kent]

Rich is going ballistic rn. He's torn all the pages from his Alain Robbe-Grillet books.

 

[shiels]

It’s worth it for the insults alone. And I think the British creator in an American setting enhances all that

 

[william kent]

It’s worth it for the insults alone. And I think the British creator in an American setting enhances all that

Impressive to go from creating Peep Show to a wildly successful HBO drama.

 

[woops]

Impressive to go from creating Pee Show to a wildly successful HBO drama.

 

[shiels]

Culkins character is especially good. But they all are. He’s perfectly cast because culkin has the entitlement and arrogance of a child actor, and lives in an older family members shadow

 

[Corpsey]

I'm saving the last season for when it's done. Mainly cos I haven't got Now TV.

 

[shiels]

I'm saving the last season for when it's done. Mainly cos I haven't got Now TV.

It’s the best yet by very far, funnier, sadder, more surprising. Characters have become whole.

 

[craner]

I'm still watching the first series and it's the only fictional TV drama I've liked since The A-Team when I was 7.

 

[shiels]

Given Sky do HBO in UK - is it another murdoch psyop to get us sympathising with psychopaths in power, like The Crown, The Sopranos and that?

 

[craner]

I have a feeling this thread is going to be much better than Richard's.

 

[shiels]

I'm still watching the first series and it's the only fictional TV drama I've liked since The A-Team when I was 7.

It just gets better from their first series. And I don’t recommend or start shows easily, I need about 12 recommendations from people I respect before I commit to something

 

[craner]

Given Sky do HBO in UK - is it another murdoch psyop to get us sympathising with psychopaths in power, like The Crown, The Sopranos and that?

"I don't give a shit what you think of me. In fact, I will make money from your fantasies."

 

[woops]

"I don't give a shit what you think of me. In fact, I will make money from your fantasies."

 

[craner]

Then again, the fact that Jerry Hall had a clause in her divorce agreement relating to this show suggests he is not as relaxed about it as he likes to pretend.