HBO: Succession

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  1. CF3234

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    And Willa is back at the house moving the couch around to get ready for a party without a care in the world.
     
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  2. Hoss Bonaventure

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    I know I’m late to the party (almost finished with season 2) but goddamn at Shiv. Goodness
     
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  3. Hoss Bonaventure

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    On season 3 and laughed my ass off at “Piss mad”
     
  4. Sam Elliott

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    Just watched Run Rabbit Run on Netflix last night.

    So weird to see Shiv in her native Australian accent. Funny to see many of her Shiv expressions in the film.
     
  5. Hoss Bonaventure

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    Was it good? Looked decent from the trailer
     
  6. Sam Elliott

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    Decent, not amazing but I'd say it's worth a watch. Good plot twist at the end.
     
  7. TLAU

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    Just finished bingeing the whole show over the past month.

    Roman was real fuckin weird but also a pretty good character until Logan died then he lost his shit and was truly awful on screen. Prior to that he was just a fuckin weirdo.

    Kendall I hated from episode one and that really didn't change the entire show. Even when he was in beaten puppy mode really didn't feel any sympathy for the guy. Fuck him and glad he didn't end up getting the company

    Shiv I honestly was hoping would get the company, if one of them HAD to get it. As a character I liked her up until mid-season 3 when she was an absolute cunt to Tom. At least prior to her being used by Mattson she was completely open and honest about being a terrible wife to Tom

    Fucking love Tom. Tom and Greg had some great scenes together. Greg was a mumbling, rambling, using 18 words instead of 1, fucking idiot but his innocence and naivety made him likeable to me. Yelled at him to shut the fuck up about 80 times but still he wasn't a human piece of shit like the majority of the characters

    Pretty entertaining show overall. As far as "life of the uber rich business centric shows" go I'd put this over Billions. Good show but not cracking any Top 10s not even just HBO shows.
     
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  8. brahmanknight

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    They all were pieces of shit. The only possible exception was Jess.
     
  9. TLAU

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    Hugo's head to body ratio really bothered me. He was like some kind of baby bird or something.
     
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  10. Name P. Redacted

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    During my rewatch I realized how incompetent Shiv is.

    They are just not serious people.
     
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  11. afb

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    open at your own risk

     
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  12. emma

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    Binged all 4 seasons in a week. Most definitely one of the best. Theme song and its variations were killer.
     
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  13. TC

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  14. Kent Pavelka

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    Awesome show. Underrated part in this thread that I've read at least is the awesome set pieces. I loved seeing all the places they visited.

    What sticks out to me most from the series is when Ken did a Chappaquiddick. Even if you could kinda see it coming it was a gripping episode.
     
  15. brahmanknight

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    Fuck I miss this show.
     
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  16. JGator1

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    Just finished rewatch #1, unlike the first time felt like none had any redeeming qualities whatsoever.
     
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  17. LeonardWashington

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    One thing that’s unclear about pierpont is that last season it was pretty clear it was an American firm with a London outpost, but now they’re having all merger conversations out of the London office?
     
  18. poor paul

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    what now
     
  19. Fidelio

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    It’s a post about Industry in the wrong thread
     
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  20. LeonardWashington

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    Yeah my bad guys
     
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  21. Upton^2

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    Do you not watch industry
     
  22. poor paul

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    this is the Succession thread

    and no I have not
     
  23. Upton^2

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    I recommend you change that
     
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  24. JGator1

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    If I can amend this, Stewey is the best (I like weird sex I like bad drugs I'm a complicated individual)

     
  25. Baseballman86

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    This may be skewed due to the thread I'm posting in, but I haven't seen either Succession or Billions. Hear good things on both. Which should I go with?
     
  26. Virgil Caine

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    The answer is Succession every day of the week and twice on Sunday.
     
  27. Sportfan

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    Early seasons of Billions was super fun. If you’re in the mood to pay attention and be into the storyline I’d for sure go succession. If you want some background fun TV that’s an easy binge I’d say billions.
     
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  28. Paddy Murphy

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    Early Billions is fun, Succession is a top 5 show all time.
     
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  29. spagett

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    Was on a work trip earlier this month and this guy's voice sounded exactly like someone from a TV show, but I couldn't put a face to the voice until a week after I got back. I knew it was a character who was a a suck up.

    Then it hit me that it was cousin Greg
     
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  30. Nug

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    I just finished season one. the bolded is why it's so fun. Everybody is either a piece-of-shit or a dumbass POS. There is not one character I moderately admire.

    It's great.
     
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  31. Irush

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    Greg is incredibly likable
     
  32. Nug

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    You're right

    I kinda like Stu
     
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  33. shaolin5

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    I like Greg and Tom.
    Shiv was my early favorite (because hot) but boy her stock dropped quickly culminating when she was "dancing" at Kendall's party.
     
  34. Goose

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    I could never stand Shiv. That was probably the point, but I wanted her voted off the island from day one
     
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  35. shaolin5

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    Again, in my defense I was blinded by hotness the entire first season
     
  36. Nug

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    How in the world can you like Uber Cuck Tom?

    Don't really care for Shiv.

    I thought I would like Roman's character, but he's such a little shit
     
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  37. Doyle McPoyle

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    A lot of the early takes on this show were so terrible and I don't think people understood what they were watching. Show was great from start to finish.
     
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  38. shaolin5

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    Just because he was funny/entertaining. The Greg and Tom scenes were the best part of the show imo
     
  39. Nug

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    Gonna go out on a limb and say that won't be Kendall's only bender of the show
     
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  40. brahmanknight

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    Nope, every character in the show was an asshole. Just like the titular character in The Penguin, I loved that there was no redeeming qualities in those people.

    But I hated Madson the most. Interesting for two or three episodes, after that his scenes dragged on and on.
     
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  41. Nug

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    I think I dislike Connor the most.
     
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  42. brahmanknight

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    I'd never heard the phrase 'scheduled flights' until he complained about 'heavily refridgerated cheeses."
     
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  43. Upton^2

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  44. CF3234

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    They were all completely full of shit in their own unique way.
     
  45. Kent Pavelka

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    The show did great in making you feel for/root for completely awful people routinely.

    The closest thing to a non-bad person was Logan's latin wife but she was no santa either
     
  46. DriveByBBQ

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    I interpreted Greg the egg’s character as representing the audience, fish out of water, interloper to the donor class.
     
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  47. JGator1

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    Lol she was from Beirut.
     
  48. Kent Pavelka

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    Oops roasted
     
  49. scissors

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    Finished the finale earlier tonight after watching the series over the last 6-8 weeks.

    While I really enjoyed a good bit of it, the show started to drag imo. The characters were all different levels of incompetent and unlikable. The final vote was obvious and stale. (Although the sidebar conference was pretty visceral.)

    It can be summed up best by Roman saying “We are all bullshit…this is all just bullshit”.
     
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