#succession episode 9

[viviqueue]

There’s something so haunting about Kendall & how in many ways he has become crueler than his father. I think part of why Roman decided to get tossed around by protestors was primarily based on Kendall emotionally abusing him right before for his understandable breakdown after not properly grieving Logan’s death. Their dynamic always had a certain vulnerability to it that might be gone after that conversation. He’s already betrayed and been betrayed by Shiv, and will likely continue to break her down so that she knows her place in the sibling hierarchy. If Logan couldn’t hold a woman in his head, what does that mean for Kendall as it relates to his relationships with women? He tried to manipulate Jess into staying through verbal insults, he tried to emotionally manipulate Rava into staying for the funeral despite there being clear signs of civil unrest brewing. He has failed every woman in his life, and his relationships with men are strictly based in terms of dominance and manipulation. He may very well succeed and come out on top in the end, but who will he go to when he needs to be consoled?

I think for as abhorrent Logan was as a character, Ewan’s stories in my eyes puts him in a better light than Kendall when we consider the contexts they both grew up in. Logan’s cruelty was crafted in his lived experiences of being blamed for his sister’s death and the relentless abuse that came from it. That’s a kind of trauma that would take decades to fully unravel even with therapy, and the scars on his back were emblematic of his past always being in his the forefront of his consciousness. His abrasiveness and abuse can’t be waved off or justified, but asserting that he made these decisions of a sound mind is ignoring aspects of his characterization. I don’t think many people go through what Logan did and come out of it undamaged or even alive.

Kendall on the other hand grew up in luxury and was not primarily informed by trauma and physical abuse inflicted upon him. He has a sound enough mind to recognize things like fascism, homophobia, and misogyny, but makes conscious choices to support them when given the opportunity, even at the cost of everyone around him who might be impacted. He is choosing to ostracize himself from his loved ones in order to surpass his father because he is the most arrogant sibling and will not leave this world without claiming his birthright. And the most consistent thing about all these characters, but specifically with Kendall, is that their wins are always followed by crushing losses. With everything we know so far, I can’t guarantee that Kendall’s making it out alive as the story ends, at least not the one many people grew to love.

[idonotbitemythumbatyou]

Man I love Succession (HBO)

[holycartoonwarrior]

How it felt to watch this scene

Ngl shiv is stronger than me, if this happened to ME at MY wedding I’d kill myself

[iveneverbeenmorestressedinmylife]

if i had a nickel for every time ive ugly sobbed while watching succession i would have two nickels. which honestly isnt that much but my god does it always catch me by surprise.

[deadnatura11]

Saw BTS pics of 911 and Gerard is there... what if instead of selecting one of the core four to take over while Bobby is out of commission... the county assigns him as the interim Captain as punishment for going AWOL and subverting orders during the cruise rescue 😰?

[artemispanthar]

These are my top TV shows that I watched in 2022. As with the movies, I'm posting this now because I never got around to it last year.

Also like the movies, these are just what I watched in 2022, not series that came out in 2022. They also have to be new to me in 2022, so no series with new seasons that I’d already been following. These aren’t necessarily the best shows, just ones I really liked or made an impression on me. I’m including both running series and limited or miniseries.

These shows are in no particular order, I just arranged the posters how I thought they'd looked the best. The shows are:

This is Going to Hurt

Shining Girls

The Haunting of Bly Manor

For All Mankind

Unbelievable

Five Days at Memorial

Succession

The Patient

Yellowjackets

[literaryelise]

did someone say succession x shakespeare?

[incurable-cough-of-death]

“Maybe the poison drips through” is the thesis statement of Succession, everyone go home.

[laniidae-passerine]

I’m finding that the laziest moments of Doctor Who’s writing are the ‘retroactive twists’ - when the show runner reveals something happened way back over there, in the past, before they were even running the show. And we swear it happened, way over there, far back, and you didn’t see it because of reasons but it’s definitely been happening! And it totally makes sense and I absolutely didn’t just pull it out my ass to justify my paper thin plotline! All this kind of writing does is make me miss self contained season length plots. We’ve had people complaining that Moffat was guilty of the “this thing is big and scary and it’s going to happen, oh god it’s showing up, we’re going to discover what it truly is….. next season!!!!!!” plotline (and yes. he was. twelve is my fav doctor but yeah Moffat loved a mysterious horse and a big stick) but now suddenly when RTD gets out his own mysterious horse and a big stick, it’s got to be genius! everything is eventually going to make sense! and we’re absolutely not being had by a man who used to be able to write this show and is now a hack!

[sp3akfromtheart]

warning: opinions on 13th doctor era

[scrumptiousstuffs]

“Why doesn’t your mom cook dishes from this region?”

Last Twilight, episode 9

(Wow..didn’t expect the above relevation - although seriously? 😦 Night and Day’s mom is gorgeous!!! Is the other woman an angel or something?)

[sunsetlovelydreams]

I just finished season 3 episode 9 of Succession and my mind is absolutely blown away at everything that's happened, but there is one point I need to get out of my system: the way Roman's facade chips apart until he's nothing but broken pieces scattered on the ground by the end of the episode.

His breakdown is particularly jarring because just a few minutes earlier he was the one consoling Kendall with inappropriately dark humor, calm and collected in the face of his brother's tears and murder confession.

The facade starts chipping just as they're about to enter the car: he's the last one to go in and with much hesitation. And it keeps peeling away as they drive. He's the only one still in denial about the deal even though he's the only one privy to the conversation between his father and Mansson. Several times during the discussion, he insists that they should not go in there aggressively, partly because he hopes they're wrong about this, but also because he's afraid his father will turn aggressive and he knows, intimately, what that means for him. He's near tears when he agrees to kill their dad, and he says it ("Okay. Fuck. Okay") with a big sigh, like it's a confession that he never thought he'd get out, like it had taken all his strength to get it past his lips.

Kendall confessed to killing a kid far more calmly than that. Another contrast.

Some of Roman's fear comes from his dad, but on their way to the room, climbing the stairs, we learn there's another reason Roman is afraid: he thinks his siblings will betray him re: the water gun accident in Bali, where they left him to hang. This echoes back to the vote of no confidence in season 1, where Roman is left to face his father's rage alone, this time with a deadlier if more metaphorical gun in hand. Roman has never sided with his siblings before, despite being the one who shows the most affection between them throughout the show, because he doesn't trust them and he's terrified of his father.

And then we come to the real fractures, the ones Kieran portrayed masterfully: the tears in his eyes when they tell Logan their plans, the way he hangs his head when his mother reveals her betrayal, the way he crosses his arms in front of him to defend or comfort himself when Logan raises his voice, the way he hesitates before answering, the way his voice shakes when he speaks, the way he just crumbles at the end, all of them terrible, all of them heartbreaking.

But the biggest indication to me that he's falling apart is this one sentence that he gets out with much, much difficulty: "to tell you and to say... do not do this, please." Roman, who throughout the show has shown himself to be a people's person, who has been the best of the siblings at negotiations (regardless of sucess), who has been shown to make the best pitches even at gun point, who is quite literally afflicted with word diarrhea at any given point, could not come up with a more coherent sentence than: "do not do this", the very bare minimum and the least refined sentence he could have gotten out to save himself and his siblings. And the "please" that he tags on at the end shows that he's emptied out, no words left to convince his father, no clever turn of phrase, nothing left in his hand to negotiate... but "love", an echo of that "please" in that it is emotional and comes from the heart and, to Logan, from a place of weakness. He has been stripped of logic, he is nothing but raw emotions, and that's exactly what his dad hates about him.

[stepbackattack]

The deep range of emotions I feel toward Roman Roy this season is palpable

[teamkenbaby]

the way i originally thought this line was “see kenny high” and didn’t even question it because i thought it meant we’d get another kenstewy scene

[bitchthefuck1]

Something tells me they're not gonna close the portal tonight

[rheingoldweg12a]

Silently chanting: “Gerri will be ok. Gerri will be ok. Gerri will be ok.”