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Post by Tachyon on May 23, 2023 18:14:34 GMT -5
Noho Hank would like a word. Stiff competition.
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2023 18:26:34 GMT -5
oh, so succession and barry compete in different categories at the emmy's.
carrigan is for sure taking comedy series in the episode where cristobal dies.
culkin should take it for the funeral episode or tom in the tailgate episode.
i've actually seen a lot of critics say that cromwell was an instant dark horse for supporting for the funeral episode. hard pressed to argue against that.
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Post by Aaron on May 23, 2023 18:35:07 GMT -5
Cromwell was great but he didn’t give us anything we haven’t seen him give us already in this series, or in anything he’s really done period.
I think that’s to Kieran’s benefit. Because what we saw in that episode we haven’t seen in the series ever.
Hopefully the Culkin boy gets it.
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Post by killedbyboard on May 23, 2023 19:33:00 GMT -5
oh, so succession and barry compete in different categories at the emmy's. carrigan is for sure taking comedy series in the episode where cristobal dies. culkin should take it for the funeral episode or tom in the tailgate episode. i've actually seen a lot of critics say that cromwell was an instant dark horse for supporting for the funeral episode. hard pressed to argue against that. Oh that's a relief. For some reason I thought they had Succession in comedy.
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Post by ☭ Bob Loblaw ☭ on May 24, 2023 15:59:21 GMT -5
Any updates on X-Men 97? I need this now!
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Post by Cholo Molester on May 24, 2023 16:20:38 GMT -5
Cromwell was great but he didn’t give us anything we haven’t seen him give us already in this series, or in anything he’s really done period. I think that’s to Kieran’s benefit. Because what we saw in that episode we haven’t seen in the series ever. Hopefully the Culkin boy gets it. I’m fully on team Culkin. He has shown so much range as an actor, and he’s been doing most of the heavy lifting when it comes to emotional acting on Succession. From the phone call to the funeral, he’s delivered some heart wrenching performances this season.
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Post by Aaron on May 28, 2023 22:23:20 GMT -5
Completely satisfied with Succession’s finale.
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Post by Cholo Molester on May 28, 2023 22:42:00 GMT -5
Succession gang, I’m starting the show. My heart is pounding rn.
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Post by carl carlson on May 28, 2023 23:09:34 GMT -5
so many great performances mattson after the call had me hyped
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2023 23:17:26 GMT -5
I am mildly annoyed that they waited until the near ending of the season for anyone to bring up that KENDALL MURDERED A GUY. Like why wouldn’t that be mentioned in the Caribbean during the coronation scene. “Shiv you’re pregnant” “Roman you cried” KENDALL YOURE A RECOVERED JUNKIE WHO HAS RELAPSED IN THE LAST 12 MONTHS WHO MURDERED A GUY. I understand they needed him in the big chair so the swerve hit harder in the end but still, clunky.
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2023 23:17:59 GMT -5
I’m still chewing on the Barry ending
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Post by Aaron on May 28, 2023 23:19:43 GMT -5
Shit ended pretty much as I expected. I didn’t know how we’d get there exactly, but I never saw a single Roy kid winning. Shiv fucking Kendall at the end and finally bringing up the kid he killed, which I’ve been waiting for with bated breath, was brutal. We saw Kendall’s soul leave his body.
I half believed Tom would somehow end up with it all. But, admittedly, I think I always said it tongue in cheek. Not necessarily believing it.
All in all, I think the show has shown us so many times that the sibs always get strung along, and ultimately, shafted. First and foremost by their own father. Somehow Tom always seemed to win. Whether it started simply as an act of Logan being spiteful, who knows, but it sorta became a snowball tumbling down a hill. And Tom was always willing to eat shit.
Tom is perhaps the greatest beneficiary of ironic promotions ever, lol. So, in the end, it made total sense to me. They sorta beat us over the head with how things would inevitably go through all four seasons. Kids get close, but never close enough. Tom and Greg? The Disgusting Brothers seemingly always in the right place at the right time.
So many great moments tonight. Series rocked. Going to miss it, but so glad they did it all right.
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Post by Cholo Molester on May 28, 2023 23:40:20 GMT -5
Shiv’s tiddies hella distracting 👀
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Post by Porch Honky on May 28, 2023 23:50:13 GMT -5
DANK
#JUSTICEFORGENE
#FUCHESSURVIVED
Couldn't Sally have testified to clear Gene's name, I mean she could specifically give the motivation of them coming to LA was to kill him.
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Post by Aaron on May 29, 2023 0:14:25 GMT -5
Ehhhhh…. Not sure how I feel about Barry.
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Post by Cholo Molester on May 29, 2023 1:24:38 GMT -5
Succession rocked!
Barry....umm not so much.
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Post by boundforgloryhole on May 29, 2023 4:26:15 GMT -5
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Post by Frederik on May 29, 2023 6:51:54 GMT -5
Man, Succession stuck the landing. What a fucking series
-Can't make a Tomlette without breaking a few Gregs -I knew Kendall was going to fucking biff it, and low and behold. He spent the first half talking about nailing a presentation to the board to keep the company and whatever, and when it comes to perform he's just like "yeah, the numbers are good. We got the votes, so whatever" thinking it's in the bag. He didn't seem to learn that he's at his best when he's vulnerable and has to rise to the occasion. Instead, he thinks he's the fucking master of the universe and ends up having a mental breakdown in front of the entire board. -Connor lowkey won for having an actual relationship with Logan -Shiv handcuffing herself to a loveless marriage because she has pathological need to be around power/powerful people is bleak. Tom saying he doesn't think he can be in a relationship with her only to 180 when 100% in as CEO was a dick move on his part. It feels like something Logan would do. -Kendall is right in that Roman didn't really want it. He just wants Gerri to spank him and call him a dirty boy. He straight up looked relieved in that last shot.
Part of the tragedy for me is that Ken, Shiv and Roman have only ever had themselves, but they were conditioned to compete with each other for their entire lives. The show makes you think they're finally a united front, but then they fall apart because they just can't get past it. Kendall's breakdown where he tries to deny killing the waiter was probably his most pathetic moment of the series.
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Post by paulkersey on May 29, 2023 7:38:29 GMT -5
I’m still chewing on the Barry ending Same. I didn't see that coming but I dont know how I feel about it.
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Post by Ass Dan on May 29, 2023 9:45:19 GMT -5
Starting succession Season 4. I binged all of Barry season 4 yesterday and that felt like a perfect end to the series. Gene seemed like the only main character that never actually grew by the end. Being the most “wronged” person of the group he wound up being the only one who couldn’t let go of their ego. Part of that seemed to be that his was the ego most wrapped up in himself. Barry’s was wrapped up in being “good”. Sally’s was wrapped up in social approval. Fuches seemed wrapped up in being a father figure. Hank was wrapped up in his family. Gene on the other hand didn’t stop pursuing the glorification of his own ego at every step.
By the end Barry finally realizes he’s been the bad guy in the story. Sally has accepted that she isn’t a “star” and also that she doesn’t need male affection to feel safe. Fuches lets go of his need for revenge. And Hank can admit he chose his family over Cristobol out of cowardice.
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2023 9:54:54 GMT -5
The Mask Collector was great tho I gotta say
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Post by zwansuperfan69 on May 29, 2023 10:15:33 GMT -5
Could not be more satisfied with the Barry ending. I was grinning like an idiot during the last third of it. - Barry walking through the Target or whatever armed to the teeth and then barely being able to get into his car was great. - So was the grenade toss at the end of the shoot out. - Those final shots with Hank/Chrisobal and Gene/Barry were incredible. - Barry being put out of his misery the second he finally does the right thing makes complete sense. - Long live The Raven
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Post by Cholo Molester on May 29, 2023 10:21:50 GMT -5
I did not like that Barry ending one bit, but Fuck it.
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Post by Porch Honky on May 29, 2023 10:52:00 GMT -5
So Barry's FBI homie was definitely the one who got him an Arlington plot, right? Also another person who could've cleared Gene. #acab
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Post by Cholo Molester on May 29, 2023 11:14:25 GMT -5
the more I think about it, the more I dislike Barry's ending.
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Post by Aaron on May 29, 2023 11:36:31 GMT -5
I enjoyed moments in Barry, but don’t think it hits for me when taken in totality.
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2023 12:44:21 GMT -5
He died. And he died a villain but admitting it for the first time in his life. Best of all, the way they wrapped it up with Gene as the mastermind he somehow managed to die a hero while admitting he was a villain. It was wildly chaotic how they got there but still. I’m ok with it. For like a minute, when he was laying in bed with John and Sally, I was worried he was going to ride off into the sunset and that would have been actually bad.
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Post by Porch Honky on May 29, 2023 13:10:05 GMT -5
Nah I knew Sally was done the instant their kid got involved in a firefight.
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Post by paulkersey on May 29, 2023 13:22:44 GMT -5
The Mask Collector shows that Hollywood was working overtime to rehab the image of a low-level theater actor who did some tv and thats where im struggling. Because sure, Hollywood is more than willing to rehabilitate monsters and whitewash their reprehensible actions. But Barry was a nobody, professionally. The only explanation I can muster up for it is that their disdain for Gene probably stems from him attempting to stop the Barry movie and thats why we're getting that portrayal of him in the movie. Even though Gene didnt deserve it. He was egotistical and self-serving but he didnt deserve what happened to him throughout the course of the show.
Fuches also gets rehabilitated in the eyes of the show despite also being a monster like Barry, although he is the master manipulator that helped mold Barry. The military made him a killing machine but Fuches gave him a purpose and now he walks off looking golden since he saved his son.
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Post by hermano on May 29, 2023 13:36:39 GMT -5
Barry ending fucked, I thought. Time to get caught up on Succession.
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