Just binged the series while in isolation with COVID over the past week. I could talk about it all day but two points stand out to me:
*It's interesting how unsympathetic the show is toward its main characters. By contrast, Tony Soprano/Walter White were also horrible humans, but those shows went out of their way to show how they got to that point. You could do this with the Roy kids, too -- Logan Roy is probably at least as bad a parent as Livia Soprano was -- but the ethos of Succession seems to be more that a piece of **** is a piece of **** and it's not worth dwelling on how they got to that point. Not saying this is good or bad, just different than I was used to.
*I love the way they write the dialogue. The Succession universe lives in this uncanny valley between the realistic and the absurd. So many lines that feel like they'd be one of the wildest things I've ever heard someone say, yet don't feel entirely unrealistic.
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Originally Posted by GTO2.0
Maybe I’m giving the writer too much credit but the Greg/Tom scene was so good, imo.
Greg is groomed by Tom for the whole series to be a self interested *******, and his character this season has been totally loathsome. Just getting seduced by the money and power etc.
Then Tom, who they dropped all these hints about being more in with Logan this season, gets the call from Shiv and clearly isn’t too confident in the siblings ability to succeed. Greg swoops in and tells him about his girlfriend ladder climbing. Tom sees this guy, total loser, who he’s been using as his personal punching bag, making a move and being completely amoral and selfish and maybe even succeeding.
So he thinks - **** it, Shiv herself just said I’m only with her to climb the ladder, I’ll just take my shot now too.
Just fits in with the overall theme of the show being that every single character is just a huge selfish assholle who is only out for themselves.
Awesome observation, I missed this subtext the first time around. Greg is entering his prime, wouldn't be surprised to see him feature more prominently in S4.