Succession Season 4 — Spoilers Included

[Webster]

Happy season premiere day, to those who celebrate.

Going to go with Logan dying in episode 7 so the ****show can play out.

 

[Webster]

“Life is not knights on horseback. It’s a number on a piece of paper. It’s a fight for a knife in the mud.”

 

[qtlaw]

"Everything is a market."

 

[Webster]

I thought that there were some outstanding lines but the episode didn’t completely work for me. Nan Pierce was even better this time though.

 

[Tighthead]

I thought that there were some outstanding lines but the episode didn’t completely work for me. Nan Pierce was even better this time though.

Nan is fantastic, humblebragging about how she likes cheap wine.

I found the episode a little dull. It’s all feeling a little played out to me. I didn’t give a **** about who won the bidding war.

 

[qtlaw]

Funny how Roman is the ditziest but the smartest of the kids. I thought earlier on that Shiv had the stuff but she and Kendall just look like they’re spitballing stuff with no real clue.

 

[Webster]

The problem sometimes with the show is that the writing seems to be targeted to the bloggers and podcasts which cackle over the insults and descriptions. But it really isn’t in service of the plot.

 

[Webster]

And I know that I’m in the minority here, but I find Jeremy Strong’s tics to be distracting and self-indulgent.

 

[micropolitan guy]

Someone speaking in short, concise sentences will be a first too. Every conversation sounds like a TV add filled with disclaimers.

 

[Webster]

Someone speaking in short, concise sentences will be a first too. Every concersation sounds like a TV add filled with disclaimers.

It’s like the insult of the large handbag of Greg’s date. Each insult was hilarious but did we need like 20 seconds about it?

 

[garrow]

Unpromising opener

 

[Cosmo]

Tough crowd. Succession has a history of starting slow. I'll reserve judgement until we get to episode 3 or 4.

Also, "someone want to smell Greg's finger?"

 

[clintrichardson]

Any chance that Tom and Shiv end up back together? As ugly as their relationship has been, it is the only thing on the show resembling a romance (unless you include Roman and Jerry, which I suppose there is an argument for).

 

[Deskgrunt50]

It did seem like the kids and Logan were just playing the usual game and everyone seemed kind of bored with it. Perhaps that was the point.

There’s obviously going to be a giant shift in the dynamic since this is the last season. Relative calm before the storm?

 

[clintrichardson]

I would bet that we get one episode which is set entirely around election night, with Logan pumping his candidate and the kids pushing the opposition through their Pierce properties.

 

[britwrit]

I liked it. But this is a good season to go out on. The point has been made. Money not only not buys happiness, it doesn't buy much self-awareness either.

 

[garrow]

Tough crowd. Succession has a history of starting slow. I'll reserve judgement until we get to episode 3 or 4.

Also, "someone want to smell Greg's finger?"

I grimaced at that line.

My favorite from the episode: “The Hundred is Substack meets Masterclass meets The Economist meets The New Yorker.”

(also, I had no idea that Shiv and Tom had a dog named Mondale)

 

[qtlaw]

How about Greg's [to Colin] "no, you go do what you gotta do without me, I don't want to know what happens in Guantanomo." (not an exact quote)

 

[TigerVols]

I wonder what Jeremy Strong did in the off season to **** off the writers. He went from being the pivotal character last season to an afterthought in this season’s premiere.

 

[qtlaw]

There were some fun moments last episode:

"He looks like Santa Claus/assassin"
"You have un-TV arms"
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But I'm tiring of the circular stories finally (I know its been round and round before).