TV Updates The Big Time Bear You know how it is when you fall in love, right? Not only does everything feel so wonderful and right, and not only do you want to introduce your new love to everyone in your life – your love seems relevant to every situation, right? If you’re part of the By Duana • Jan 08, 2024 08:24 am
Succession Alexander after Succession You know a detail I love in the final season of Succession? The way Lukas Mattson keeps insisting that unflattering magazine illustration of Shiv working him like a marionette doesn’t bother him. Just the way he keeps saying, “It’s fine,” it’s so obviously NOT fine, but Alexander By Sarah • Jun 09, 2023 11:38 am
Succession Brian Cox and Logan Roy: It wasn’t too early SPOILERS but we’re still talking about the finale of Succession, right? I know we are because people are obsessed with why Roman was wearing a Walmart t-shirt and GQ even dedicated a whole article to it. Succession was about the Roy family and who would succeed its hideous patriarch, By Lainey • May 31, 2023 01:38 pm
Succession Intro for May 30, 2023 Dear Gossips, Welcome back to those of you returning from the Memorial Day holiday in the US and perhaps still recovering from the devastating series finale of Succession. I posted about it in this space yesterday and like many of you, I’m still thinking about it today. Specifically about By Lainey • May 30, 2023 08:52 am
Succession Intro for May 29, 2023 Dear Gossips, Spoiler alert… Succession ended as it should have – and was there any doubt? By giving us not what we wanted but what we need. Which is why at the 45 minute mark, when Kendall, Roman, and Shiv are in the kitchen, laughing together, smiling at one another, being By Lainey • May 29, 2023 08:44 am
Succession Intro for May 15, 2023 Dear Gossips, I laughed harder than I really needed to last night during the “wasabi lemon” scene on Succession. It was welcome comic relief, like power guzzling water during a workout – you take it down fast and greedy, because it’s just been so grueling up to that point, and By Lainey • May 15, 2023 09:20 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for April 20, 2023 Dear Gossips, Duana sent me a tweet this morning that made me laugh but also made me mad. It’s about Succession. And it’s a little inside baseball for screenwriters but …I dunno, LOL, isn’t everyone an aspiring screenwriter these days? https://twitter.com/Bitterstaff/status/1648411714155851776?s= By Lainey • Apr 20, 2023 10:30 am
Succession Intro for April 11, 2023 Dear Gossips, Can we start the day appreciating Brian Cox and how he rolled up to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert … in style!?! Check him out in his red shirt and jeans over red suede boots, an outfit that Logan Roy would never, ever, ever wear, would in fact By Lainey • Apr 11, 2023 09:56 am
Succession Intro for April 10, 2023 Dear Gossips, So you thought Taylor Swift had all the Easter eggs, right? Especially since it’s Easter weekend? We’ll get to Taylor later but she didn’t actually drop the biggest Easter egg of the weekend. That distinction belongs to Jesse Armstrong and the Succession team… because holy By Lainey • Apr 10, 2023 09:19 am
Amazingness Intro for March 27, 2023 Dear Gossips, Holy sh-t, what a weekend it was in celebrity gossip. It started with a classic Friday gossip dump: Reese Witherspoon announcing that she and Jim Toth are divorcing, which is what celebrities used to do before social media in the hopes that doing it just before the weekend By Lainey • Mar 27, 2023 09:18 am
Succession Logan the Barbarian Perhaps needing to take the conversation from all the mess surrounding The Idol, HBO released the final trailer for the upcoming fourth and final season of Succession today. And it’s a banger. Because this is the end. Succession will not drag on. Jesse Armstrong is not interested in pushing By Lainey • Mar 02, 2023 12:50 pm
TV Updates Succession recession It’s time to start the “how do you think Succession will end” betting pool, because series creator Jesse Armstrong revealed in an interview with The New Yorker that the upcoming fourth season is also the series’ last. Armstrong said he met with the writers at the end of 2021 By Sarah • Feb 24, 2023 03:08 pm
TV Updates Our number one boy is doing his best There’s a new Jeremy Strong profile in GQ written by Gabriella Paiella and like all great profiles it’s layered: there’s the subject, the journalist’s perception of the subject, the subject’s awareness and sensitivity to the how they will be perceived by the journalist (who is By Maria • Feb 22, 2023 02:11 pm
TV Updates Succession: What’s love got to do with it? Now that we’ve all Googled “what is a holding company” we can celebrate and mourn this brilliant season finale. There are two pivotal moments that happened last week that were overshadowed by the pool scene: Kendall’s publicist mentioning a podcast on Roy scandals, including the drowning of a By Maria • Dec 13, 2021 03:18 pm
Top Reads Succession: Under the Tuscan Sun Typically I file my Succession recaps on Tuesday or Wednesday but because it was such a major episode with lots of spoiler potential, we are diving right in. As always, MAJOR SPOILER ALERT. I’ll also be reversing the character analysis from hot to cold. Two corrections from last week: By Maria • Dec 06, 2021 03:10 pm
Succession Succession: It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to This episode hurt. It was sad and uncomfortable and depressing. We’ve had scenes with the Roy children in a room ripping each other to shreds before, like at Shiv’s wedding and at Rava’s apartment and at Connor’s ranch. But there was a buoyancy to all of By Maria • Nov 30, 2021 02:14 pm
