Succession Succession: Coca-Cola fascists We are barreling through this season (and I will be bereft when it ends!) and post-proxy fight, the Roys are tinkering with American democracy. As usual, we rank the winners and losers of this week’s episode with lots of spoilers. Colder than a gelatinous prison omelette: Kendall flops Well By Maria • Nov 23, 2021 04:03 pm
Succession Succession: Forget cancel culture, this is coma culture As always, we are recapping who won and who lost on this week’s episode of Succession. This was set up almost like a Frasier plot, with people running in out of rooms in a panic, all trying to pretend everything is OK while things are comically falling apart. As By Maria • Nov 16, 2021 02:32 pm
Succession Succession: Lion in the Meadow How is it already episode four? This season is going way too fast. As in previous weeks, I will be ranking the Succession players from hot to cold, based on their standing. Spoilers, obviously… Colder than a lobster lunch on the beach: Shiv’s powerless power suit: It’s incredible By Maria • Nov 09, 2021 02:13 pm
TV Updates Succession: The Disruption Typically, each week I sort out the Roys and their assorted minions into hot/cold categories but this week, it’s a spiral. Everyone is colder than Greg’s $40,000 watch without a battery. (The lone exception is Ziwe as a talk show host, the best pop culture reference By Maria • Nov 02, 2021 03:24 pm
TV Updates Succession: Girls count double now Another week of splitting this group of monsters into hot/cold categories based on their position in the family drama. Spoiler alerts, obviously. Hotter than climate change caused by excessive private jet use - It’s been a few days, maybe a week?, since the Roys were floating around the By Maria • Oct 26, 2021 02:13 pm
TV Updates Succession Season 3 Episode 1: Ranking the Most Disgusting People on TV Hello my slime puppies and welcome to my weekly check-in with our family of terrible people – the Roys and associated hangers-on. After each episode, I’ll be sorting the teams into hot/cold based on their position in the family drama. Spoiler alerts, obviously. Hotter than the climate change that By Maria • Oct 19, 2021 02:25 pm
TV Updates Succession: The bad people we love I’ve never understood the opinion that unlikable characters in books, movies, and on TV shows are a bad thing. Every six months or so, a debate will pop up about a show and whether or not a character is likable, redeemable, or can “teach” the audience anything. I hate By Maria • Oct 15, 2021 11:16 am
TV Updates Our number one boy is back It’s been a very long wait but finally, finally!, Succession Sunday is upon us. As we march towards the Roy vs. Roy battle, let’s check in on where we left everyone, what they’ve been doing, and where I think they’re going. The cast has been doing By Maria • Oct 13, 2021 03:59 pm
Succession Intro for August 31, 2021 Dear Gossips, I savoured Hunter Harris’s latest piece for Vulture this morning. It’s about Succession, its cast and showrunner, after having spent two weeks with the season three production in Italy this summer, part of Vulture’s fall preview. And there’s a lot to look forward to By Lainey • Aug 31, 2021 08:57 am
Succession Intro for August 24, 2021 Dear Gossips, I wish I could run a sound effect along with this sentence – and the effect I would play you is the piano tinkling. You know it: the theme song to Succession. Because those assholes are coming back, and we finally know when. October. pic.twitter.com/1kNnfr13Wa — Succession By Lainey • Aug 24, 2021 09:38 am
TV Updates It’s here! It’s here! Succession teaser is here! The current best show on “TV” is one minute and 20 seconds long (including credits). The Succession teaser is here and I know you’ve watched, but let’s watch again: What we are seeing here, again, is Kendall as a man on the precipice of power. Kendall hyping himself By Maria • Jul 07, 2021 09:53 am
Succession Nicholas Braun: Cousin Greg gets a magazine cover! How impatient are you for the next season of Succession? F-ck! I want it so bad! They’re still filming though, and HBO hasn’t even announced an air date so it won’t be summer, although hopefully they can get enough done for a post-Emmys start. Which would be By Lainey • Jun 01, 2021 02:06 pm
TV Updates Succession SNL There were two Succession cast members at the Saturday Night Live after-party this weekend. Well here’s a return to “normal”: the traditional SNL after-party has always been a thing. The parties were suspended, obviously, until recently. But bars and restaurants in New York have been open for a few By Lainey • May 10, 2021 09:49 am
Succession “Sometimes It’s a Big Dick Competition” Well. Here we are, the last weekend of the Trump presidency. For four years, the world has watched a wealthy New York family led by an immoral patriarch try to ruin a nation. And one of the best shows on television during that time premiered at the midpoint of the By Lainey • Jan 15, 2021 10:59 am
Emmy Awards 2020 Succession’s Non-Sweep: Worst Best Emmy’s Acceptance Speech First things first – if we’re going to talk about Succession, you have to know what I have in my head at all times while it’s on, from the moment the first chord plays on the piano: ‘A kiss from Dad-dy-y’. It KILLS me. Because it’s so petty. By Duana • Sep 21, 2020 11:25 am
TV Updates Which Succession characters would thrive in self-quarantine? As another week of self-distancing and self-quarantine goes on, it is time to ask the important questions, such as: Which Succession characters would thrive in self-quarantine? The Roy family is made up of a bunch of self-involved narcissistic assholes who get off on chaos and back-stabbing. An economic crisis brought By Sarah • Mar 24, 2020 01:19 pm
