Like, regardless of my politics, Succession in an aggressively leftist show that is in part about politics. Most of the Roys actively mock their own anchors, viewers, and specifically Mencken as Nazis. I'm just reporting on the text of the show.

This episode it suddenly felt to me like they have explicitly decided to apply the classic beats of a romantic comedy to Midge and Susie.

This is the most focused the show’s been since Season 2 at least. I’m annoyed that Stephanie Hsu is gone, but they’ve been nailing it every episode for me.

It was one of the best episodes of tv I’ve ever seen. It’s as though most people here were watching some other show!

Wow, I don’t even know where to start here.

When Susie was walking away from the Friar’s Club instead of using her car Mrs. F. and I got very nervous for her - especially when the sad music started playing.

“Susie isn’t totally blameless here, either. If she’d been a little better with money and addressed her gambling problem, she wouldn’t have had to sell her soul to the mob.”

Pretty sure Joel was laundering money for Frank and Nicky’s family through his clubs. That can only go on so long before the feds come a knockin’.

Has The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel been trying to tell us all along that Midge is actually the villain?

I’d argue that Midge is the villain of the series.

Does the reviewer not understand Susie repeatedly stole from Midge? Until Joel got her free of the mob, Susie was stealing 30 percent of Midge’s income in order to reward a situation Susie created for Susie. It was Susie who had the gambling debts, Susie who got the theater for Sophie — not Midge — Susie who didn’t…

I honestly wish these flashforwards weren’t just new nonsense for the last season.

While I really liked Season 1 and thought Season 2 was ok, one of the reasons why I pretty much did the watch-the-episode-in-15-minutes skip ahead technique in Seasons 3 and 4 is that I found the show’s insistence of portraying Midge as this airbrushed trailblazing heroine teeth-grindingly incompatible with the…

This. They had a relationship, maybe a business partnership. But it was never a friendship. Mostly because Midge is an asshole. But also partly because Susie is stubborn (and not terribly good at business for most of the show). Midge views relationships as mostly transactional, a trait she picked up from her parents…

Yup. All of Midge’s relationships are one sided. She doesn’t wake up in the morning and say “how can I use my ex-husband to further my career today?” but when she has a conflict and needs someone to take care of the kids so she can do a show, she knows she can call on him and he will say yes while at the same time she…

Several European countries still have inherited monarchies. Sweden, Denmark, The Netherlands, Norway, and Spain all come to mind. So good chunk of Europe should be ashamed?

And that’s just Europe.  There are many countries in Asia that also have inherited monarchies.

Yeah considering Shiv’s well-documented issues with her mother and the back and forth with Tom about getting pregnant last season, I don’t think they’d just drop the bomb that she’s pregnant and not follow up on it. It’s a pretty great ticking bomb in almost every Shiv scene right now, though.

I feel like if she went through amniocentesis, the idea of her then choosing abortion wouldn’t fit. But she is very impulsive in her personal life. She seems like the most together of the Roy kids, but she’s just as F*d up. And while a woman can have any reason to terminate an unwanted pregnancy, I could see Shiv makin…

I mean....the point about the outcome and status of other people’s pregnancies is well-taken, but I mean, come on, Chekhov’s pregnancy here. It would be a....curious....storytelling choice to drop this pregnancy on the audience and then for it to have virtually no relevance to the outcome of the story, save some…