It’s the charisma 100%. I can’t tell you how much joy I got out of any time Logan Roy humbled his arrogant kids. He’s the biggest bastard on the show, but he’s electric to watch. Or any time someone would outsmart the other with a clever play. Intelligence also goes a long way in appealing to audiences. Protagonists c…

I think there might be a connotation gap with the word “likeable.”

But it wouldn't be an adaptation of a GRRM novel if it didn't beat you over the head with gratuitous gore!

Is Succession really any different than say The Sopranos, where many of the characters are likable monsters? Or...Tony’s kids? 

As a former GoT fan, I didn’t give HotD a chance for two reasons. First, the botched ending to the show and the impossible to finish book series (GRRM isn’t going to ever finish it because he doesn’t know how) made me retroactively feel a bit dumb for investing so much time and energy into it. The second reason is the…

The main problem with the first season is that they were covering roughly twenty years worth of events in ten episodes. They didn’t have the time to make smaller characters feel more realized or to give moments time to feel their weight. My hope is some of those issues disappear now that the main event is upon us in…

The show’s biggest problem is one it really can’t do anything about: it’s impossible to take the Prince Who Was Promised prophesy seriously, because we already know it’ll ultimately mean jack shit. Thus, any time Viserys or Rhaenyra make such a big deal about it, you can’t help laughing.

The Broadway play “The Shark Is Broken,” running last fall, was one of the most bananas behind-the-scenes looks at the making of that movie. Shaw’s son wrote it and played him, and honestly, I came out of it just wanting to watch the movie again to see the barely contained rage in, well, everyone, haha. 

The Godfather

Hi: I’ll respond to that last paragraph.

As one of those “bad parents” of a trans youth, I say “Go fuck yourself” to this dipshit mediocre-at-best “actor.” It’s hard enough to help your child navigate their journey, not to mention worrying about the unprovoked hatred and violence coming their way in part due to ignorance and bigotry from this two-bit hack…

Theater: “Join us for our screening of Jaws with Richard Dreyfus!”

Dreyfus: “Let’s talk about trans people and #MeToo!”

Audience: “How the fuck did we get here?!”

The shark is a metaphor for wokeness.

The budget issues may have been real, but he’s the only one who comes across negatively in the interviews. It’s not just the complaining, his tone is scolding and sanctimonious. Weird, because he plays Hooper as an easy-going, very likeable guy in the movie. Switch to real life, though, the mask comes off and you see…

It’s been pretty well known that this guy is just an asshole. Hence his career being reduced to ultra low budget straight to redbox movies. 

That’s a lot of words to just mean “dickhead.”

No wonder Robert Shaw hated him. He knew what was up back in 1974! 

Apparently sober, this guy is the perfect description of ‘dry drunk’.

We’re going to need a bigger ice floe

Richard Dreyfuss showed up, that’s what happened.