One of my favorite pastimes of the last few months is reading Succession takes by people who fundamentally do not understand the show. 

Was this the first episode of Succession you’d ever seen?

You’re going to fucking love it. Wake up early, early enough to get to the park long before sunrise - and bring warm clothes or a blanket to wrap yourself in (it’s Hawaii in summer, but it’s still nighttime on a mountain.) Once you find parking, just follow the eerie red glow in the sky until you get to an observation…

That’s a very kind way to put it - and it’s not wrong - but it’s also only a small part of the whole. The problem wasn’t their hearts on their sleeves, it was their hearts being stapled over everything, obscuring the new movies/shows/whatever for their actual quality, deciding instead to judge them based on the thing…

I have fond memories of Beast Wars, because its ambitions managed to elevate what should have been a grade-F show. But it’s worth noting that said elevation still only brought the show to maybe - maybe - a C+ at its best.

I think the theme here is “buy a ticket based on its connection to a show you remember liking, not by the movie’s actual quality.”

Where did Ken lost Shiv? Honestly it probably just dissolved over the course of the day after she woke up that morning and the glow of sibling bonding wore off. But if there was a moment, it might’ve been when Ken started talking in the board meeting and immediately behaved like an impatient little shit instead of…

Trying to top Corncob TV is the sort of thing that can doom an artist. It's like Axl Rose constantly trying to get people to stop saying Appetite for Destruction is the best GnR album. That level of self-inflicted pressure is crippling. 

I’m also interested in seeing who’s funding Chris Christie’s campaign.

Heck yes!

God, I hope so.

Unbeknownst to her, Shiv’s second biggest mistake (the first being the fake phone call) was coincidentally giving Greg the same threat that Kerry gave him, and in almost the exact same location. That was like five or six days ago, and I bet it (and how both of them turned out) was still fresh in the Egg’s mind when…

At the end of Season 2, after Logan tells Ken he’s throwing him to the wolves, Ken quietly asks his dad if Logan ever thought Ken could have handled the big chair. Instead of an explicit yes or no, Logan just says “you’re not a killer. You* have* to be a killer.” He tries to spare his kid’s feelings a bit by…

On a purely political level? Yeah, I can see how the U.S. may be viewed as borderline third-world by the rest of the planet. American politics fucking suck, and they get worse every year.

“There’s one person here who doesn’t think I’m a joke.”

Pretty sure Kendall was off doing meth with the white trash posse during that therapy session, but I still think you're right: Logan probably said that line once a year to his kids and Ken was surely around for a few of them. 

I wouldn’t say caricature. He’s always been a slimy little weasel, but for three seasons he had someone (usually Tom) to latch onto like a remora. Now he’s unmoored, so his actions - while very typical for Greg - feel more unfocused.

It’s frustrating that none of the three kids have realized that they’re attempting to buy Pearce (Pierce?) for like a third of what Logan was offering two (?) years earlier. Do they not see the writing on the wall there?

My favorite part of that video is right after they’ve detailed the work/living plan that utilizes radial suburban neighborhoods with carless roads, electric powered public transit, underground roads, and a 30-story central office building. All that stuff is incredibly ambitious but managed to just fly under the Crazy…

“Harry Belafonte: Patriot”

Well he sure as hell earned it. Also, while it may seem odd to single out a person’s Muppet Show appearance in their obituary, it really is a phenomenal episode. Belafonte was a natural in front of the camera, the musical numbers are great, and he meshed with the Muppet performers like few…