She had me until approval on costumes? The fuck?

was the natural off ramp for a lot of people

I’d maybe add that losing BOTH Chris Evans and RDJr. was akin to losing the yin and the yang of the “original” MCU. Unlike many, I like more films than I dislike from the post-Endgame films, but I really can’t tell you who the anchors of this post-Endgame MCU are anymore.

“It wasn’t a big deal when Superman died”

It wasn’t a big deal when Superman died, because everyone knew he would come back eventually. When Adam Warlock dies, it’s explicitly not a big deal because it’s baked into the character that he will come back.

I understand why they went to the nanobot suit, but I did really enjoy those early entries with the clunkier, physical pieces of armor.

Iron Man remains a top 5 MCU film. It’s eminently watchable even 15 years later. So many pieces came together, and we should be thankful Favreau pushed for Downey’s involvement. He was the perfect Stark. And I love how much Downey became a champion for the MCU going forward. (I think of that entire MCU cast photo…

“Adam Warlock, Marvel’s best comic book character.”

People could tell that, despite everything, when Kendall said what he did about having more time with his father, he was absolutely sincere.

huh? Joy was being loyal and diplomatic, she just didn’t want to lose the loyalty of her talent to another studio.

So Roman comes in wanting to fire someone over Kalispitron, and Joy tries to get him to “sidebar that” because of the “big personalities” involved. With the benefit of hindsight, that was obviously a major strategic blunder by Joy, but to me it didn’t read as necessarily self-serving.

Also did Kendall’s pitch work? He is treading in Elizabeth Holmes territory which can only speak to a spectacular fall into criminal indictments. Would SUCCESSION go there?

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…

Did she and Tom not have sex in last night’s episode? It feels like someone familiar with her body would’ve noticed a 20-week pregnancy.

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?

Kendall actually understands business though, he was the head of some waystar division in asia for a few years, he had the trust of his father. He almost wrested the company away from his father the great Logan Roy multiple times. His problem is that he had a tendency to go off the rails at the worst times and lose…

You are a better person than me. Even though on one level I understand how their f’ed up upbringing made them f’ed up people, I still feel a very satisfying schadenfreude watching these entitled amoral a-holes sow the seeds of their own destruction.

This ep was particularly good about showing how miserable it is to be a minion to such psychos. Constantly being pushed to acquiesce to their bullshit that you know you will take the blame for when it all comes crashing down and if you don’t, you get fired.  

Shiv can’t run the company,she has no head for business as the show has pointed out a bunch. What she can do is run powerful men.  She can do the thing where she lets the men think they've won while she is in the drivers seat.