another good way of slipping geography lessons into a show without having to pause the action!

I’m guessing multiple reasons - LotR, Wheel of Time, loss of a major character (Alex), that the Laconia based future seasons would have cost too much in effects, and that it’s possible the non-book reading audience probably just wants to see the story wrapped up. I know that for my parents, they sort of lost interest…

If it is as interesting and fun and exciting as previous seasons, this will still end having been the best sci-fi show ever to grace our screens. There isn’t a single episode that is filler or wheel-spinning. It alway propeled itself forward (by use of the unfortunately named Epstein Drive!) and at the right pace and…

Possibly. Though, I suspect a far more likely outcome would be a confession via suicide note that they then have to work to cover up.

There was a similar one in a British newspaper (The Guardian?) earlier this year. The quotes were similarly self-important but portrayed Strong as more thoughtful and less ridiculous. Gotta say, all of the focus on Strong has made me think Kendall’s death is more likely.

I don’t think he actually takes it during the meeting—that would be a whole new level of bad judgment. It shows him looking for the dick pic in his camera roll, and there are several other non dick pics that come up first. (Mostly of the wedding venue, as well as a cat? Interesting window inside Roman’s brain.)

Exactly. It seemed he got two very similarly-worded texts one after the other. Always triple-check when sending dick pics. That’s my motto.

On the one hand, it makes for some very compelling television, but on the other hand I have to wonder if the whole rest of the show will be Logan dunking on his children over and over until he keels over of a heart attack. Surely something will have to give.

It shows a message from Logan coming in right as he’s in the middle of picking the pic to send to Gerri. So he taps on that, thinking it will take him to the Gerri conversation, and it takes him to a Logan one instead--like a fingers getting ahead of the brain type of situation.

I don’t think he ever wants Kendall to just be “gone”, he wants Kendall to be broken for his betrayal. Which is what all of his strategies and taunts have been to this point.

There’s no way he actually believes Ken poisoned it too. He just made a show of it, made Kendall think about it, then showed what he would do if threatened.

It’s interesting how the deepest cut insults in this family continue to revolve around threats to the “traditional” family structure: I should have had dogs instead of children. Logan’s weird tangent about whether Kendall wanted to fuck the help before he killed him. Whatever the heck is happening between Shiv and…

I don’ t know about the “always has been” part. It’s true that he’s had enough despicable moments threaded through the earlier episodes that his recent heel turn hasn’t felt like it came out of left field. (Speaking of which, see the whole “million dollar home run” fiasco in the pilot.)

It does replicate the dynamics of the show, FWIW. I mean, you’d hope people who have been watching Succession for three seasons wouldn’t need to be told not to emulate the Roys, but here we are.

I meant because Roman is the most immature in terms of personality. But if it comes to that, being the joker/class clown and attempting to get negative attention when one can’t get positive attention are the traits typically associated with the youngest in traditional birth order psychology.

Look, Roman is spiritually the baby of the family no matter what the Wikipedia says.

I’m going through the museum now online, and you can really tell Microsoft seemed to have a very different culture then compared to the company of today.....I’m just not sure they’ve ever managed to properly get away from that image of stuffy business execs. Probably why you don’t ever really ever hear it called “The M…

I was thinking of this in the part of the recap about not much with Greg and Tom tonight. I thought their little scenes together were fascinating, in large part due to Matthew’s performance. Greg is using Tom, when Tom is in a very low moment, and you can’t really feel sorry for Tom, because Tom was abusive toward him…

What does matter is how quickly Mencken and Roman vibe

Uh huh. So how much did you spend on ugly monkey pictures and how many of them are in this torrent.