It helps to remember that Succession is a comedy.

I’m glad that you mentioned Olivia Dunham and Peter Bishop, because when I didn’t see Fringe listed among the shows that succeeded I went “Pffftt, they totally forgot one!”

The problem is, they’ve heard that in media res is a good thing, but they don’t trust it.

I don’t understand the ratings system here. Last weeks decidedly bad episode received an A. This weeks better but awfully disjointed episode also received an A. Objectively neither deserved that rating. I enjoy the show but......c’mon, it’s hard to take AV Club seriously with such wobbly grading standards. I loved the…

While I think it was the weakest of the 3 episodes so far, it was still entertaining. Very Herbert West horror in this one.

Not even the mention of the Trumbull Park Homes Race Riots of 1953 and 1954, which saw hundreds of white Chicagoans gather outside an accidentally segregated public housing building,...

As a point of order, the “room below the basement” was the room Leti turned into a dark room/exorcised the bastard, accessed through the door in the floor of the regular basement, and a known quantity to the cops. The white guys ended up in some sub-sub-sub-sub level tunnel at the bottom(?) of the haunted elevator…

I thought it was connected to her issues with her mother, who’d say she was “going to church” and be gone for days at a time with strange men, and who also had children by multiple fathers (it’s implied). So Leti didn’t want to get involved at all with any man for that reason? I think another review I saw theorized…

Just curious what you thought the significance of the orerry that Hippolyta finds during the house party in the previously locked room is? Did she take it with her? It was gone when the ghosts were killing the intruders.

Am I dumb or something? Didn’t we last see the gang in New England watching a wizard mansion implode? When are these boarding house events taking place?

I seriously have to start watching each episode multiple times to catch the real life historical Easter eggs that they drop. In the premiere episode, they referenced Gordon Park’s Department Store picture.

This episode was great. It works well as a haunted house thriller, but it goes to another level when you start thinking about the house as a metaphor for the nation itself. Every haunted house story is about trying to make a home in a place that doesn’t want you there. This is the reality of living in America for…

This is turning into one of those rare  book-to-screen adaptations that surpasses the source material—it’s richer, more complex and even more resonant. Great stuff.

Just an FYI: a priestess of lucumi is called an Olorisha. Orishas (such as Oya) are gods.

And the award for “Most Improved from Source Material 2020" goes to...Lovecraft Country! By a Lovecraft Country mile.

I find the historical aspects of the show interesting but the horror aspects are becoming less effective on me. A recurring theme of Lovecraft’s work was the regular man caught in a situation that he cannot escape. The hero wasn’t really a hero and he did not have the capacity to defeat an enemy that was beyond his…

Christina’s power isn’t ‘freezing black men’ it’s immunity to physical harm. It’s why she was able to effortlessly overturn the pickup truck full of hillbilly’s back in the 1st episode.

This is the first extreme diversion from the anthology that we’ve seen so far. I think it works in that it certainly evokes the power of a communal response in exorcising the ghost, and Leti being able to get a toe hold at a property by standing on/with the bodies of those that came before, and it certainly more in…

I’m sorry but have you lived through the last 20 or so years of human history? Goldman Sachs? the Panama Papers? HSBC laundering trillions for terrorists and drug traffickers? the fixing of the LIBOR rate which was literally a multi-trillion dollar scam? Jeffrey Epstein? Donald Trump becoming President and staying…

Ah yes when a huge multi trillion dollar company is revealed to have done bad things. It instantly gets wound down and put out of existence. That’s how it works in the real world!