This show is amazing. It’s like Succession x Euphoria but less soapy and somehow meaner. How is this not the hot show of the summer? Beautiful people. Smart writing. Great tension and suspense. Maybe US viewers get thrown by the speed and intensity of some of the accents?

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” Kurt Vonnegut said that. I’d argue that the finale made the argument that Bob Odenkirk’s character wasn’t Jimmy McGill or Gene or Saul. He’s all of them. Only in prison did he achieve his final, integrated form — part Jimmy, part Gene,…

There are a lot of elements of “Joe Pera” that feed directly from Joe Pera. The persona is far from a complete fabrication or put on. So I think it’s fair to explore the ways in which there is and isn’t distance between “Nathan Fielder” and Nathan Fielder. It’s not all put on. And I suspect Nathan Fielder wouldn’t be…

I just want a talking head interview with everyone who went into the fake bar. 

Would be a bummer with no Mickey but I wouldn’t mind seeing her dragged into a gritty reboot of Room and Bored. 

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It was interesting to see Jesse return with the person he later dissolves. Maybe if Saul wasn’t such a good lawyer, the bathtub adventure might never have occurred. 

I think people’s reaction to this show says more about them than about the show. Fielder is not just some lazy creator coming to this process saying essentially “look at these idiots.”

*intentionally misses point, adjusts monocle, begins typing*

I wish the flashback had all been conducted with Jessie and Walt’s masks on — just to give an FU to all the BB nerds (which I am).

And Lost is basically Robinson Crusoe x Lord of the Flies x The Prisoner???? We can play this game all day long.

True, but those savings don’t go to creators. They go to financiers and shareholders. 

I love the theater but understand why not everyone does, but the biggest issue is $. The pay for writers, directors, actors, etc. is so vastly different between direct to streaming deals versus theater runs. Like Spotify, a bigger audience does NOT add up to a more lucrative distribution deal. Even for big studios.

This could be a badass show if it confronts his ownership of human beings. 

Sofia Coppola, Olivier Assayas, Sergio Leone — all were the products of nepotism. I don’t see the men benefiting from this system being targeted by sad hacks. Dry your tears and make something yourself.

That’s zero reflection on actors and 1000% a reflection on the fickle decision making of directors and executives. Imagine hiring someone for such a large sum and having the attitude that they can be cut out at any time. And of course the actor will inadvertently look like an asshole for getting a big paycheck even…

Give Henry Winkler’s eye/brow area a special Emmy, please!

Owning the cultural conversation is really beside the point (shows like Yellowstone are gigantic but hardly get the chatter of more “boutique” content like Succession).

My guess: Albert ends up with a bullet hole in the other cheek and doesn’t survive the season.

This is what happens when you have both fuck you money and fuck you ratings.