I wish they had saved this for the end of the season. His relationship with Gerri being exposed by his childishness/obsessiveness/need, kneecapping them both, and Gerri distancing herself even more from him as a result would have put him into even more of a headspace for bunking up with Josh Hawley’s much more…

I know Braun has teased several times that Greg is ruthless enough to betray Tom, so I won’t be surprised if that happens, but I think that would have had more dramatic impact last season. I could also see him just continuing to bumble his way up the ladder, especially if a big name like Kendall or Tom goes this…

Greg’s whole arc this season has been that he is no better than his family, regardless of expectation, and is generally petulant/incompetent on top of that. He wanted a date with Comfry because it was what he was supposed to want, to make him happy. It didn’t, because like his family, he is narcissistic to the core…

That’s one of the reasons why I didn’t  really disagree with Jeremy Strong not taking the show as a comedy. It is basically a tragedy with  good one-liners. 

I suppose it would just reinforce for Logan that Roman is still too unreliable, especially with involving Gerri, who knows where all the bodies are buried. I have seen a lot of fan speculation about whether any of this ties to a possible reveal that Roman was sexually abused as a child. I am not sure the show would…

There were complaints about this earlier in the season - one that went semi-viral claiming that the show had become too focused on creating fodder for the “no context Succession” (or whatever it’s called) Twitter account, people that claimed Tom and Greg scenes this season were just fan service, etc.

Matthew Macfadyen and Sarah Snook were just gutwrenchingly superb in this episode. That scene between them was almost impossible to watch, but the intimacy and the reality in the performances meant you had to follow through. This was what the Scenes from a Marriage remake kept telling us it was going to do, but never…

Given  Noonan’s track record of bizarre and horrid opinions, I had to check to make sure  one wasn’t hers.

It was incredibly shitty to air out dirty laundry this way to the press when Ferrell has not said anything - even when Ferrell had a big profile a month or two ago in Hollywood Reporter where he was talking about changes in his career over the last few years, a perfect opportunity, he said nothing.

I notice the recappers for the show (just in general) don’t say much about Tom and Greg beyond the basics, which I get, because you can already read 50000 word meta out there an the main thrust of the show isn’t about them. But the characters do have a consistently fascinating relationship and I’m glad the show chose…

I think this is beautifully stated (probably more than my somewhat glib comment deserved, so thanks for opening my eyes a bit). My issue is more that I don’t entirely feel the patterns you describe have been depicted as well this season as they could have been. I think the 9 episode runtime hurts the story’s…

How long before we get the Kendall fan edits to “It’s My Party and I’ll Cry If I Want To”? I don’t think I have been that depressed watching a birthday party sequence since Problem Child. I’m not even being sarcastic. Jeremy Strong is consistently excellent at wringing sympathy out of Kendall even when I don’t think…

It was nice they had the little moment where Willa stood up for him, just to show not every relationship on the show is toxic. 

I feel like we are getting somewhere in the slow burn with Tom/Shiv/Greg. Shiv knows more every week that she can’t go anywhere at Waystar. Shiv and Tom have lost all rapport with each other, their sex life is marred by a complete lack of trust after the babytrapping, and they may be near a point where Logan ends up…

I think some hate themselves (looking at the photos of Don Jr. over the last 4-5 years kind of says it all), but the difference with fictional characters is we can make them our own. We can write their endings, if we wish. Or we can just say, “Oh, I am only watching for the actor.” You can’t do that with real…

Usually longtime people who didn’t want to leave were fired by NBC in insisting on budget cuts. I guess that hasn’t happened in a while. That and before now many longtime cast members were more willing to leave.

If he wasn’t constantly busy I’d ask when they would book Mads Mikkelsen for an arc. 

It’s been a while so I may be mistaking commentary here for elsewhere, but I didn’t think the first season was that well liked here either.

I think that was supposed to be Josh Hawley, who has all the charisma of a dead fish. It’s difficult to find a Justin Kirk in real life, so they will probably end up going with someone like DeSantis. 

You’re probably right. A part of me thinks having them involved with an extremist Presidential candidate, even those like Shiv who convince themselves they are good people, is the show saying there is no going back and we aren’t going to have the “luxuriate in the awfulness until the downbeat final scene that makes…