The mobile view of lists and articles on the av club is basically non-functional for me. In the course of trying to read this recap, the site refreshed itself 4 times, and the view constantly jumps up and down because the off-screen ads are doing something weird (resizing, perhaps?). This was on Safari on IOS.

I don’t think Kendall is in a loop, at least in a short term; I think he’s been riding a manic bubble and it’s about to burst (or has just burst). Previous setbacks this season have all just been ploughed straight through, mostly through denial and trying to cut the ‘toxic personalities’ out of his life. This week he…

We really not talking about Greg & Tom’s scene in the compliment tunnel?! That was one of the funniest scenes of the season, if not the series.

Roman, who now firmly is in the “Damn, dude, really?” category of bad behavior on this show.

This may not have been one of Tom’s more endearing episodes (although I truly think “none of this will amount to anything, Tom will learn nothing” has been in the cards for a while), but I really appreciated Matthew Macfayden’s coke jaw on the ride home. That was a nice touch.

Kendall upset about missing Sophia and Iverson’s present got to me. “They made it for me… supposedly.” It reminded me of when he did his (admittedly awful) L-to-the-O-G rap for Logan’s birthday. Personal birthday presents apparently matter to Kendall.

Well Ridley, I think you owe an entire generation of moviegoers an apology. Also, you owe me about $10 for Alien: Covenant.

At least it’s not a “bait a director into criticizing Marvel movies” day.

Aidy, Cecily, and Kate are some of the most talented people the show has ever had, but they need to go. SNL has taken them as far as it can and Lorne used to fire successful cast members after 7ish years and that was for a good reason. Kenan’s part of the furniture at this point.

It was all the rage not too long ago:

I’m not gonna tell Veep to cut back on the insults—it would be like telling Babe Ruth to maybe ease up on the home runs a bit. The trouble is:

The problems with Veep were that they lost confidence in the show’s initial premise and spent too much time doing ridiculous presidential election/succession arcs, and that they developed an absurdly large cast of characters and seemingly guaranteed each of them at least two improv scenes per show; the show became…

He’s always been pretty protective of Greg, though.  During boar on the floor, he didn’t narc out Greg as the source of the leak (I know he ultimately wasn’t, but both he and Greg thought Greg was).

Have you seen him in Pride & Prejudice? I caught the scene in the rain the other night and he was just heart breaking.   He has the goods.  And in interviews he’s just delightful. 

I have a real feeling that everything is going to be alright with Tom and that once it does, he’ll go back to being human furniture, especially to Shiv, while continuing to punch down on Greg. We’re seeing it in this episode that despite the Roys essentially throwing him to the wolves, he’s still slavishly devoted to…

But they do that gd cake-off every damn season. Hell the Target commercial is a retread too. Are these all Mikey Day skits that went over well once so he gets to do it every holiday now?

Mathew Macfadyen is so damn good.  Tom and Greg moments are friggin’ magic.  The quality of this show keeps going strong, I’m very impressed.

There are times when an episode of SUCCESSION really allows one of the supporting actors to shine.  Mathew Macfadyen  was absolutely terrific tonight.  Scene after scene his malaise rippling across his face, his eyes watering almost as if to break in tears.    Just remarkable delivery,  the diner scene most…

I find a few things interesting here:

he was saying no matter how many “first Asian” prizes Simu wins, Bowen will always be able to better him by being “first gay Asian” to do the exact same thing, which in this comedic game of one-upsmanship is just one notch more unique that therefore takes precedence (as represented by the final heightening of the…