There’s something appropriate about where characters ended up, and I was ready for that, but ...
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I remember watching an explanation about why Succession used those zooms the way they do. It was a good explaination, but it still wasn’t something I cared for.
Irrational mood swings. Pregnancy, amirite?
“Snitching on par with 7th Heaven.”- Lol! so true
I’m willing to bet the writers felt that an ending where Kendall gets it would be criticized for being too obvious, and then they’d have a finale accused of playing it safe. Gotta have that rug pull. Shiv’s flip gets to be the inverse of what they did to her during the election, so I accept it as narrative synergy…
Regulars like Higgins (Jeremy Swift) and Dr. Sharon (Sarah Niles) went to the back burner
I presume Keeley and Jamie are close to the same age, and she looked like an adult in the poster so that may have been a later addition to the room.
We’ll be sourpusses together. The Walmart scene is as pointed a satire as Barry has ever been about a single issue, and it might be amusing on its face, but I don’t know if I’m in a place where I can still laugh at gun jokes like that. Moments later a child was literally in the middle of a shootout. Maybe it’s not…
Print the legend of Barry, and that’s all everyone will ever know. It doesn’t matter that he was a man with no heart.
Yea, it says “Wow” on my HBO Max thingy, too
I’m in the same ballpark, but I feel reversed in that I think they very much have the “why” locked down, and it’s the conceptual parts that need to improve.
Hmm. I might be able to say this about Jack Nicholson. But DeNiro? I think he plays variations on a “persona”, but they are subtly different enough to me.
There is no greater example of how public opinion can get hijacked over time, than with LOST. The narrative that it is one of TVs worst finales is bullshit, not just because I disagree, but because it actually is bullshit. Entertainment Weekly, IGN, The LA Times, The Chicago Tribune, USA Today... all favorable to…
Exactly. And furthermore, and lot of the tv we’re enjoying today owes their existence to LOST. Somehow one of the biggest pop culture phenomenons of the past few decades, is finding itself becoming under-appreciated.
I’d call it great. It hits emotional highs for me, few finales have.
Samesies. But I guess I watched the show with different eyes because I didn’t care as much about the questions as I did the characters, so what they did answer, sufficed for me.
Season 4 might be my favorite seasons as well, but I remember season 6 and its flash sideways having fanbases at a fever pitch of hype. Perhaps the finale retroactively soured folks on the last season as a whole, but at the time, it was almost exclusively high marks from critics, episode after episode (except for the…
What’s even crazier is pretending the LOST finally wasn’t critically well received when it aired, (including from this very site).