Greg: Once again the leakiest ship in all of Succession Land.

Given the strong performances on show, I think they’re in good hands. This is the true mettle of performance: not just in showy emotional work, but in the telling grace notes. And there were so many in the episode*: Kendall and Shiv holding hands on the way back to the other siblings, Tom’s attempt to ward off his…

I did something similar; I missed the first showing on HBO, so I tuned in for the second one...a little too early. I saw a shot of the ambulance on the tarmac without any other context (aside from some plaintive music), thought to myself “Oh, shit, this looks serious!”, and changed channels. My first thought was that…

Sweet Tea is basically just adult Kool-Aid; it’s really just sugar with the suggestion of tea flavor.

“If people better understood the nuances of milk as a seasonal product that gets richer in the winter and sweeter in the summer based on what the cows are eating, and saw the effort small dairy farmers put into producing that milk to help feed and keep rural communities alive, they might like milk better,” one of…

They made the radical shift from one messy, overcluttered design to...a different messy, overcluttered design. I’m sure some UX designer could tell me the value of these changes, but it seems mostly pointless.

You’re forgetting all those one-page slideshows on the site!

Yeah, get with it, AVC! Rome, the HBO show all the kids are talking about!

I dunno...it feels like this is the summit of his acheivement for him until he does something cunning or sneaky. Mind you, that’s how he got to this position, but the only people he’s got left to sell out are Greg and Logan himself*; the former has limited value as a sacrifice and the latter...well, do you really…

There really does need to be a catchy counter-”woke” insult trending out there, though I’m hard-pressed to figure out what it might be. “Asleep” would be the natural fit, but it isn’t quite as punchy as “woke”*.

Honestly, I feel like Tom has got to be lower.  He’s only able to exert power over Greg and his big power move--tying up the dicorce lawyers--was borrowed from someone else’s playbook.  For all his striving to get into this position as Logan’s right-hand man, it’s not really benefitted him all that much.  Whereas his…

Upon reading the headline, I was going to comment “No, book bannings were worse in the 80s”, but upon further thought, I think I agree with her. Back then, they were (mostly) not *explicitly* political; rather, they were usually kicked off by some concerned citizen’s group (although I suppose some of them might have…

3 Hours on and this article is still buried in no-man’s-land. How disappointing. I wonder if we could tempt Ziff Media to pick up this site, too.

I’d add Terry Crews and Nick Offerman to that list.  From the outside, they seem to embody all the traditional male signifiers/ideals, but they also manage to eschew and even speak out against the worst parts of masculinity.

Rifts:  For anyone whose favorite genre is “All of the Above”

Rifts:  when your favorite genre is “all of the above”

MTV does have a history of thoughtful reality shows

Wick is eventually presented with a work-around that Winston points out will give him a chance at what he claims to want: a definitive way out, a brokered truce.

Ahhh...the Great Depression, when you could sell a cracker on the promise that it was fancier than regular crackers.

In a weaker year, any of these might have won handily, but it’s been a pretty good year for movies, so there’s really no shame in losing to such stellar competition.