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Succession [HBO] *Spoilers*

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 945 ✭✭✭one armed dwarf


    Honestly, for the most part Succession is the kind of series where the nitty gritty details of the business are secondary to the low brow bitchiness, at times anyway

    I think all we know about GoJo is they are a tech startup with a streaming platform which has good technology behind it, better than the shite Waystar has. Also they have some gaming companies, or something? All that really matters I think is GoJo is a new media/technology company, riding the upward trend (at least, in the Succession verse) of the tech bubble.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 37,414 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    I think it's predominantly streaming, including sports, news, tech etc. I think Logan wanted to buy it because it'd help modernise Waystar.

    But yeah, all the business talk is white noise to me most of the time. In an earlier season there was a lot of talk over a possible 'bear hug' that went on for several episodes. Still not sure what it meant.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,230 ✭✭✭Officer999


    It still baffles me that Peep Show and Succession are written by the same guy.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,625 ✭✭✭✭yabadabado


    That was the case,Logan wanted it because it had a modern streaming service and Waystar was lagging way behind.Wanted to use Gojo to modernise Waystar.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,674 ✭✭✭El Gato De Negocios


    A bear hug is essentially an offer to buy a company for way over the market value and that is essentially too good to refuse / a forced sale.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,924 ✭✭✭Hodors Appletart


    GoJo is a netflix stand-in I think



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,809 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    All you need to know is that GoJo is internet tech like twitter facebook, whereas Waystar Royco is more 'legacy' media like TV channels and newspapers.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 864 ✭✭✭duffysfarm


    Whats going to happen in the final few episodes? I cant for one second see it been as easy as seliing the shares/company for the agreed price and everyone been happy



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,890 ✭✭✭Sudden Valley


    Tom and shiv were hilarious in the latest episode. I hope they get back together for real rather than just flings. The swedes plan mimics elon musks takeover of twitter, overbidding then trying to get out of agreed price. Roman and kendalls behaviour seems odd for two people also trying to get out of the deal.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,709 ✭✭✭shrewdness


    Roman and Kendall look like they're going off the deep end - even though Kendall seemed to pull it off in the end, I don't think it'll last long.

    Karl has really come into his own this season imo and I loved his talking to Kendall before the presentation. It's like he's all out of f*cks to give at this stage.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,252 ✭✭✭EltonJohn69




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 746 ✭✭✭al87987


    Karl is such a scene stealer this year, exceptional in the 3rd episode and brilliant talking to Kendall here. Should have a few more big scenes coming up with the state of the financials.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,228 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    I'm very late to this, only three episodes in, and honestly it's only the WTF moments that are keeping me watching. I really didn't need to see Roman wiping down his office window after ... ew.

    In its pure form, fascism is the sum total of all irrational reactions of the average human character.

    ― Wilhelm Reich



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 37,414 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    Probably best off staying clear of the thread for spoilers. But I will say the show can be a bit WTF at the start, but it is a very character-driven show which gets a bit less WTF (still WTF in places, but less), but has great comedic moments, dramatic stories and terrific characters as it goes on. Enjoy!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 37,414 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    Yeah, I went looking for a few memes of Peep Show this morning to give examples of why, and ended up thinking "Actually, I can see Roman saying that...", "That's just like Tom & Greg...." etc

    Obviously very different shows, but there's definitely signs of the same guy behind them.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,674 ✭✭✭El Gato De Negocios


    Solid episode again last night. Ken is being set up for a massive fall. His confidence is obviously at a low ebb and he is barely hanging on to his marbles. Roman too one feels could end with a tragic event. Shiv is the only one of the Roy offspring that is being calculated and cool in her actions. Herself and Tom to end up on top perhaps.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,933 ✭✭✭tesla_newbie


    I didn’t love last nights episode but you couldn’t continue the level of outstanding quality



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,713 ✭✭✭The White Wolf


    I don't think Shiv is any more on the level than the other 2. Sure she can see through their bullshit, but as Tom pointed out she's still trying to play both sides...and she's liable to have a meltdown at any point. She might get a more "successful" ending than Ken and Roman, but she'll always be on the outside looking in.

    They're all losers because of the path they are choosing and I expect the show to convey as much by the end.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 864 ✭✭✭duffysfarm


    i dont think any of the three kids will succeed in the end. i think they are all been set up for a big fall.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭mailforkev


    This week was a bit of a drop I thought, still decent though.

    I only realised yesterday that Karl is Sledge Hammer, I used to love that as a kid.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,052 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    That episode was a whole pile of nothing, just as well its finishing up it seems to have run out of steam.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 657 ✭✭✭rtron


    Thought this week's one was hilarious, you can really hear the peep show humour coming out in it.



  • Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 2,632 Mod ✭✭✭✭Nigel Fairservice


    He reminds me of Dick Moran in Glenroe in appearance.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,100 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    I dunno, I thought it was another high quality episode this week. Full of great moments: Karl letting the mask slip, Roman going on a firing binge, the tension of Kendall going through the presentation and some of Greg's antics had me laughing pretty hard.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,890 ✭✭✭Sudden Valley


    good episode this week. The tom and Shiv scenes are back to being brilliantly painful. Though the line " i have to ask my woman about Oman" was gold. Connor the only likeable sibling I think.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,159 ✭✭✭crushproof


    This season seems to be struggling through, some stellar lines as usual in this episode such as the argument on the balcony and Conor's postings to Somalia etc.


    Unfortunately the stellar moments are in between long drawn out scenes where much of the same as before happens.


    And no Karl, disappointing!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,137 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Should have taken Slovenia... nice spot on the Adriatic!

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,252 ✭✭✭EltonJohn69


    Did anyone else think initially that India was a ruse ?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,909 ✭✭✭FortuneChip


    That balcony confrontation between Shiv & Tom was terrifying. It was vicious.

    Their relationship is so volatile it's uncomfortable to watch them.

    Everything about them screams red-flags, but neither of them has the emotional intelligence to respond accordingly, and it's just been building and building.

    It goes all the way back to Season One. Free reign on Tom's stag, agreeing to an open relationship on your wedding day (where your ex is present). Shiv's nonchalance over Tom's impending trip to prison, Tom's beytrayal at the end of the last season.

    Then we get their play-fighting-flirting which seems to paper over cracks, but one small gesture (a cycnical gift from Tom followed by Shiv's public snide comments) and the paper gives way to the actual chasm between them.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,713 ✭✭✭The White Wolf


    I never really paid attention to the whole "who will win" debate as I found it to be a redundant question, but Kendall seems to be doing it.

    He'll still be an empty shell by the end, but he seems to be revelling in pulling everything off while the others are falling apart. He's almost preying on them. The more Roman **** up the easier it will be to get rid of him, and Kendall is observing it with a smile on his face, masking his glee as encouragement.

    With Shiv I think he knows she's helping Mattson as well, but he doesn't have to do anything there as Shiv will dig her own grave.

    He's gone full psycho. Not like Logan, but his own unique type of monster capable of being at the top.



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