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  1. I like it. All the criticisms I'm seeing in reviews don't bother me. I like the character development and pace so far.

    I'm not bothered by the dramatizations and differences from the actual true story. I hope it continues to capture my attention throughout because I'm really looking forward to each episode and I haven't felt that way about a series in a while. 

    I love Lily Gladstone. I was heartbroken she didn't win the Oscar for Killers of the Flower Moon. I hope she has more chances for that kind of recognition in the future. She deserves it.

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  2. 52 minutes ago, Pete Martell said:

    I am at the point where I have to tune out any of the political material. I dread to think of how it's going to be next season, as the show is woefully unprepared or unqualified.

    If trump wins, I doubt they'll be a next year of SNL. He'll get rid of anything that would be making fun of him. People don't seem to be taking his stated agenda seriously.

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  3. 4 hours ago, Pestilentia said:

    and if it keeps me away from true crime that's only a good thing. 

    OMG how many of are there out there with this true crime addiction now? I have to have it on to go sleep these days! 

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  4. Wow, I thought there would be lots of comments on this show. For myself, I didn't quite know what to make of it. It was kind of terrifying, really. But I guess that was the point.

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  5. As a big fan of Nate's I enjoyed the show overall. As a scientist the measurements bit cracked me up the most. 

    I fast forwarded through Sarah's WU bit without even trying to see if it was funny. I'm old and have watched SNL from the beginning. I've never had an aversion to a cast member like I have to her. Yet I keep trying to give her a chance. I think I'm giving up now. 

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  6. 4 hours ago, drinkduff said:

    The thing about Barry is that he likes to say he wants to be a good person, he will try to stop killing people, but when it comes time for him to actually pay for what he's done, he never chooses the right path. He was only a good person if it didn't mean he had to be held responsible for his actions.

    Yes. As you said we saw this over and over. The worst part is, I wanted to believe he was a good person so I kept hoping he would be. That final time were he was faced with doing the right thing but it would be really hard and he started hedging it finally seemed more obvious to me. Yet at the end, after I'd given up hope for him, he finally might've done the right thing, for whatever reason.

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  7. 10 hours ago, Demian said:

    Agreed, and I also loved the music cues in that scene:  "Finally" and "More Than Words."  The last time I heard both pumped into a store as background Muzak was at a ShopRite on Staten Island (the one next to the mall, natch).  For some weird reason, they made perfect sense as background noise for a future Wal-Mart in Los Angeles where you can just walk out with an entire arms factory strapped to your back.

    And through the Kids' Toy section. The contrast, plus being actually plausible made that a great scene. 

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  8. 7 hours ago, Taget said:

    Tom almost played himself with Greg.  If he had just told Greg that as long as he is at the company he would be taken care of Greg would not have been so scared of Mattson.  Tom assumed Greg was too stupid to try to watch his own back.  And perhaps he had reason under normal circumstances to think that but given Greg had access to both sides that was risky.

    This was maybe stupid on Tom's part especially since Greg had certainly played both sides on multiple occasions. Or maybe Tom knew it would happen based on his knowledge that Greg was a weasel like he was.

    I can't get over how telling it was when Shiv got in the car with Tom and he put out his hand and she just laid her hand over his in such a meaningful gesture of the half relationship that they would have. I wish that had been the last scene, not Kendal, because Tom won (for now). 

    Again, Tom flipped the dynamic not only in power but in the actual feelings part of the relationship. He had wanted the marriage to work with some hints at actual love for Shiv. Then at the end Shiv seemed more vulnerable to actual feelings for Tom of at least for wanting to try again. Her keeping the baby might have made her want to stay with Tom on the emotional level.

    In the end, Shiv became one of the typical Roy women, and the other two remained the failures that they were. In that sense (plus the fact this was her deal, minus her actually being in charge) Shiv won more than the brothers.    

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  9. Just now, sistermagpie said:

    Although isn't she still way richer than him? Isn't just always funny to me that that's never the point with her.

    Oh for sure she's richer. But like you said that's not the point. They take all the rich stuff for granted. They just want power.

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  10. I generally liked all the other episodes but this one was horrible. I mean, they actually killed people? It was not consistent with the other episodes.

  11. On 5/15/2023 at 12:45 PM, MJ Frog said:

    I am pretty sure those were three different podcasts by three different people. He was shopping around until he got one that helped him justify this particular sin. And I love that the final Jesus-is okay-with-murder podcast was Bill Burr.

    And how fitting that the message of the podcast Barry got to say told him murder was ok came from Bill Burr.

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  12. 6 hours ago, coffe-and-gnomes said:

     

    "In an interview with Vanity Fair, Berman explains that she and Pulcini did not know that Shiv was pregnant on the HBO drama at the time because the episode 4 scene in which Snook's character learns this information had yet to be written.

    "We knew that Sarah was pregnant," she says. "But we didn't know that Shiv was going to be pregnant. We didn't have that specific piece of information when we shot it."

    Wow! Thanks. That's amazing. I guess I read more into that scene because of my knowledge that Shiv was pregnant.

  13. 19 hours ago, Penman61 said:

    I'm sorry, what? Do you have a link? This strikes me as...well, wrong. I mean, there's probably an occasional pick-up scene here or there out of sequence for location purposes, but I truly can't imagine they filmed this run of episodes so out of sequence that they didn't know Shiv was pregnant during that fight scene on the terrace. (Also, if I were Sarah Snook, as an actor I'd be pretty unhappy about filming the series' climactic marriage fight WITHOUT KNOWING MY CHARACTER WAS PREGNANT at the time. Tom's biggest insult to her in the scene is "You would be a bad mother!")

    Sorry, I just get protective of actors sometimes lol.

    Unless I get some kind of link for proof, at which time I'll kindly say my bad, I can't believe they filmed that Tom/Shiv fight without knowing her character was pregnant. They zoomed into her face at the perfect times for the audience to see how those words about motherhood affected her given the situation. It provided much of the conflict that made that scene so influential. 

    I could buy that maybe didn't know when they first wrote the script though. But not filming.

    On 5/10/2023 at 7:00 PM, Johnny Dollar said:

    I read an interview with the directors of this episode where they said that they didn’t know Shiv was pregnant because the pregnancy episode wasn’t even written yet when this episode was filmed. That would explain why Shiv doesn’t look pregnant, but certainly makes Tom’s crack about her not being a good mother quite ironic.

    It's perfectly reasonable for Shiv not to look pregnant when she is, according to the phone call and amnio timing less than 20 weeks pregnant. If each of these shows this season are supposed to represent roughly one day, she will not look pregnant even by the time series ends. 

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  14. 18 hours ago, Chicago Redshirt said:

     

    It could just be that the Succession writers wanted to make this a fair fight, because if Matsson was the avant-garde business genius that he had been portrayed as up to a couple of episodes ago, none of them would have had a fair shot. But if he's as big a screwup and a weirdo as any of them, maybe they can win.

    Frankly, even though I don't know how this will all play out, I find the Matsson blood brick stuff believable since we are now realizing real-life examples of such erratic behavior. The current owner of Twitter being the most spectacular example of erratic, unpredictable and self-sabotaging behavior.

    Again, don't know how it will all pan out but are they trying to tell us that these people at the top of such businesses are screw-up and weirdos like Roy kids, et al and Matsson with the occasional super competent yet unrewarded people like Gerri holding things together? If so, I'd believe it.     

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  15. I have to keep remembering that each episode this last season represents one day. So Shiv's pregnancy is never going to become obvious physically during these four more days left in the season. It will be entirely up to Shiv to reveal it to whomever she wants, or not. That power is something she will have for the rest of the show. 

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  16. Despite the fact that it's basically impossible to actually accomplish the promised goals in Living +, the idea itself has massive appeal to the unbridled capitalism minded people who think money alone can/should make them immortal. Part of Logan could never accept that he was going to die at some point. I've known people who thought their money could insulate them from the plights of the mere mortals below them. And that includes dying. 

    In a way, Living + is the perfect pitch to those people Waystar wants to attract. 

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  17. Wow, after thinking the first part showed that Roman and Kendall especially were careening toward disaster with their unhinged decision-making skills, Kendall actually pulls that shit off in the end. Say what you will about Jeremy Strong's "staying in character" all the time style of acting, but he has me on the edge of my seat in so many scenes. They are all outstanding though.

    Love the Tom and Shiv scenes. 

    If Greg ends up winning it all, it will seem to me like a total rip off of the the entire series, unless they can show something spectacular that we have not seen out of Greg, and at this late date I can't see that happening. It wouldn't be in character. I can't see them Game of Thronesing this thing on the way out. Not this show.

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