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Kieran Culkin on Fresh Air. https://www.npr.org/2021/12/06/1061232763/succession-actor-kieran-culkin

The employer in this case is Bravo. If they have a problem with that argument or Rayna back talking to Jake, they could have chosen not to air the footage. Instead, they got it, edited it and broadcasted it. If they object to her behavior, they could have fired her right then and there. They still could. No doubt they will have a scene of Lee lecturing her about chain of command or being professional in front of guests. All for show. Bravo loves this conflict.

I thought the kid grabbed the wheel to swerve away from the deer./ In any event, Logan had a run in with the same kid earlier and he may have been where Kendall found him, to ask if he could get drugs, because Logan had him fired and the kid was just hanging out outside?

The question is, would Kendall having minimal interaction with his family, no role in the business, still make for interesting story lines for his character? It would be better if he removed himself from that toxic situation but would it be as entertaining? One of the Murdochs son left the family business. I don't know if he cut off ties with the family or if he's done anything interesting since leaving. Still very rich but I don't think he's speaking out against his family or the business. So what would Kendall do if he's not engaging in constant putdowns with his siblings and father?

It's a TV show. Rayna and Jake are both playing roles. But whatever, it's a short-term job. There's only so much BS one should endure. The money isn't worth it, she can find other jobs.

So they write Kendall off the show because he's moody and so Method that the other cast members find him weird? It's interesting though that he wanted to play Roman initially and had to talk Jesse Armstrong into auditioning for Kendall. Whatever the original plan, Kendall has been a key character. It would be weird if it came down to Roman vs. Shiv. The dynamics would be way off.

No right? No freedom of speech? I wouldn't put up with Mustache Bro's BS either.

Finished season 2 in a couple of days. Don’t know if it will be renewed but it could serve as series finale. The characters all seem to have changes in their arcs by the finale. Second season didn’t feature as much cultural adjustments as the first season. Miri still wants to try sushi and she did use a mobile phone but it was a flip phone. She finally gets a driver license. She may convince Billy, her bf, to leave the small town with her. Show could continue but maybe it would no longer feature the original premise so it could be rebooted in another place, with new challenges than trying to put her past behind her. Or it could just end. Breeders also seem to be in a similar limbo.

Loners don’t deserve to work? Does service require being unnaturally positive? Is Heather’s preening and cheerful game face for the guests preferable to the more subdued but polite demeanor from Jessica? Yeah she probably doesn’t love the job in the way Heather and Fraser did. Nor does she like them or they like her. But is this anything new on any of the BD shows? There’s ALWAYS drama and conflict among the cast, which Bravo wants since people behaving badly and becoming villains on their shows is good for ratings. Specifically, when has there not been bullying, cliques ganging up on someone in the BDverse? It’s happening to Rayna and Wes too. The supervisors are probably encouraged to look for reasons to “fire” cast members, which is a staple of BD and reality shows in general. People are voted off the island, sent into elimination, or on BD shows, replaced by backup cast members. It’ll happen on every future season of every BD show. The only wrinkle with Jessica is she’s too mopey. Who knew that was a fire-able offense? I don’t know why they got pissed by the slide. It looks like a lot of fun for the guests but a PITA to set up and put away. So they’re no used to setting that thing up quickly. If it needed to be put out quickly, why didn’t they have Jake do what Wes apparently didn’t do well? He has all the experience. They just had him upstairs operating the pump.

Presumably if it was poisoned, Kendall would have stopped the kid from eating the food.

Thought maybe Richard Lewis had cancer but it’s back problems followed by slipping and shattering his shoulder. Looks older than his 74 years of age. Same age as Larry, who looks old but seems fit, able to move well. Wonder if he still plays golf frequently.

It was okay. Still think the chemistry among the characters was more cracking in the first couple of seasons. Issa is together with Nathan but she thinking still about Lawrence, is the takeaway? For me the biggest potential takeaway is whether Doritos in cookie dough is a real thing. Hey in the previous season, Issa made herself a late night snack, just throwing cheese on tortillas and microwaving it. I’ve bought some tortillas and shredded cheese since then.☺️ Or maybe it’s the soggy joints that make these snack mashups work.

That's the most sedate impression I ever recall Tracy Ullman doing. Most of them are kind of over the top. I haven't seen her in anything though in over a decade.

They must be getting some positive feedback. Or maybe women need to come up with better ways to express that those dick picks are not appreciated. Like emasculate the senders -- "you call that a dick?" or "your balls must be huge for you to send that out" -- make it clear that their dicks are not all that.

I've heard that Lukas may be based on the founder of Spotify. $100k bed? Yikes.

Among the families on which the Roys are modeled are the Murdochs. One of the Murdoch sons did leave the company with people speculating that he didn't like the political role their media properties played in several countries. I think Kendall and Shiv really are interested in changing that culture though it's easier to talk of change when you're not sitting on that chair. But Waystar has dwindling assets so maybe it's not that big of a loss. IRL, Fox News is highly profitable, as are the rest of News Corp but Logan said another 4 years of cord-cutting and they'd be in real trouble. Logan said he's a revolutionary for finding ways to monetize political polarization. But in the family, it appears only Roman and maybe Connor are on that train. Remember, the season 1 political discussions in the family, with Marcia confronting Shiv for helping a political figure who wanted to hurt the family's interests. They wore her down and eventually she quit her career abruptly, just as she may have risen to some heights in politics if Not Bernie Sanders won the presidency. Shiv quitting doesn't mean that she was necessarily abandoning the politics she espoused so much as she's driven more by familial politics, daddy's approval.

BTW he was trying to impress the Contessa with his broken, overpriced watch. She probably spends more in a month on clothes than what Greg paid for that watch.

So Larry is going to run a long con on Irma and the city council to rescind that law about fence around the pools just so he doesn't have to cast her in the show? He's gonna canvass as part of this ruse? He could easily pay off Maria's father. He's not especially a cheapskate. He's grumbled about some expenses here and there but he's spending that cash. Of course Larry is going to do things the hard way and he will always keep making enemies. He challenges the widow for abusing widow privileges while now he's going to mock Asa's sexual abuse story.

They're all there because whenever the show has these big events, in exotic, grand locations, the whole cast gets together. I forget who said it but the show runners and the writers see these big ensemble events as a chance to get the ensemble cast firing on all cylinders. Think of all the big events or gatherings they've had over the course of the series.

Logan is desperate for the deal. He just wants to know if Lukas is a serious guy. Did he use "sicko" the same word he put to Roman? Of course they're going to have a big extravagant Tuscan wedding. These big gatherings are Succession's special sauce, when the excellent ensemble cast all get their chances to solo. Reality shows with big casts also have big parties, in hopes that people get drunk and have fights or at least arguments. Succession is way more deft in handing the multiple convos which happen at these events And I want to know the villa where they all arrived (with the rows of cypresses lining the only road to the villa), the villa with the pool overlooking the Tuscan hills that Kendall was at, the restaurant with the balcony in the little town they took over for the bachelorette party, Lukas' lakeside villa (somewhere in Switzerland they said but could have been Lake Como). Yeah that was some talk between Caroline and Shiv, while they had a fag. They accused each other of being shitty parent and daughter, human beings overall. That got Shiv all hopped up, she returns home, says "lets have a baby" because her mother said she shouldn't have children. Next morning, Shiv is talking about another contract between them (like the open marriage deal she made him agree to the night before their wedding), where they could bank the embryos and there would be specific terms about whether they're entitled to them if either of them should die or become incapacitated. You know, she was talking to her mother about prenups the night before so why not talk about postnups the day after? Connor is worried about a reporter digging into Willa's past, how it might hurt his candidacy. So he decides to propose to her? How would that fix the potential optics problem with her past? As for her, why is she thinking on it? She's been with him for 3 years (or maybe in the show timeline, it's only been a year or so since the family was opening mocking him about her being a call girl in season 1). She may still be looking for love elsewhere but she also seem to be quite cozy with the lifestyle that Connor has given her -- is she still going out on her own to get Starbucks? She's not getting any younger so does she think she can bag another guy worth at least 9-figures? Greg is trying to climb the ladder, going for the Contessa, who's an Instagram model for some yogurt water thing. Already over Comfry but setting his sights on someone who thinks Roman is some catch? We know it can't be that she's in "sexual thrall" to Roman. I don't know how Roman is all of a sudden this whiz about market valuations, future revenue potential of Asian sports streaming and such. He doesn't seem the type to look at financial statements or market research. Sure they established that he has great intuition, like the deal he was trying to broker in season 2. But how would he know if Gojo is going to become much bigger. It was Kendall's idea to acquire Gojo. They know they have to acquire a growing business, since the Waystar business units are not growing or even shrinking. Roman gets excited about something at the meeting that he sends the dic pic to the worst person he could have sent it to. Maybe Logan can't trust his judgement but he's going to protect him by firing Gerri? For a second, I thought Roman might retort to Logan that him sleeping with Kerrie is sick. But he slunk away with his tail between his legs. They are playing games with Kendall and that last scene. In one of the cuts for the previews in the finale, you have Logan with his arm around Iverson and not a single shot of Kendall. Just wouldn't be the same without Kendall, unless they planned to never have him be a contender again. I thought during their dinner, Logan was possibly being conciliatory, by not being his usual blustery self, like constantly shouting expletives at him.

It seems definite that Harrison slashed Ethan first, not in reaction to an attack. Has he killed already? They're not saying yet. He was going to leave town but Caldwell convinced him to stay because of a dinner and a job offer? If he has a need to kill, it seems a small town is not the best place to evade capture, the presence of Dexter and Caldwell notwithstanding. Too many people being murdered or going missing would be too obvious and attract LEO attention, not to mention podcasters like Molly. But there would be a lot of national media and that would bring state police and FBI. It's easier to drop a lot of bodies in Miami before the cops notice.

Yeah loved Crime Story.

Well if he can see the cops pull up and still have time not just to clear out the kill room (without leaving something behind by accident) and re-dress the corpse and move him to another room, I guess he doesn't have much to worry, the way he can time warp his acts like that. I really wondered though, he knew the vet and the vet knew him, so he took ketamine and if they autopsy the pill maker and the dealer, the pattern of both being injected with ketamine will raise all kinds of flags. In fact if the dealer is alive, he can claim he never takes ketamine. Didn't the special drug he used in Miami to inject his targets turn out be almost impossible to trace? But I thought the properties were so unique that if it's not a widely used drugs, it should be easier to track. I must have missed something, that Angela knew the name "Dexter Morgan" to look it up in the first place. Did Angel say he worked with a Dexter Morgan who had a son named Harrison? Odds are low that Dexter's old and new worlds would collide like that but maybe having Angel appear was fan service, especially if that's the one and only time we see him this season. Also, Audrey in a room full of kids hopped up on multiple pills and booze finds it significant that Harrison, while being very high, said Jim Findlay is not his real name. Harrison barely survived but she's going to remember Harrison saying that out of all the things happening that night? And she tells Angela and she finds it to be a big deal? Again, how did she know to search for Dexter Morgan? Makes sense that she would be curious about her boyfriend. But she also found on her trip that Caldwell was lying about Matt. You'd think that would preoccupy her at least as much, considering she's the police chief. Caldwell being so emo about The Runaways, especially the chorus, is a little too on the nose since he's the Runaway Killer. But he apparently has people working for him, including the guy who pretended to be Matt. Yet someone must have noticed how he always chats up these young women, offering them money and places to stay. Again that cabin must be miles away from anyone else. Nobody spots him herding these young women into some basement, hear the shots or see the footprints and the blood spilled.

Be interesting to know how long after filming the episode shows up on the air. would it be the next episode with her in it? Or maybe they filmed several episodes with her that hasn't been aired yet, still editing it and so on.

I got an email this week, even though I canceled Hulu about a month or two ago.