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Covid is not the best thing to happen to anyone.

Yeah I saw that on Tivo. Maybe they're not getting enough people to subscribe to Paramount Plus. Maybe ad revenues weren't enough.

Thing about Logan promising Tom to take care of him is that he's also promised his children many things and we see how that turned out. Tom's observation should not be that Logan never gets fucked but that Logan always fucks over others. If he's going to screw over his kids, why wouldn't he screw Tom over? Even in that last confrontation, he was trying to lie to Roman and then Shiv. They kind of wised up but I wouldn't be surprised if in future seasons, they're tempted again.

The N word would be called a fighting word, defined by courts as something that would incite violence. For that reason, courts have allowed statutes to prohibit fighting words. Rayna could have called her out right when it happened. Or she might not have known what to do in front of the camera in that moment but later decided she had to say something. She doesn't forfeit her right to be offended because she didn't respond right away. Just a song lyric? Are there exemptions for racial slurs? Are they okay in some situation?

It's a reality show staple, for the cast to periodically go out and get plastered. The first season after the pandemic, BD or BDM kept the crew on the boat for at least half a season and they just drank and got in the hot tub on the yacht rather than go out to restaurants and bars. Several of the crew would probably rather not hang out with others but not going out on these outings is not an option.

The writers may not have delved too much into the succession line for the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. They might have prioritized other details. The point is to show what a climber and star fucker Greg is. He didn't like her because he found her attractive. He liked the status and the fact that Roman was chatting her up. The whole "out of your league" ribbing probably made him try to climb the dating ladder or whatever that phrase Tom and Shiv told him about.

Looks like Heather and Fraser will drive off Jess. After all, it's not BD if some stew isn't getting replaced. Lee threatening to cancel the rest of the season. Yeah then will Bravo pay his salary for the whole season? Yes, because he can't cancel anything and he's saying it for the cameras. Let's see they have replacement cast members lined up for every position, deck, interior or chef. Does Bravo have replacement captains lined up as well? Rayna overreacts to any possible slights. Her father tells her to stand up for herself. But that probably causes more friction than it's always worth. But before another black woman is labeled as "difficult" are they absolutely sure Jake is completely faultless? If previous pattern holds, they will say everything has improved by the last couple of charters and they will end the season with hugs and kisses as they go off. But in the middle, there has to be conflict and discontent about how things are going.

They have a different story than what the cops suspect happened (same shooter killed both of them, not her mother killing her father first). But they're also not familiar with how the cops would be interrogating them. They don't say why Susan chose to get a solicitor, even though she repeatedly goes against his advice, while he didn't. Christopher meanwhile volunteers a lot, probably too much for their own good. Seems the police don't have physical evidence implicating them, such as the murder weapon or prints or any kind of DNA. So this heavy interrogation is an attempt to get them to confess. Truth is, despite them being naive about their situation, they evaded detection for 15 years. But why run away to France? They could have stayed in the UK and he would have found work so that they didn't have to reveal the case to anyone -- he called her stepmother and explained why they needed money. Or if they're going to leave England/UK, they could have gone to a Commonwealth nation like Canada or Australia. However, maybe it would have been easier to extradite them back to the UK from those countries as opposed to France. Again, the police didn't know about the demise of her parents though, which is strange, you'd think the various govt. social services would be aware of them missing. Were the parents receiving any kind of benefits and Susan and Christopher were cashing those checks? But it looks like only murder is on the table, nothing like fraud or theft.

Regardless, if you can't see that Ullman is playing the character in a certain way, that's your prerogative but it's pretty obvious. She must not be too worried about how older women characters may come off.

No Tracy Ullman is playing her as unappealing in certain ways. The way she eats, the way she barks at him, the way she scratches herself. It's not age alone that is suppose to make her disgusting. He didn't make one comment about her age as the reason why he's repelled.

I don't quite see working with NBW and with Crenshawn as being separate paths where she can do one or the other. Why couldn't she do both? She's worried about selling out? First she's excited to get the email from NBW to see how much they'd offer her. Then she sees a big ad for NBW on a bus running through Inglewood. Isn't that what she was positioning BLOCC as, helping companies access the market she knows so well? She seemed to like living in a nice house, though maybe not with Nathan there necessarily. Even if she ultimately wants Lawrence, it shouldn't affect her professional decisions. And again, there is no reason why she can't work with Crenshawn and local artists as well as with a corporate sponsor like NBW. That is unless I missed something and Crenshawn and Anthology Collective both told her they won't work with someone who represents corporations. If she had to choose between clients, NBW may make more sense while Crenshawn may not know about how to get permits and doing all the little things to open stores and so forth, it's something he can eventually have employees do those functions. She would be a middleman with maybe not a long-term prospect. BLOCC would be a middleman with BLOCC as well but that's a more common type of business relationship, where companies would pay to get access to new markets. Potential for several other clients of this type long term. Molly should know all about the importance of wills given her profession. But she's more nagging at her parents, who can discount her repeated requests to take care of their wills somewhat. So coming from Kelli, they seem more receptive to the message. Still not sure if they are pairing Molly with Taurean because they always planned it that way or because they ran out of ideas and decided to use a minor supporting character as the man in her life -- at least as the series ends.

Many of the relationships are implausible. They try to mine comedy out of them. In this episode, it's Jeff trying to avoid being caught with the lilac body wash but giving the game away with the ba-dum-bop, which Larry objects to. House Husband was Leon opining on things he had no business opining about. When Larry opines on things, he's annoying but Leon's blunders are going to cost several people thousands of dollars. THat Larry would bed Irma is absurd. He may want the Hulu show but not that bad. Worse comes to worse, he could buy off the father of the bad actress. Trying to remember if Larry has done things he doesn't want to do. I guess he's gone along with things that Cheryl demanded, like having the Blacks live in their house, putting up with the recycled toilet paper. But I don't think Larry David is interested in some coherent characterization of the LD character or him having a specific philosophy. LD will be malleable to whatever he thinks will produce the best comedy.

If he went to the kids and say we have to sell, make this deal, because Waystar is declining and make the case that this is the best deal they can get now, maybe the kids buy in, even if it means they're cut off from running a big corporation. But he kept them out of the negotiations. He pulled in Gerri, Frank, Karl and outside bankers but he did it in secrecy from the kids. THAT is why they're peeved. A couple of seasons ago they had a family meeting about whether they should sell to Sandy and Stewy. I think Willa offered and opinion and someone mocked her, "oh good, Willa thinks we should ..." I don't think the kids expressed previously they they must have a role in the company going forward. It's more like Tom saying "what's there going to be for me?" So Logan wasn't so much rejecting the kids from significant roles in the future so much as just not even listening to their input. He was making the decision without them. BTW, does this mean no more Stewy/Sandy/Sandi and we will have some Lukas in season 4?

Roman says this, in an attempt to console Kendall about the kid who died in England in season 1. "I mean, who hasn't clipped the odd kid with a Porsche, am I right? I mean, it's like a rite of passage. I've killed a kid too, big deal." Turns out some scion of one of the richest Brazilian families ran over some kid with an expensive sports car. Family paid a lot of money not to have the son prosecuted.

"Well, we just walked in on Mom and Dad fucking us." "So, how do we feel about killing Dad? Mixed feelings?" "Pass me the fucking shotgun." "We fucking take Mussolini away in a van to the hospital, take over the radio stations." "Where do you think we fit on Matsson's new org chart, Rome?" "He'll Romanov you and take you to the cellar and that's that." "Please, man. I can't." "Okay, yeah. You're right. I guess I'm just trying to say, like, who's the real victim here? I waited three quarters of an hour for a gin and tonic." "I mean, who hasn't clipped the odd kid with a Porsche, am I right? I mean, it's like a rite of passage. I've killed a kid too, big deal." "I'm a killer." "Fuck you. Bullshit. Come on. At worst, you're... you're an... irresponsibler, okay? You're bigging yourself up." "He's working on his baby batter." "Dad's putting together a more adhesive and potent gloop." "Look at all the walnuts he's been munching! He's gonna be rocking sperms like a little catfish." "Dad's scrambling the fighters." "Hey. What's going on?" "Uh... nothing. Just Dad cranking up the trebuchet." "Do you want me to come with you, Dad?" "No. Stay here and play with your dick." "Let's go see Hans Christian Anderfuck and see if he's been telling us fucking fairy tales." "So, what is it son? Are you scared of pussy? Is it all screens or up the ass with you, or what?"

Article on the Italian villas on which they shot the Italy episodes, S03E08 and S03E09. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/succession-filming-locations-italy-villas-season-three-1235061471/ La Foce is partially a public venue, where you can visit the gardens for 10 Euros. They really didn't show an overhead of the manicured gardens. Nearby there is an iconic winding road lined with cypresses. Drone shots would have been stunning but I don't think they wanted to detract from the characters having their convos. Needless to say, they got access to places which only the 1% can afford. But it's not just the beauty of these place as there is great history, like the previous people in charge of one of these villas hiding Jews from Nazis in the gardens.

Never bored. If you're expecting a lot of action and "movement" Succession was never that show. The events are things like some charity dinner in season 1 where Logan spoke for the first time since he was hospitalized. Or the family going to New Mexico to have a family therapy weekend. Or all the different family gatherings they've had over the years, like the hunting lodge for Boar on the Floor. Not a lot happening at these events rather than the characters being their glorious awful selves. People who think the point of the show is Logan choosing one of them are wrong. It's about the journey, with the great dialogue (putdowns) acting and writing.

For a second, as they went to confront their father, the Roy kids were asking each other were they ready to kill their father -- push him out of the company. As they were driving, I thought there is no way they're going to end the Logan character, he's too central. Just as they were not going to kill off Kendall with at least two more seasons left.

She's Rubenesque. She's got baby bearing hips. Baby got Back!

Marriage proposal seemed to be comic relief. Especially Willa saying "fuck it" because she didn't know if there was going to be something better. Maybe she was planning to seduce one of Musk's sons or something. Will they ever have a serious story line for Connor? Doesn't seem like.

They were never united until this episode. Kendall proposed that they team up and they wouldn't do it. Kendall should have said "I told you so, we should have killed him (Logan) back when we had the chance." I guess they softened a little because of Kendall's almost suicide/accident. Roman trying to belittle Kerry by asking her to bring him food and her retort about getting him the kid's menu should have been a tipoff that Roman was ready to screw over all the kids. Then Logan emasculating him, asking him if he was scared of pussy on the boat ride to see Lukas. Then being dismissed like a child to attend to mommy while Logan remained to talk real business with Lukas. Then Connor's theory that dad was trying to father a new child, so Logan was trying to replace them. But when they got together to talk about Logan possibly cutting them out of the deal, Roman was the holdout. Of course he was in denial. What should have united them was not necessarily Kendall unburdening himself and Shiv and Roman consoling him and Roman making him laugh by making jokes but the fact that Logan had screwed over each of them. Well Roman didn't know it yet but he had a strong suspicions or should have. Shiv should have treated Tom better over the years or months. Or maybe not tell him their plan and promising him "something high." That sounds like a politician making a false promise that he has no intentions of keeping. She should not have talked shit to her mother either, because after that talk, why should Caroline care if she undermined her and her brothers' positions? (I'm just wondering when Gil and Nate will screw her over). That was the longest fucking ride ever. They called people from that van, including Shiv calling Tom. By the time they arrived at Logan's villa, Tom had snitched to Logan and Logan had bribed Caroline. Shiv mentioned Castelluccio? That's the eastern side of Umbria and they're suppose to be in southern Tuscany or the Chianti area. But Greve in Chianti (not sure that's where they were) to Castelluccio is over 3 hours! Logan must not have had specific plan to tell the kids about his deal. He told Roman and then Shiv that Lukas "rates" them meaning thought of them highly to give them real responsibilities and power? He was lying to their faces and then finally pulled out the trump card, Caroline lying to their faces. What recourse do they have? Well Waystar is going to get a record fine but no jail time for anyone. So what happened to the docs that Greg hid for the second time? Maybe he's too preoccupied with his hard-on for Greenpeace and his lust for the contessa/princess -- who's more preoccupied with her social media brand even though she stands to inherit the Duchy of Luxembourg?

So The Arrangement is not a side plot. Shiv held Tom at arm's length since that talk before the wedding night. He told her he didn't like the arrangement at the end of season 2, hasn't been happy. Then after the emotionally bruising chat with her mother, on the eve of her wedding night, Shiv goes in on Tom, with the whole let's have a baby, let's freeze embryos talk. She at one point tells Tom that she doesn't love him, that she's out of her league. So s-s-shocker, Tom doesn't feel a compunction to be loyal to her. First Logan betrays Shiv after making a promise to her, then Tom, then Caroline. Shiv belittled Tom and Caroline. It's not clear why Logan turned on her. Maybe he remembers the days when she worked for Not Bernie Sanders, attacking his politics and business practices.

Did Dexter actually kill innocents or those who threatened to reveal his crimes? He imprisoned Doakes but he didn't kill him, though it could be argued that his actions led to Doakes' death. But did he cross the Rubicon?

Audience scores can't be trusted. I can see a review-bombing campaign for this one. I think maybe SATC wasn't all that, some of it is fond memories or nostalgia.

That place was right in the center of Amsterdam while the others weren't So more opportunities for photos of canals and other Amsterdam postcards without walking too far. Also close to the Central station, where she can take trains to other European cities or to the airport.