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Every successful New Yorkset show has to do its Los Angeles episode.
Everything happens three hours later than it does in New York!
No, I have not been paid to say that.)
Because this isSuccession, Los Angeles drives everyone just a little bonkers in Living+.
), down (Roman?!?!
), and entering the charts (the game ofBitey) this week.
1.Kendall, somehow
1.
Hes in first place!
So clearly he doesnt!
Well, there are four episodes to go, so lets not count any chickens just yet.
2.Death
2.
Ourpreviously unbeatable championslips to No.
Immortalitys back on the menu, boys!
3.Karl
3.
4.Shiv, Tom, and Shiv-Tom shippers
4.
Oh, my beautiful-disaster couple!
(They both end up laughing at the idea.)
Points off for what seemed like a genuinely terrible Investor Day presentation from Tom, though.
5.The game ofBitey
5.
They both look simultaneously crushed and turned on, which is their default state of being.
Successionis a pretty sexless show, but reader, this scene was fucking sexy.
Shiv and Tom forever!!!
6.Logan Roys T.J. Eckleburg impression
6.
And yet the temptation to feature more Logan insomecapacity must surely have been very strong.
Eckleburg, the giant billboard that gazed symbolically down on the characters inThe Great Gatsby.
7.The city of Los Angeles
7.
8.Greg
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Once again, Greg succeeds by being nakedly open about doing whatever the Roys tell him to do.
9.Matsson
9.
Though the GoJo legal team is very professional, the man atop the company very much is not.
So it goes with his tweet, which compares Living+ to, uh, Nazi death camps.
10.Gerri and Joy
10.
Joy (played by Annabeth Gish!)
He doesntsayits because she criticized his dads beloved baby, and yet …
Similarly, he cans Gerri when she tells him that she cant really believe hes his father.
She can act like it, sure.
He demands her respect, but Gerris not going to give that so easily.
So he fires her, too.
And yet … there she is sitting with Frank and Karl near the episodes end.
It doesnt seem like shell be that easy to get rid of.
11.Nicholas Britell
11.
12.Pete
12.
Finally, in exasperation, he says, Numbers arent just numbers.
You completely understand what he means.
13.Tweeting
13.
14.Roman
14.
Shiv is carefully scheduling grief periods and reconnecting with her estranged husband.
Roman is simultaneously feeling everything and nothing at all.
If (all together now)Successionis about abuse, then Roman is the avatar of that idea.
He cant hold all of these contradictions in his head, so he just doesnt.
Instead, he lashes out.
And he doesnt care who gets hurt in the process.
It seems somewhat clear to me that Jeryd Mencken is going to win the upcoming election.
Life is about more than sealing yourself off from anything uncomfortable, both externally and internally.
The characters onSuccessionall live in hermetically sealed worlds, and they seem hollow, despairing, and lost.
Their money has bought them security, but at what cost?
Yet that connection is vulnerable, intimate, maybe even painful.
So the shields go up; the husk returns.
