The most succinct piece of TV criticism I’ve read in the last decade was this 58-word tweet from Topher Florence: There is, sadly, no real show called Surf Dracula, but the Surf Dracula Problem is everywhere in television these days. Too many series now treat their entire first season as …
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Barely a scene passes in the rarefied world of Succession without mention of money, the dollar amounts typically quite large. Connor Roy torches $100 million in his deluded presidential campaign. The other Roy siblings outmatch their father, Logan, in a bidding war for Pierce Global Media by offering $10 billion. …
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This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of Succession, “Church and State.” “Today is just about today,” Kendall Roy insists early in “Church and State.” He is trying to broker a truce among his siblings on the day of their father’s funeral — to push aside thoughts of the …
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