“Pegging isn’t new for me, friendo. But it is for Disney…” With that Wade Wilson/Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) introduces himself to the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the new trailer for Wolverine & Deadpool, premiering during Super Bowl LVIII. Yes, while his wife Blake Lively watched the big game between the Kansas …
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Kieran Culkin looks as though someone’s stolen a piece of his soul. We’re seated across from one another in the bustling lobby of the Pendry, a tony hotel in Park City, Utah, and the Succession star has just clocked a middle-aged man not-so-surreptitiously snapping several photos of him from across …
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THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS for the Succession series finale. Succession came to an end on Sunday, answering the longtime question from fans of the HBO series since its inception five years ago: Who will succeed Logan Roy as the CEO of Waystar? A lot of viewers predicted one of the …
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This post contains spoilers for the Succession series finale, “With Open Eyes.” A lot happens over the course of the 90-minute Succession series finale, “With Open Eyes.” Alliances are made, broken, and made again. Votes happen, fortunes rise and fall, losers become winners, and vice versa. For all intents and …
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When 33-year-old Anna Golez started her No Context Succession Twitter account in July 2019, she was filling a void in her own interest and fandom. An avid TV fan, Golez turned her eye toward Succession after her other favorite HBO series, Veep, ended in May 2019 and she “wanted something …
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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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This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of Succession, “America Decides.” Like so much of what happens within the episode, the title of “America Decides” is a lie. America does not decide the result of the presidential election dramatized within the installment. Kendall Roy decides. Well, so does Roman …
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This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of Succession, “Tailgate Party.” If you are a fan of prestige TV in general, chances are you have heard the fable of the frog and the scorpion many, many, many times. It is among the most overused thematic devices of this era, …
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This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of Succession, “Living+.” “Living+” opens with a startling image: Logan Roy, seemingly alive and relatively well — albeit in his usual foul mood — recording a pitch for the titular product, Waystar’s attempt to re-create a cruise-ship experience on dry land.It’s enough …
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