What does it all come down to in the world of Succession? Take a stab in the dark
as a classy family epic about a media empire with frequent insights into the human condition. That’s fine, but have you considered watching it as a sitcom with occasional insights into the human condition? Each week, a dysfunctional hour with a dysfunctional family. It certainly adjusts expectations and reframes the show’s flaws – airless acquisition plots, dialogue so pleased with itself it demands a medal – as curiosities, rather than, say, exhausting mainstays.
Aside from Tom’s biodynamic wine, the main lubrication at this party is gossip. In some cases, like Greg finding out Ebba and Matsson’s “mingling”, it’s lukewarm. But sometimes, it’s hot: Ebba lets slip to Kendall and Roman on a balcony – the symbol for talking openly this week – that Matsson isn’t a real tech genius, and he’s fudged subscriber numbers in India.
Throughout all this, Shiv and Tom are heading for their third emotional confrontation of the season. After last week’s peace deal, they are blurring the lines between sex and strategy, by sleeping together and sending each other sexts. The spanner in the works this week takes corporeal form in political strategist and Shiv’s former flame, handsome Nate Sofrelli .
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