The show:
Succession (2018-2023)
Created by:
Jesse Armstrong (Peepshow, Four Lions, The Thick of It, In the Loop, Veep, Black Mirror)
Starring:
Brian Cox, Jeremy Strong, Sarah Snook, Kieran Culkin, Matthew Macfadyen, Nicolas Braun, Alan Ruck, J. Smith-Cameron, Peter Friedman, Hiam Abbass, David Rasche, Fisher Stevens
What's it about?
This week we enter the boardroom, fire someone and say Fuck off to anyone who’ll listen… As we talk TV show extraordinaire, Succession.
This is a rare beast- a show that ran for exactly the correct amount of time. Each episode is a five-star example of gold standard writing, acting and directing.
Biting, horrific, hysterical, charming, satirical and tense beyond measure, the show is as if Dynasty and The Thick of It moved in together, had a baby, ate the baby, sold the remains and destroyed the planet.
With an extended cast of characters, each almost equally deplorable, sympathetic, selfish, vane, likable and evil, each played perfectly, the show follows the 1%, basically folk granted the super power of immense wealth, as they take back-stabbing to new, previously unreached heights.
For today’s Bubble Episode, we focus mainly on the last season, the last episode, and last stand of these desperate, pitiful, morally bankrupt heroes.
So join us with the boar on the floor, Greg the Egg and more ways to say Fuck off than you’d think possible.
Who will succeed? Let’s find out together…
"This is about as choreographed as a dog getting fucked on roller skates." — Logan Roy
"You don’t hear much about syphilis these days. Very much the MySpace of STDs." — Tom Wambsgans
"I wondered why you looked like a goose about to shit a house brick." — Kendall Roy
"Oh, what is that? Date Rape by Calvin Klein?" — Shiv Roy
"He was a king once. Now look at him. Eating shit with feet of clay, a fucking neutered hound-dog. Elvis on the fucking toilet! Like, he doesn’t come back from this, right? He just walked around the New York Stock Exchange with his severed dick in his hand asking where was good for free soup. He just ate the big dog dick. Sucked that pooch bone dry!" — Roman Roy
"I have of late decided not to tarry too much with hope." — Tom Wambsgans
"You love showing your pee-pee to everyone, but someday, you know, you're actually going to have to fuck something." — Shiv Roy
"It's like Jaws if everyone in Jaws worked for Jaws." — Greg Hirsch
"She can fuck off and enjoy her lily-white chicken flesh conscience working for a fucking phone company." — Logan Roy
"What the fuck is this obsession with milk? You know who drinks milk? Kittens and perverts." — Roman Roy
"I don't do white drugs." — Greg Hirsch
"What are you saying, all Aztecs are stupid? Don't be a racist little bitch about it." — Tom Wambsgans
"You wanna do good things? Be a fucking nurse." — Logan Roy
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