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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NPR got it exactly right:

"The tension in Succession has always been that everybody knew these people were terrible, but they were also human. They could be, in some moments, kind or funny or even insightful. They could certainly be legitimately in pain. Still terrible people — but rounded-out human characters with stories and arcs. This episode is the one where I think the fundamental point of the entire enterprise is made: Their complicated humanity is genuine but so what? Sad, jealous, hurt, abused, mistreated, conflicted, they are all these things. But they operate upon the wider world as instruments of destruction in the lives of real people, and in this episode, the magnitude of that destruction is pushed right up to the front edge of the stage."[/quote]

Yes to all of this -- I can tell it's Linda Holmes without checking and she nails it.

Waiting for the posters who want to tell us all that the show "isn't that deep!" and that it's still fun to pick one of these grotesque humans and root for them to win. Or the poster who though Roman would make a fun dinner guest.

It's all fun and games until the little billionaire sociopaths destroy democracy and get a bunch of people killed. And even then, it's still a game to them.[/quote]

Why do you even watch if you hate the show and everybody in it so much?[/quote]

I love the show. I'm not a simpleton who needs all the characters in a story to be likable or sympathetic in order to get something out of the story itself.

Who exactly do you LIKE on the show, and why? I don't mean who do you find funny (I think they can all be quite funny) or whose story you are interested in (I find the story fascinating), I mean who do you actually like as in "I think this is a cool person and I would be friends with them in real life"?[/quote]

Since you're lecturing me now. You're either making this up or reading far more into peoples' posts here than they're actually saying. I don't think anybody here actually *likes* or "would be friends with" ANY of them, except for maybe Willa and Tom, and even Tom dropped off the "like" list when he revealed his bad side. Nobody, but nobody, here has said they want to "friends" with Shiv or Roman or Kendall or Collin. Sure, one poster thought Roman would be fun to have over to dinner, but even that was because he's amusing to listen to, not because "I want to be BFFs with Roman."

It's a lesser of multiple evils thing, can you see that?

You don't seem to understand the difference between rooting for a character vs. actually "liking" them or "wanting to be friends" with them.

Which makes it strange that you keep coming on to lecture us all about fangirling the characters. I think I'll ignore you from now on.[/quote]

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