Succession 2x2 REACTION | "Vaulter" | First Time Watching! 

He stole the batteries because he feels utterly powerless. It was a small meaningless way of compensating for the feeling of weakness he is being made to feel by having no choice but to be a "yes man" for his Dad.

I always thought Kendall was the one Logan truly wanted; Roman was deemed "the weak one" since childhood, Logan is too much of an old misogynist to ever consider Shiv for real and Connor barely even exist in his mind, but Kendall was the one groomed for the position from the start, he studied for it, always worked in the company, etc. There's just two problems: 1) Logan thinks Kendall is way too soft; and 2) Truthfully, Logan can't stand the thought of someone replacing him. He'll always think he's better than anyone else and no one will do a better job than him. Clearly he also enjoys diminishing the kids and seeing them competing for his attention, so even if in his heart he prefers Kendall, he can't stop bullying and toying with all of them

Although he plays the son, Alan Ruck (Connor) is only 10 years younger than Brian Cox (Logan)

I feel like the end, when he stole the batteries and then immediately trashed them, symbolizes what he did with Vaulter. He stole something useful and threw it away for nothing

Shiv turning down the Chief of Staff position was just crazy to me but it shows how much they're all in deep with Logan and it's sad to see. That would have been such a major move for her political career but she was clearly not serious about it like Logan said.

Just counting down the months until Season 4. That being said, I'm still uber excited for evey episode between now and then.

The batteries are because he NEEDS some sense of control in his life. Winona Ryder said the same thing when she was arrested in 2001*

Legit every single episode of this season is GREAT. Really hyped you guys are sticking with it, and hope you do all the way to the end! And yeah Kendall was shoplifting just as a control/compulsion. He's his dad's puppet, he has no agency, and is def dealing with abuse-related trauma I think. One thing he can control is just stealing a battery, or two.

It gives the early impression that Shiv, as the youngest sibling and only daughter, was both disregarded by Logan as a serious person, but was also pampered as his precious little girl. They've mentioned a bunch that Shiv is dad's favorite. He'd raise his hands to his sons, but never his daughter. Each of the sibs is a different form of nepo baby with that emotional damage. Connor was ignored while Logan was still young abd busy working when he had Connor, and his mom wasn't as affluent as Caroline, so their marriage is, like, viewed as less important, and thus Connor is treated more like a bastard child. Kendall and Roman were brothers being pitted against each other, Roman the emotional and sensitive one who was constantly punished by their father for not being strong enough, and Kendall the rigid autistic child who had his awkward social idiosyncracies beaten out of him until he became this weird stiff attempt at cosplaying a serious buisiness person, and who is by far the most groomed and abused by Logan, as he's the closest to just trying to be a carbon copy of him. Shiv is the bratty princess one. She has an interesting relationship with being a woman in a male dominated think space, trying to adjust her behavior as maaculine coded and navigating a minefield of what will make people not respect her, but she's also a brat who was never told no growing up, which is why she just wants to have it all. She wants a nice simple man like Tom to comfort her when she's depressed, but she also doesn't want to be tied to anything. She wants to annoy her dad because she's a spoiled brat who likes the attention, but she doesn't seriously care about her political career, aside from just havin a career as a woman in her family at all. Connor is love starved and lonely and pays Willa to be his girlfriend. Kendall wants to be loved by everyone, Roman doesn't mind be hated by everyone but he craves his dad's rare approval, and Shiv, her emotional damage is that she can't feel much at all. She just has a hard time tapping into her emotions or loving or feeling loved by anyone. Ironically, this can make her come across as FAR more unlikable than the others, because it feels like she doesn't care, but it's not because she's evil and calculating, it's because she genuinely just can't feel love very much. That being said, I don't sympathize that much with Tom either. Like, as a couple, they're clearly incompatible in some ways. They're so sexually different, it puts a big strain on their relationship. But Tom feels entitled to have the absolute top job, literally a billionaire job, just because he's Shiv's husband? He's a mild conservstive from the midwest who on some level feels like, as the man in the relationship, he should automatically have a bigger better job than his wife. Shiv is entitled too, all the kids are, and none of them earned the top job or would be good at it, and at least Tom is a hard working employee of the company, but still. What does Tom have in his career that Shiv didn't give him? Tom skyrocketed through the corporate ladder from being with Shiv, all the way up to ATN in just a few months, all because he's dating the bosses daughter, and he still has the gall to be bitter that she's getting a career move? Pretty cringe, bro.

I've watched the series, and I am having a blast re-viewing, and hearing your reviews of this series. I thought it was the best dramatized example of benign corporate psychosis. I say benign because it's not your traditional psycho murder rampage, but these people exhibit typical psychotic behavior albeit without the murder.

Remember "Becuase my dad told me to" is a jab because he didn't back kendal at the vote of no confidence against Loagan. Bacially saying if you would have backed me you would still have a job.

I genuinely love you guys' reaction to this series! I dunno if because y'all used to reacting so you pick up stuff quicker, but you guys are talking abt some beats in the story that it took me a little while to consider when I watched it for the first time - e.g. shiv's self sabotage. Man the script is so goooooodd lol

I've just discovered your channel and am hooked - plus, I only just discovered, and binged the whole of, Succession just in time for the series finale. The only criticism I have for your reactions is that I would love them to be more often - perhaps twice a week?!! I can't wait to see what you think of the rest of the series. I am officially obsessed with this show as of about 4 weeks ago. And your reactions are perfection. Sending love!

I think your dislike of Roman may be colouring your opinion of his business sense. He often has good instincts, and he wasn't wrong to side against Kendall.

The scene where the Vaulter guy spits in Kendall's face - they did many takes and Jeremy insisted the guy spit at him each time. He's such a nut

Roman may play the idiot but he’s got pretty good instincts - i think him second guessing himself was supposed to highlight that above everything he’s just deeply insecure, not that he did the wrong with vaulter.

its gonna be amazing to hear what you think of the end. ive watched every one with you which is a rewatch from the start

Ken gutting vaulter is one of my favorite scenes in the show.

"Because my dad told me to." Translation - "You should have voted him out when I asked you to. Now suffer the consequences."

Ok so I’ve been thinking this since the first few episodes but what if the dad doing all of this to make the kids fight each other and pick the best man and so far he’s actually betting on Ken which is why he’s been so hard on him but saved him from the manslaughter thing because that was the one thing he knew would actually fully break him? And what if the big reveal is that the dad has had the company willed to Ken this entire time and updates it right before his death but still leave’s everything to Ken? I just had to put that down cause I’ve had a sneak suspicion this whole time and I gotta put it on paper before the reveal happens if it does

Kendall gutting Vaulter is my favorite moment in the whole show

6:15 #Murdoch 7:49 Logan starts shutting Marcia out ever since she said he was old and ill in the first episode of this season.

Arianna looking straight fire! ❤🔥🔥🔥

4:53 love his response to that 😆

“i think he truly wants kendall out of everyone.” yeah.. yeah…

I won’t hear one more negative word about Tom! Also, 17:50 at dinner is meant to be a glimpse of Tom having a backbone and sticking up for himself

LAwrence had a chance to back Kendall during the coup, the only person in the upper management who wanted to really transform the company. Sure, Kendall is naive, and is all for buzzwords (today he would dive into AI xD), but still, he was the best opprotunity for Lawrence for Vaulter to flourish. The final scene at Vaulter, when these woke soy people are meeting corporate reality, when it starts to count if you are making money for the company was great. Vaulter was like Buzzfeed / VICE / Gawker / Vulture hybrid. Huge entities chasing a miniscule demographics, whose met a similar end. muesli pit :)

If you are looking for movies/shows to consider covering I would recommend the tv shows From (mystery/suspense/horror) and Silo (mystery/post apocalyptic/action). For films Unforgiven which is a western with clint eastwood/morgan freeman/gene hackman and Sophie's choice with Meryl Streep are excellent. The godfather trilogy is a classic and there is also Apocalypse Now. Parasite is excellent if you are willing to do movies with subtitles. Something about Mary if you would like a comedy (matt dillon is hysterical in it)

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Toms entitlement starts to make me hate him from this point onwards 😅

is there something wrong with the sound quality? sounds really fuzzy

Very insightful.

12:57 shiv 👀

i loved the cringe woke clows getting fired.

Arianna ... Mingya!

Greg: dont lie about the news (every news station) Naw

Logan and Ken just shut down Buzzfeed lmao. We need more uploads!! Keep it up guys!

don't worry about missing the recap, tbh I'm not even sure who suggested watching it in the first place, I think it might take you out of the story too much going right to thinking about actors and writers

YEEHAWW

love me some diet jesus

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Diet jesus

Lol at the lady drinking the giant water jug

I always thought Kendall was the one Logan truly wanted; Roman was deemed "the weak one" since childhood, Logan is too much of an old misogynist to ever consider Shiv for real and Connor barely even exist in his mind, but Kendall was the one groomed for the position from the start, he studied for it, always worked in the company, etc. There's just two problems: 1) Logan thinks Kendall is way too soft; and 2) Truthfully, Logan can't stand the thought of someone replacing him. He'll always think he's better than anyone else and no one will do a better job than him. Clearly he also enjoys diminishing the kids and seeing them competing for his attention, so even if in his heart he prefers Kendall, he can't stop bullying and toying with all of them