Succession - Ep.4X8 "America Decides" (MovieMan Reaction) 

@@HoundsBane Most things male characters do on this show seem like a lesser crime to people so it's not too surprising.

@@neonoires Or maybe doing drugs is a lesser evil to most people than weaponizing your own pregnancy to score a point in an argument?

While I sympathize with her struggle and the fact she did get pushed out, it is her own doing since e1, when instead on going for whatever they had back then she started some petty crap with Sandy, completely excluding her brothers out. And even in this case, she literally uses her father's death ("my father just died" - ok, so? is it buisness tho) and her pregnancy to get direct control over Tom in this particular moment to serve her agenda. Which is fine. But let's not pretend she is any better or even a victim, she is just like the rest of them, but out of all them she is the one who thinks she is a “good person” (Kendall also btw, but his delusions are a bit wilder, and I hate his tech bro corpo speak ridden personality). Like even about Mencken, she's thinking she is that "liberal woman in the conservative patriarchal family", gimme a break.

I would agree if that was all she was doing, but she also partially did it just out of emotion. Tom just told her that she essentially KILLED her father, which is a fucked up thing to say, and she kinda just spilled it. ​@@OhWellWhatTheHell1

@@Chlo255 yeah I mean if Tom was going to go low and use her father’s death against her then she can use her pregnancy 🤷🏻‍♀️

Indeed :( Thanks for coming along on the journey tho! Hope you stick around for what's to come

@@MovieMan101 100%, are you planning to do season 2 of Arcane when it comes out?

Good. He's fucking terrible at these. Shut up, dude. Don't talk through the entire thing.

Oh is that why? I was wondering if it's because more rural districts had been counted at that point in time compared to the urban districts. If it is because of the fact that Mencken had represented New York, that feels like a small error in the writing to me. My understanding is that where you've been previously elected doesn't matter much these days, as most voters are much more strongly aligned to their preferred political party compared to 25 or even 15 years ago. No far right politician is winning New York in a presidential election, and it's especially hard to believe a far right politician winning New York state by a landslide. Agreed on the promo. Comes down to personal preference but I like to head into movies/episodes as blind as possible.

Appreciate the heads up! Yeah, aside from the preview at the start of each season, I've been avoiding the "next week on..." sequences at the end

@MovieMan101 Yes! lol I've heard tell of Mr. Darcy XD It was also crazy seeing Greg pop up the way he did in "Zola" and "Dream Scenario". Also seeing Tom as a prominent figure of the TVA in the new Deadpool movie is going to be interesting lol

Something tells me you'll be much happier in a couple hours..... :0

Agreed, Greg has slowly understood how to play the game since Safe Room with his polite blackmail proposal to Tom, then with Logan in S3 to abandon the Kendall ship so he's experienced and knows how to negotiate for personal gain... to put it shortly, Shiv thought she was dealing with Season 1 Greg.

Def planned on it! I'm a "subbed" over "dubbed" guy for sure. I want to experience media the way it was originally intended by its creators and cast :)

Her character and her decisions (I'm finding out) are certainly a big point of contention and debate among the fans XD

@@MovieMan101 definitely!

Don't worry too much about it, I'm sure he can make America great again.... X(

I think they did a good job at showing the hypocrisy on both sides of the political fence, like when they went to visit that liberal family they wanted to buy the new station from.

"Already been established that the missing 10,000 votes would not help Party B surpass Party A" Is this ever said directly? I was under the impression that those missing 10k votes (if they broke down roughly where we'd expect based on historical data/polling) would have handed Party B that state. Like call it 1.625 mill for A vs 1.620 mill for B, with 10k votes pending that were projected to go 75-25 to party B. Either way in real life I would guess that the most likely course of action would be a re-vote in Wisconsin.

@@OhWellWhatTheHell1 yeah Darwin says it and Roman retorts well what are we waiting for then? I don’t know can you wait for a re-vote? Like what’s the timeline on that? Can’t imagine them holding up the election for it.

The show establishes that they are ignoring the actual process to make the call, something they should not have the right to do.

@@Twarex01 sure but they feel as if they need to take the onus too since it’s unprecedented so what’s wrong and what’s right?

@@shahriachowdhury9552 They are looking out for their own selfish gains, not taking the onus. Plus they are the last people that should make the call on what is right anyways.