Succession's Reframes: Sometimes More is More 

This is what you get when you have well read intelligent minds with historical perspective and knowledge of today’s trends writing the script. There is just so much depth. You can watch the show multiple times and not find everything. I love it.

This is a phenomenal examination of one of the most interesting aspects of Succession's unique speech patterns. Glad youtube randomly reccomended this video, always looking for other video essayists.

My favorite example “You have ingested too much cocaine, trying to do what you thought was saving Kendall in order to please Logan Roy, giving you a false job. You underestimated the strength of the narcotics and now you are about to become overstimulated since you are probably new to this.” Summarized into: “BUCKLE UP FUCKLEHEAD!”

now that you've explained it, I see this everywhere in the show and can see its merit. great work!

I love the way your video walks us through this technique - you're a great teacher! As a professional writer (not screen), and general lover of language, to me the dialogue in Succession is champagne for the brain. I'm often hitting the 15-sec rewind arrow every few minutes when watching this show, just to re-listen and savour the delicious cleverness of a line. Can't help myself! The writers are disciplined virtuosos, but are also riffing playful and complex jazz solos (sometimes taking them to a limit that's borderline insane!). I recommend people in the comments watch The Thick Of It, one of Jesse Armstrong's older creations, the dialogue is also this sharp and wicked. It's British-centric, but will keep you going until we get Season 4! :)

I could listen to the opening theme forever omgomg Its so beautiful. Great video!! Gimme more succession content please!!

Never really noticed it before or maybe I just haven't been paying attention much but thanks for putting it out there, now i see it everywhere. Love watching videos like this, makes consuming content much more engaging :D

I stumbled upon this video while I was bored scrolling through RU-vid and I’m so glad I did! I had never seen succession prior to watching this video and now it’s my favorite show! Great video! Thanks for your work!

Thank you so much for this. Honestly can't express how valuable and informative this video has been. There are some core writing lessons in here delivered with clarity and fun. This is honestly one of the best video essays I've seen on RU-vid overall. Amazing work; I'm subscribed and eager to see more!

Nice mention of half hour sitcom Veep. Succession show runner Jesse Armstrong was one of the main writers of the British sitcom that was spun into Veep

This is awesome, thanks for doing it

Just discovered this channel, please don't stop your work. Amazing!!

this was very well-made and the illustrations you used really helped me to understand the various points! great work

I just started watching Succession. I'm still on episode 2. I decided to come back to this video because to this day I was not able to wrap my head around this concept.

WOW! What a great analysis! I think this is reason enough for another rewatch now...

Channel deserves wayyyy more subscribers 💯 this was such a good analysis!!

This is the first show every where I have the intro included in my work playlist. I don't think I've even pressed the Skip Intro button yet.

Wonderful video! Thank you for this

What a great video (all around)! Subscribed.

This is an excellent analysis. Even for the unfamiliar, reframing through multiple examples can give context to the conversation happening in the show and helps make the point clearer. Would love to see your take on other shows as well! Keep going!

I have no idea how this video has such few views. Amazing work you put into it, everything is really well explained. And as like most videos I like to watch about my favorite media, it makes me appreciate even another aspect of the show. Succession is such a masterpiece.

This is fantastic, thank you!!

Instead of overstaying your welcome with too much deviation from the main idea, you covered it from many angles to get your ideas across perfectly. You're a great teacher. Great video. Subbed.

Really really well-explained! Will definitely help my writing going forward

Never been happier I clicked a RU-vid recommendation. Great video!

Love this

Thank you so much for an amazing analysis. As a teacher of literary analysis, myself, I’m impressed by your pedagogical approach!

Connor Roy was interested in politics from a very young age.

Yes! Watching this show I realized how much I liked these different writing techniques but never knew the name of them until now! I always talk about how writing is one of my favorite things I look out for and enjoy from a show, yet can never explain the terms, they leave me feeling some kind of way and I know they’re something special. Thank you! Will see if you have one for Gossip Girl, haha

Really interesting - thanks!

amazing video!

Great work , plz we want more ❤️

Brilliant!

Great work.

Actually quite well crafted. Do more on Succession.

Great video 😍👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Well done 👌

Wow one of the best shows 👏🏿 👌 ❤ ❤❤❤🥂🍾

Truly an exception that proves the rule - more is more because it emphasizes the absurdity of how much fits into the roy's understanding of "more," and it only works bc it is used with remarkable precision.

I’ve been wondering why it seems every line has an analogy it. This is great thank you

Wow I can't believe how many references I missed. This show is a masterpiece

You started the vid with Connor :))))) automatic like, automatic follow

great video man, never would have thought that knowing the basics of show writing would deepen my experience of this great work of art. i love the show too but i think i have probably missed a thousand reframing references to popular works or real instances. if you want to, could you make a video exploring these references? especially season 3.

I’m just here waiting for season 4

Very good! So glad someone understands that Polonious says dumb sh*t. Renaissance writers studied D'Coppia, which taught them how to say the same thing in many different ways, some rather elaborate and of many words. Cuz sometimes More Is More, baby! 🤭🤗🤭

gorgeous

Impressed with the level of detail.

How do you only have 600 subscribers? I can’t wait to brag to internet strangers I knew about Scene-a-Matic before almost anyone

My only complaint with this video is the fact that it doesn’t have more views

Amazing video, surprised that you have so few subscribers, just gained another one with me though...

Makes me think of "You're Spam. You're vapor. A waste of perfectly good yearbook space"

The only thing I don't understand here is why you don't have 100k followers already

This is a wildly different example but throughout the video all I could think of was the line, "You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons" where the initial phrase is reframed twice in ways that don't add anything, then one more time, much more dramatically, for comedic effect.

Great video! Thanks for your effort. The references in Succession are Goldilocks. Not too much. Not too little. Unlike Billions who uses references like Michael Jordan playing golf. They got in over their head. They're like Sisyphus' fucking Boulder.

Flanders is not in France... damn

Moar vidos plz!

Just stopped by to say Connor Roy was interested in politics at a very young age.

Just in case anyone comes across this and hasn't seen it, please disregard the comparison to House of Cards because Succession is actually good.

lol, House of Cards. Not in the same league.