Funnily enough that was the easiest part haha. I had the rap written on Monday, the rest of the video is what took a bulk of it. Now finding all the clips for the montage took much longer!
@@HizzyHay do yourself a favor and watch thr sopranos. Succession and sopranos hold the positions of some of the best television shoes that have ever come out.
Tom was the best written and acted character of the series and I will die on this hill. I’m tired of all the Shiv stans ignoring how bad she treated him because he chose Logan. He picked Logan so she would see him as an equal and not just her little play thing.
The episode where they declare Mencken as the winner in ATN showed us how competent Tom actually is (even tho he just follows oders). He takes his job seriously, something the kids never did. And I think that whole episode was to show us and set it up he was going to win and why.
Yeah even though he’s making some terrible followed orders he does a good job handling the chaos even while on cocaine. I can’t wait to give that one a rewatch
The guy is a solider, but he's very calculated and does things for his own benefit. He follows orders because it brings him close to his endgame, which actually makes him the most ruthless out of everybody. He plays the part of somebody who follows orders, but don't let that fool you
1:13 just realised that chicken grab - taking from Logan what was Logan's - was a portent of what transpires in the end. Logan even replied like the rest of us by exclaiming "WTF"?!
the way no one has commented on the sheer beauty and creativity that IS the opening song? literally will haunt my dreams it's that ingrained in my brain - FANTASTIC! :)
The first thing I said after the episode ended was “… Tom ate that.”💀💀 but that was genuinely a good twist I actually didn’t see coming as I thought Mattson hated him.
One thought that I had was that every character got what they wanted in a perverse, monkey's paw way * Shiv wanted Tom to be CEO in the beginning of the show. She abandoned that when she herself became a prospect, but that was her original position, even if she was not deeply committed to it. The price? Becoming a second Caroline, a woman with power squandered by social position as a CEO's wife. She regained her relationship with Tom, yes, but it was not the one she wanted: Tom is no longer "servile" (to her). She is not in control. * Roman wants acceptance and deeply fears failure. His clownery is in part a bid to have a niche for himself because of his deeply felt inadequacy, a self-concept which he reaffirms through his masochism (sexual and otherwise). He embraces failure and torture on terms he can control because of the abuse he has endured. To my knowledge, he is the only Roy kid to have been physically abused by Logan. At the end of the show, he is right back where he started, having endured an extreme failure yet at the same time having asserted his own agency ( in going for the role in the first place). In doing so, he found self-acceptance or at least self-awareness. ("We're bullshit.") * Kendall wanted to be his father. And he got that in every way except for the CEO role. In the funeral episode he was very obviously a Logan 2.0, terrorizing his own kids in the same way Logan did ("everything I did I did for my children"). Ewan says that Logan, at some point, decided to stop trying to be good. Kendall than stood up and more or less declared that he had made the same decision ("I hope it's in me"). Ultimately, he treated Shiv the same way Logan did, having gone from "Fuck the patriarchy" to "I am the eldest boy." He treated Roman the same way Logan did: with physical abuse, if not in his violent hug than at least in the boardroom confrontation when he grabs his face. Kendall wanted to be Logan. He got that. And it was hollow, because it turns out what he wanted was not to be Logan after all: he wanted Logan to accept him and love him. And now that he *is* Logan, and he *hates* himself, he has nothing. * Tom wanted security under the protection of a powerfuk leader (initially, Logan) and a relationship with Shiv. He got both of those things in Mattson and in the Graduate-esque closing scene in which Shiv reluctantly takes his hand. Yet it is clear that now that he has those things, he has changed. He has a relationship with Shiv now, but does he want it anymore? "Honestly, Shiv, I don’t know." And Mattson's dynamic is much more malevolent than Logan's. If we want to build on the Greek/Oedipal thing, The patriarch is no longer a father-(in-law)-figure, he is now an overt sexual threat ("I want to fuck her.").
I keep thinking about Tom and Shiv (and this goes to the arguments that with make the show live on) and I think there’s actually a good chance they might be in a good position. Mattson might be a powerful leader but he’s a psycho, they have all the ammo on that. Also he doesn’t even seem like he has a ton of ideas, he says he doesn’t need Shiv for politics because of how easy it is after one day of trying. Great assessment of all their monkey’s paw arcs. I thought your but about Kendall the end was brilliant.
There was a psychologist who reviewed the last episode and said that Shiv became her mother, and she will probably f*ck Matsson💀💀💀hahaha and well Tom remained the same but instead of being docile to Logan he is docile to Matsson
@@biggyls4297 yes, I think that makes sense as her knee jerk reaction, but you can see her opinion on Kendall start to sour when they get to the office. In the end, she’s put in the position of choosing Ken or Tom as CEO at the board meeting. I think she comes to the conclusion that Tom is the better option for her (especially considering the baby). She and Tom spent the whole season building up their relationship
Yep. She was disgusted at the idea of kendall taking their father's spot because he didnt deserve it. But if the alternative CEO had been anyone else, she would have bit the bullet and voted for Kendall and kept the business in the family. With Tom being CEO, it just added the extra layer of "at least it still keeps Waystar close to the family this way" and has her future kids in a symbolic line of succession (only symbolic since the family doesnt own it anymore). And I love how miserable that makes her cuz she'll never be free from the idea that she'll never get what she deserves and will have to remain underneath people she believes herself superior to (while also being an inevitably horrible mother). So poetic.
@@HizzyHaypersonally I think it was because she wanted the convenience of scheduling once their child is born.. 😂 the only way for her to get that was to vote no for Kendall.
Shiv is right that Kendall could not do the job, but that is not the reason she betrays him. She might be fooling herself that that is the reason she changes sides, but in reality she just can't bring herself to let Kendall "win". However, I don't see a great future for Waystar/ATN. Mattson will make his money, but his shenanigans will catch up with him
I think Succession is a combo of Shakespearean comedy and tragedy. Armstrong cares deeply about these follies and romances and shit that characters find themselves in. He structures them very intentionally. Greg with Dasha Nekrasova’s character, whoever Logan is dating at a given time, Conwilla of course. The show is obviously more tragedy, but I appreciate the implementation of these very polygamous love stories (Gerri and Rome, Greg and the two different ladies at the end of s3, Shiv and the Jake gyllenhaal guy; Tom, the prostituite girl and Rome, etc.). I always think of Smiles of a Summer Night by Bergman as much as I think of the Seventh Seal or something with this show.
I loved both barry and succession but I have to say even though both ending were really great I'm still thinking about successions ending and barry is just kinda like yeah its over and done lol
That’s an interesting point. I think they are too different shows and endings. Succession ends while the world is still very much in entropy. Barry’s ending ends when there is not much else to tell in the story (imo). You’re right though, I loved Barry’s finale but I have not thought about it much since last Monday.
I really dug the time shift. Barry’s life change is some incredibly funny writing. I do get how it took a lot of people out of the series a bit because it’s so removed from the rest of the seasons (kinda)
@@HizzyHaythere's a video talking about them both and how they make such a nice pairing ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rX1gHYcrNN0.html (There's also another video that includes ted lasso for some inexplicable reason)
I'm a Stewy fan and you've captured us so well. I also love his actor expressing disdain for Tom lol, Stewy bet on Kendall and doesn't like Tom but in the end, money is money so he's shaking his hand and congratulating him. Spiritually and emotionally behind whoever wins
I think the scene between Tom and Matsson in Sweden wasn't actually a strike... though it may seem so at first glance, when you rewatch it, you realize that Tom's answer wasn't some bullshit suck up answer, of him trying to act all fake insightful by trying to bring up some The Economist article about France like Greg did. His answer was actually insightful. It was a commentary on the American "post imperial" mindset. It showed that Tom understood the American public as head of ATN, and that someone with such an American perspective, which Matsson was lacking, would be useful to keep around if Matsson was going to be buying Waystar. You can see on Matsson's expression that he was actually somewhat impressed by Tom's response, while he did not care for Greg's fake wittiness at all. It's those brilliant scenes with their little nuances that make the show so good and worth rewatching.
Might have been a mistake on my part I assumed “won” in the quotes would make it seem like “hey it could be he actually won or just he won the hearts of the fans!”. Mistake on judgment thinking the who won isn’t actually a big spoiler (I still think if you watch the show you’ll get the same amount out of it fwiw). I’m working on another title right now I just don’t know exactly what else to call it at the moment.
CURSE YOU MAN!!!! I watched this darn video hours ago!!! I can’t stop saying T to the O.M.!! 🤦🏼♀️😂 Good job sir, good job! I salute 🫡 you 😂 (That was a fun episode when Kendall sang it too)
I get why a lot of women fans rooted for Shiv, she screamed underdog woman in a male dominant enviroment during a time that we hope someday women have equal footing in business, but the brilliance was Shiv was fake. She used that to further her selfish desires and got fans to ignore her really ugly treatment of the man she just married. Instead they backed her and thought Tom weak... That always upset me cause the truth I felt was right there in plain sight... Tom, at least knows how to love and wants to love. (as corny as that sounds) I heard two very good female reviwer podcasters talking crap about Tom after Connors Wedding, cause he makes that bad joke to greg, and they said oh hes just worried about himself.... Like, the man let the kids all say goodbye, he was a good man. He's sad too. Like, lay off the guy lol. Just wierd how we all have slightly different perspectives... Show is modern day drama masterpiece that will be watched 100 years from now.
Fair enough, apologies if I spoiled the show for you. I thought the “won” could be viewed a little more ambiguous than people are taking it and I couldn’t think of a video title besides this one. Working on a new one now since a decent amount of people have commented about this.
It depends on what you mean by "won". Ebba's fate revealed how it is to work for a thin skin tyrant such as Matsson and his close hatamoto such as Oskar, Ebba is already his compatriot let alone all American subordinates he and Oskar despise (refer to their conversations in Swedish).
It's S3 E4 - "Lion in the Meadow" the episode with Adrien Brody, when they're eating lunch by the sea. You can see a lot of analogous shots of Logan and Kendall framed by the ocean at around 46:00. They are facing the camera, however, so it's a fun inversion.
I knew Tom is gonna be the winner because dude has W on his last name Wambsgans along with his Sporus, Greg the G. Meanwhile, Kendall deserved the lost the most because he has double L on his name. Double U (W) vs Double L.
It absolutely could not have been Kendall I'm sorry. The ending is fucking brilliant. There isn't really a winner even though it's "Tom," anyway - Mattson takes over their company and they completely lose control aside from Tom, who is essentially a puppet for Mattson now anyway. Perfect ending
I was rooting for Kendall at first but to be honest seeing Tom win was more satisfying; it just never felt like it could become a reality, especially with the way the plot was pointing. He was always what Kendall should’ve been. At the beginning Kendall was a serious businessman and had his own important role in the company. If he had just stuck to his role then he would still have the trust of the company and his family. He then could’ve worked on a more long term plan to influence the company and perhaps become CEO. Instead he had this delusion of quickly turning the company around and becoming known as some kind of visionary. In trying to usurp the company he betrayed everyone he worked with and ended up losing by trying to succeed on his own terms. So it is very much so his hubris that cost him what he wanted so dearly. Tom on the other hand humbly accepted his position in the company and that’s why Logan and eventually Matsson respected him and elevated him. It was finally good to see him earn the top spot as he was the only one who actually seemed to be actively involved and productive for the company (like Kendall was at the beginning). He deserved it more than the siblings because he prioritized executing his job and keeping it above all else. The siblings weren’t serious enough about their jobs and they knew it themselves.
I knew Shiv would back out. It just isn't in her nature to "let" the "dumber" person succeed. The problem with Shiv, is she always thinks she is the most intelligent person. That doesn't bode well in life or business. Her biggest downfall. Tom earned it, deserved it and was loyal to Shiv for most of the series. He realized she was okay with him rotting in prison and never had any intention on helping him. He did what Shiv would have done and deep down she respects him for it.
