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True Detective S3E5: “If You Have Ghosts”
True Detective Season 3 is not Season 1, the sequel. There’s no Yellow Kings, no “time is a flat circle,” no elements of American Gothic cult-like behavior. It’s different, it is its own story while at the same time being a “return to form” after Season 2 notoriously fell off the tracks. Season 3 does have…
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True Detective S3E4 “The Hour & the Day”
The act of confession is a cinematic trope as old as they come. Whether it be to a priest, to a friend or confession in a legal sense, there’s something quite powerful about a person relieving themselves of their emotional burdens to another person, often making for very powerful moments on camera. What happens to…
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True Detective S3E3: “The Big Never”
The third episode of True Detective‘s third season continued the show’s promising start from last week, when we saw the first two episodes air back-to-back. True Detective S3E3 saw relationships take center stage, really allowing us as an audience to see Roland West in particular in a better light and ending any worries that he might…
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Succession S2E10: This Is Not for Tears
Succession ended its incredibly strong second season with a deserving finale, one in which all of our main players took noticeable steps forward or backward. This season has been largely about the Roy siblings’ desire for their father’s approval, which not only doesn’t come easily but also seems to come in the strangest of ways. If…
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Succession S2E9: DC
”We’re going to need a blood sacrifice.” Logan’s words to Shiv as the penultimate episode of Succession‘s second season ended can’t stop playing through my head today. This season, we’ve seen how ruthless the patriarch of the Roy family can be, perhaps becoming even more ruthless as he begins to slip due to age and health.…
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Succession S2E7: Return
What makes Succession such a standout show is its ability to do a lot of things well. Series creator Jesse Armstrong has given himself enough flexibility to have episodes that favor over-the-top comedy, extravagant hijinks, self-reflection, or—as in this week’s episode—extreme emotional wounds taking center stage, and the show still feels like itself. In Succession S2E7, we…
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Succession S2E6: Argestes
Succession has always been a show about an empire needing to change its guard. Way back in the pilot episode, we saw Logan hospitalized and panic ensue as nobody knew who was truly next in line. Since then, the show has been about the aging emperor clinging tightly to his power, denying his need to plan…
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Succession S2E5: Tern Haven
Every week I ask myself, how can Succession top last week’s episode? There has to be a cooldown, a slowing down of the action, so we can build to the crescendo in the season finale, right? Still wrong. Succession S2E5 saw the Roy family meet an alternative reality version of themselves in an episode that gave us…
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Succession S2E4: Safe Room
I didn’t know if Succession could top how hysterically dark “Boar on the Floor” was. I didn’t know if they could top how truly heartbreaking it was to watch Kendall take a seat at the table in his dad’s office. Hell, I didn’t even know if they could top Season 1. But every week so far, Succession has pushed…
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Succession S2E3: Hunting
Succession might feel absurd at times until you realize how absurd the world really is. I’m starting to wonder if that’s the point of the show: to get us to look at the kind of people who are running the world, to get us thinking that in every boardroom of every major company there is a…
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