Tag: HBO
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Succession S3E4: The Moment We’ve All Been Waiting For
This article contains major spoilers for Succession S3E4, “Lion in the Meadow” They did it. Succession gave us the moment we had been waiting for and it surpassed all of my expectations. Succession S3E4, titled “Lion in the Meadow”, gave us the long awaited meeting between Kendall and his father, Logan. This was the first time they had been with…
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Succession S3E3: “The Disruption”
This article contains major spoilers for Succession S3E3, “The Disruption” Succession S3E3 had the unenviable task of following an extremely dramatic season premiere and one of the best episodes in series history, at least in this writer’s opinion. Not an easy position to be in at all but this episode delivered in terms of advancing the plot in a…
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Succession S3E2 -War is Coming
The following contains spoilers to Succession S3E2, “Mass in Time of War” Succession S3E2, entitled “Mass in Time of War”, was everything I love about this series. Some of the sharpest dialogue on television (or film). Some of the most clever one-liners and hilarious setups I’ve seen anywhere. Family dynamics on full display, years of scar tissue…
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Succession S3E1 Sets the Table For an Intense Season
The following contains spoilers to Succession S3E1, “Secession”—the Season 3 premiere After a wait that felt cruelly long, Succession returned for its third season on HBO, picking up exactly where it’s blockbuster second season ended. The third season premiere was one of the most intense hours of the series to date and one in which the table was set for…
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True Detective Season 3 Finale: “Now Am Found”
Season 3 of True Detective has come and gone. Just like with the end of any story, there are bound to be any number of opinions and reasons to justify those opinions circulating the internet by now. There will be those that wanted plot twists. There will be those that wanted a larger conspiracy or the occult…
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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.…