Logan Misses the Kids and Shiv & Tom Quit Each Other (Maybe), while over in “Perry Mason,” Perry Remains an Adorable Hot Mess, Della Continues to Enchant, and poor people actually exist.
Great reviews. I wasn't sure I was going to continue watching Succession, but dipped my toe in the water again and it still feels pretty slimey. I too find the kids convoluted conversations not only irritating but unrealistic. Does anyone ever really talk like this, unless they are just trying to impress each other with how cool they are? How sad. And pathetic. But so are all the characters in this series. I keep wanting to quit watching, but it's like watching a train wreck. It's hard to turn away from the horror you know is coming. Where will all the bodies fall in the end?
Thanks so much for subscribing! And for commenting. I’m hoping to get some real conversation going. (Right now, people seem to be commenting on Facebook rather than here.) Hope you start a trend! Love your “Succesion” metaphors; slimy water, train wreck, falling bodies. Yep. Hard to turn away, but feel a bit soiled and/or battered afterward….What does it say that this show is so popular, while “Perry Mason” seems to be falling through the cracks?
I'm not sure. I wonder if it has to do something with how battered and divided we are as a nation now. An infatuation with bullying? With winning at al costs? An obsession with the latest "it" girl? Making the Other the enemy? While Perry Mason is so wholesome in comparison: tolerant, inclusive, kind. It scares me a bit, the direction we're heading. I feel like we're at the beginning of the end of something precious I wish I could pass on to my grands and not sure I can.
I know what you mean. And “Succession” turns behavior that’s actually helping to destroy us into snappy entertainment, while Perry keeps it “real.” Which is to say: humane and often bewildered people doing their best in the midst of a culture that ain’t so damn entertaining if you’re poor, a woman, Black or brown. Or really, anyone. As you say, we are all battered!
Great reviews. I wasn't sure I was going to continue watching Succession, but dipped my toe in the water again and it still feels pretty slimey. I too find the kids convoluted conversations not only irritating but unrealistic. Does anyone ever really talk like this, unless they are just trying to impress each other with how cool they are? How sad. And pathetic. But so are all the characters in this series. I keep wanting to quit watching, but it's like watching a train wreck. It's hard to turn away from the horror you know is coming. Where will all the bodies fall in the end?
Thanks so much for subscribing! And for commenting. I’m hoping to get some real conversation going. (Right now, people seem to be commenting on Facebook rather than here.) Hope you start a trend! Love your “Succesion” metaphors; slimy water, train wreck, falling bodies. Yep. Hard to turn away, but feel a bit soiled and/or battered afterward….What does it say that this show is so popular, while “Perry Mason” seems to be falling through the cracks?
I'm not sure. I wonder if it has to do something with how battered and divided we are as a nation now. An infatuation with bullying? With winning at al costs? An obsession with the latest "it" girl? Making the Other the enemy? While Perry Mason is so wholesome in comparison: tolerant, inclusive, kind. It scares me a bit, the direction we're heading. I feel like we're at the beginning of the end of something precious I wish I could pass on to my grands and not sure I can.
I know what you mean. And “Succession” turns behavior that’s actually helping to destroy us into snappy entertainment, while Perry keeps it “real.” Which is to say: humane and often bewildered people doing their best in the midst of a culture that ain’t so damn entertaining if you’re poor, a woman, Black or brown. Or really, anyone. As you say, we are all battered!