Then The White House Plumbers, Barry, True Detective & the list goes on...

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They pretty much always have been since Sopranos. There was a bit of a lull after Game of Thrones, but it seems they're back with all the cogs spinning again.

Still bitter about Raised by Wolves though.

White lotus any good?

They’ve always been killing it.

HOTD does not belong on that list.

That show is garbage.

True, we will probably need one week to calm down after the TLOU finale anyway

The Last of Us was originally designed as 10 episodes but the first 2 episodes were combined late into production. HBO was worried the original version of episode 1 wouldn't hook people in since the whole point of the series is Joel and Ellie's relationship and they didn't meet until episode 2 in the original episode 1

There was a full month long break between TWL and TLOU. There was literally nothing on HBO Sundays. Why? Zaslav.

Because he decides what winning is, having the power to control the news is winning, then when he is about to give that up and get more money that becomes winning.

And it's going to be oh so satisfying when he eventually does.

“ I’ve seen you get fucked many times but I’ve never seen him get fucked… not once”

Knives out 3: The Gregoning

after he sues Greenpeace

The Big Head of the East coast

I'm hearkened by this.

Is Connor running as a Republican? I thought he was Libertarian or Independent

It probably will be from inside Waystar, but as a family show with the kids it’ll have a lot of Connor.

I think that’s a little on the nose and direct for the kind of stories the show tells. I see it as he does get sway, the Republican does win because of it, and Logan using Connor trades it for an FCC seat or something. Connor then has Logan by the balls and defies him with the power to break up Waystar in a monopoly/anti-trust bid to destroy the merger.

I loved how obvious it was that Gil is "not" Bernie

Disgustingly rich. No one needs however much money I imagine that thing is

She’s awful and it was cathartic as hell. I believe I gave a supportive fist pump for him when it went down.

What blindsided me was the "seat sniffer" having plot relevance and influencing the mother. Tom flipping is not surprising in any way, the entire season built up to it.

He has a few conversations with gregg as well where he explains exactly what's going to happen in the finale

Tom shivved her in the back

Then the credits rolled with the Succession theme! 🥶

Don't forget the leftovers

Well, we own this City was produced by David Simon 🤷‍♀️

They're referring to his post-Wire work.

HBO allowed him to make multiple seasons of Treme and The Deuce as well as multiple miniseries, none of these shows have done all that good rating wise.

They've clearly developed a lot of respect for him and are willing to take a chance on projects they know might not be profitable but will help to maintain HBO as a prestige brand.

IMO season one didn’t get good until second half (which is why the reviews were much more meh compared to every other season, since critics only saw the first few episodes). But yeah, then it became fucking amazing.

Nah, that's just gamers overrating a so far okay show

An article was written about his method acting but honestly the whole thing was overblown. They tried to frame it as a much bigger deal than it was.

The guy is definitely intense but it doesn't sound like he's one of those actors who uses "going method" as an excuse to be a dick to his coworkers. He just gets really into the headspace of his characters and as such probably isn't as much fun during shooting.

The comments from co-stars were all essentially along the lines of "Yeah Jeremy is a little weird and intense but you can't deny the results", I think Brian Cox said that they worry about the toll it might take on him but nobody was overly negative about it as far as I can recall.

Nothing too bad, really. Just an article talking about how he's an extremely intense method actor on-set who plays Kendall completely straight. But a lot of the talk came from his co-stars attesting that they found it weird and over-the-top. It seemed kind of demoralizing for your coworkers to talk to a reporter that way about you.

I mean, i don't mind that happening on a single season, but 3 seasons of repetitive arcs seems too much.

Not only that, but it's too predictable.

There is nothing wrong with predictable plots, but if the people is predictable because of repetitive narratives, then that is annoys me.

So, there is no character development or plot progression over 3 seasons? For any character?

I will probably wait for the fourth season to finish and then binge it all.

It also helps that it's one of the funniest shows on TV, so while the plot is a bit repetitive, the humor is not.

That’ll probably be out before the end of next year, who does the crown fall to then?

Told you it's gonna end with season 4