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| The Guardian - Culture: TV & Radio | | | | Could he? Will they? What if? What might happen next in Succession | | by Stuart Heritage Dec 15, 2021 | | After a shocking season finale that rewrote the dynamic of the Roy family, all bets are off for how they might recover For all its whizz-bang caper-gone-wrong energy, and for all its subsequent emotional troughs, this week’s Succession finale might have been the most important in its entire run. Because, unless I am very much wrong, Succession – a show about people trying to forcefully mount a succession – just had its succession. And now everything has to change. The episode ended with Logan Roy defying his children by selling Waystar Royco to idiosyncratic Swedish tech bro Lukas Matsson. It’s an unexpected twist, like if King Lear contained a weird new beat where Lear hands the British crown to Jack Dorsey for a laugh, but it sets up a bold new future for the show. What will happen in season four? Here are some theories. Continue reading... | | | | | The 50 best TV shows of 2021, No 6: Feel Good | | by Chitra Ramaswamy Dec 15, 2021 | | Series two of the exquisite comedy tackled trauma, PTSD and gender identity and still managed to make you feel warm inside If love was the drug fuelling the first series of Mae Martin’s exquisite semi-autobiographical romcom, the substance elbowing it out of the way to take top billing in series two was trauma. It’s a sign of Feel Good’s greatness that it still managed to make you feel warm inside. In the second series, Mae – the Canadian comedian who co-wrote, starred and played a version of themselves that is basically them – grew up. As in, regressed. She was back home in Toronto, which meant plenty of comedic gold with her parents, played to repressed liberal perfection by Lisa Kudrow and Adrian Lukis, who can passively aggressively recite Gerard Manley Hopkins like no one else on Earth. Continue reading... | | | | | | | |
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