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Post by cristar on Apr 4, 2023 8:30:19 GMT
Greg and Romulus so good this episode. As always.
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Post by FlexibleFeline on Apr 4, 2023 11:14:07 GMT
Yeah, they had some great moments, including Greg's incredibly Greg-ish meeting with Kerry. Part of me keeps thinking the season is every bit as good in terms of drama but maybe not quite as funny but then I remember all the lines that made me laugh out loud; I just take it for granted. It has often been something Greg or Roman says or does so far this season. A couple of belters last night such as Roman calling the pleb bar a Billy Ray Cyrus Kentucky Fried Shitshack  |
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Post by FlexibleFeline on Apr 4, 2023 11:17:47 GMT
And another great bit of Roman invective, quoted in the Graun recap: Stop ganging up on me like you’re Lennon and McCartney and I’m George. I’m John, motherfuckers. You’re Ringo and Yoko. He’s still Connor but he won having drinks with us at an auction. |
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Post by askew on Apr 4, 2023 11:19:45 GMT
I think they need to be careful with Logan: sometimes I'm not sure whether he thinks Tom is a fucking idiot and can see through his bluster, or is actually paying attention to him.
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Post by cristar on Apr 4, 2023 11:20:41 GMT
And another great bit of Roman invective, quoted in the Graun recap: Stop ganging up on me like you’re Lennon and McCartney and I’m George. I’m John, motherfuckers. You’re Ringo and Yoko. He’s still Connor but he won having drinks with us at an auction. Yeah that was great. His teasing Conor about Willa was funny too. |
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Post by rawshark on Apr 6, 2023 9:49:13 GMT
“He looks like if Santa was a hitman."
"It’s like Jaws, if all the people in Jaws worked for Jaws.”
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Post by Frog on Apr 6, 2023 9:53:38 GMT
Logan definitely knows that Tom is an idiot but he is a useful idiot and that's why he keeps him around. It also pisses Shiv off which is just icing on the cake.
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Post by askew on Apr 6, 2023 10:11:16 GMT
"If we're good, we're good"
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Post by FlexibleFeline on Apr 10, 2023 16:45:19 GMT
Well. Well, well. Episode 3 spoilers: That happened earlier in the season than I expected but...the clue is in the name, I guess.
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Post by Frog on Apr 10, 2023 19:16:13 GMT
Blimey
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Post by bindipper3d on Apr 10, 2023 19:53:07 GMT
What an episode!
As soon as I saw it was written by Jesse Armstrong and directed by Mark Mylod, I knew it’d be something special.
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Post by FlexibleFeline on Apr 10, 2023 20:05:47 GMT
I didn't see that - no disrespect to the other hugely talented writers and directors but, exactly as you say, when the big ones take charge, you know you've got something special, and indeed pivotal.
I'm going to watch it again in a couple of days when the first viewing has settled. Some of the acting was absolutely phenomenal.
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Post by askew on Apr 10, 2023 20:38:19 GMT
How about that
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Post by barchetta on Apr 10, 2023 22:40:38 GMT
Damn.
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Post by Mark1412 on Apr 10, 2023 23:11:24 GMT
It was phenomenal, it always is but somehow manages to find ways to exceed itself, but won't be watching it again like I normally do. Brutal viewing. |
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Post by Tomo on Apr 11, 2023 0:33:28 GMT
Wow. Been a smidgeon lukewarm with Succession since part way through season 3, but dayum that was incredible. One of the finest episodes of anything ever. My ass temps are now off the scale for the remaining episodes.
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Post by Frog on Apr 11, 2023 6:55:26 GMT
Currently sitting at 10/10 on IMDb for the episode making it tied with breaking bads ozymandias (hanks episode) as the highest ranked TV episode of all time.
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Post by Tuffty on Apr 11, 2023 14:52:44 GMT
The whole episode was uncomfortably close to how I experienced my father's death, from being told by my brother to the slow realisation that there was nothing you or anyone could do and that he was gone. So many emotions I was able to identify. Don't think an episode of TV has captured the sudden impact of a loss so well other than that one episode of Buffy. All done thanks in no small part to the direction, editing and acting, my word. |
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Post by rhaegyr on Apr 12, 2023 8:30:12 GMT
I've been waiting for the full season to come out so I can binge watch it over a weekend with the missus (it's how we've done the other seasons). Walked past a newspaper stand today and there's a massive spoiler all over one of the front pages on the most recent episode. Grr.
Another reason to dislike the Daily Mail, like more were needed -_-
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Post by rawshark on Apr 12, 2023 9:10:18 GMT
Yeah it got spoiled for me by a work email from the Express. Dicks. But when I actually came to sit down and watch it I found it had no impairment on my enjoyment of the episode. It's just an extraordinary, exceptional bit of TV. I love how it completely subverted expectations of the episode being about Connor's wedding by instead disrupting the entire series. |
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Post by rawshark on Apr 12, 2023 13:05:10 GMT
The more I think about it, I'm not sure I've seen a better episode of any series. Ever.
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Post by Lurker on Apr 12, 2023 14:03:08 GMT
One minute I was chuckling away at Tom's "Greglet's gregging" line then
Jesus, what a shock. I thought something like that could happen in one of the later episodes, but not like that. It was horrific but brilliant at the same time.
I've never seen death portrayed so accurately before. No triumphant last words or even a last look at Logan, he was there one minute boarding a plane as normal, then he wasn't. The acting and direction was unbelievably real and it highlighted how brutal business is as the immediate thought was about preserving the stock price as Logan was still having chest compressions. Absolutely brutal.
I've thought about it all day, nothing usually sticks with me like that.
Hats off to the whole crew for a remarkable, emotional episode of TV.
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Post by rawshark on Apr 12, 2023 15:07:39 GMT
The closest examples I could think of were Livia Soprano dying in The Sopranos - which was done out of neccessity due to Nancy Marchland passing. There's also a death in Six Feet Under where one character leaves on a trip and just disappears. It isn't until some episodes later that her body is found, and much later that it becomes clear what happened to her.
All fantastic portrayals of sudden death. But the panic, denial, pathos and conflicted feelings in this episode was just masterful. Roman desperately wanting to tell Geri how he was feeling whilst also knowing he'd burned his bridges down with her has really stuck with me. |
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Post by trafford on Apr 13, 2023 9:00:33 GMT
Jeez, managing to resist the urge to click on those spoiler tags, thanks guys 👍
Looking forward to watching it this afternoon
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Post by rawshark on Apr 13, 2023 12:25:30 GMT
You might want to avoid the front of newspapers and just about every online outlet as well.
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Post by Frog on Apr 13, 2023 12:43:33 GMT
You are very brave coming in here without having seen it!
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Post by trafford on Apr 13, 2023 12:45:26 GMT
You might want to avoid the front of newspapers and just about every online outlet as well. That's kinda what I do:D Anyway, nearly home now. |
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Post by MysteryLamb on Apr 17, 2023 20:17:10 GMT
That was a hour the felt like three. Three amazing hours of TV.
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Post by Reviewer on Apr 17, 2023 20:41:54 GMT
That was great. Greg trying to fit in by being a dick was very funny.
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Post by Tomo on Apr 17, 2023 23:05:39 GMT
Awesome episode. Pretty equal with the last. Full of intrigue and momentum shifts. Love how it was all set in the apartment too. S4 in full swing and smashing it now.
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