This should not be sustainable it should be dull. A crisis arrives, Logan’s position seems in danger, and eventually all works out for the nasty old man - again and again and again.
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It’s been clear for a while that this season of Succession has been taking the series in narrative circles. What separates the great shows from all the rest is how they execute that formula, and also what they use that formula to say.
The stories may evolve, and characters may even get to grow and change over the years, but there are fundamental elements that have to repeat over and over in some way, from Carrie Bradshaw’s love of designer shoes to Walter White’s love of blowing his enemies the fuck up. Whether we’re talking defiantly lowbrow or spectacularly highbrow, television is ultimately built on formula.
And Logan Roy’s children will keep coming at the king of their family, and will miss every time. The Wire‘s Major Crimes Unit keeps coming agonizingly close to solving Baltimore’s problems, only to earn hollow victories at best.
The castaways keep trying and failing to build a raft to escape Gilligan’s island. A review of the SuccessionSeason Three finale, “All the Bells Say,” coming up just as soon as I’m a plane crash away from becoming Europe’s weirdest king…
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