At the end of the day, they're still just little kids making noise outside his office.

JEREMY STRONG as KENDALL ROY || Succession 4x04

A video of you crying at your father’s funeral goes viral but it’s okay, because he used to hold you up to the mirror and mock you too. You walk into a crowd of protestors until you’re beaten and trampled but it’s okay, because your father used to hit you too. He kicks you, and you chase the feeling.

He’s whimpering. Curled up like a child. A lapdog, waiting for its owner to come home. But it’s okay, because his father is still here. In the mockery. In his actions. His words. In him. He’s not coming out of that coffin, but it’s okay. He’s created you to be his own personal mausoleum instead. You have to take up his clothes, and his words, and his scorn, and stay in your cage while he lives in you. You're just a kid, but you can’t shield yourself from how your father rots inside you. Festers. Perfectly moulded. The dagger buried deep.

He made him. And now, he haunts him.

Very fucking important data set 😂

y'all think kendall is gonna bust out a somber, moving version of L to the OG at the funeral

oh this is going to cause chaos I am so excited

Always said that the only way to “win” Succession was to just get out and leave. 

Congratulations to Jess Jordan on winning Succession! 

One of Succession’s running themes has always been that the past is made up. You can’t go back to fact check it and everyone is an unreliable narrator when it comes to memory. In the same sense, the creatives behind this show have always given the actors a lot of freedom in how to play scenes and change them.

And I honestly respect the hell out of Jesse Armstrong, the writers and everyone else that, when asked about their take on the show, they will always say things like “I think” “In my opinion” “Personally”. Like, the literal creator of the text recognizing that there is no definitive take is so fucking cool to me. It is perfectly in line with the show’s philosophy as well.

Discussing Succession is truly like sitting in a very smart english lit class, where everyone’s opinion is well supported by the text. Everything is valid, nothing is 100% right but you can see how they got there.

For example, James Cromwell will think there is a certain hope for betterment by the end of the finale, Mark Mylod thinks it’s profoundly tragic, Jesse Armstrong thinks change isn’t possible, the next person will point at moments during the story where that exact thing is disproven-- there is no right answer.

sluicing out the porridge

This season has had a lot of fucked scenes, but Kendall pressing Roman's face into his shoulder hard enough to tear open his stitches as a visualization of how the Roys weaponize familial affection was genuinely diabolical

'This is a chessboard, and every move is crucial. Season 4 of Succession premieres March 26 on HBO Max. (twitter)

if succession ends without roman roy having gay sex at least ONCE then what was even the point

This is still getting me