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Slick-Session, Season Four Watch Along
Welcome to our “Succession” watch-along! Here Sienna and Tegenn of Slick Magazine will discuss things that remain out in the ultimate season, Season 4, airs. Expect callbacks to past episodes, the exploration of common motifs, and freak-outs as the writers include us in the palms of their hands. This article will be updated every Wednesday and Friday until the season comes to a close!
Premiering in 2018, “Succession” is a show focusing on the media mogul Logan Roy and his four children—Connor, Kendall, Roman, and Shiv. All of whom possess been drastically affected by their neglected, competitive, and over-privileged childhoods. It is a series that substitutes love with power as the Roys battle for the top stop as Waystar Royco CEO.
Disclaimer: This is Slick magazine covering one of the largest media events of the year so spoilers are to be expected,
Episode One – “The Munsters”
Sienna: And we’re off! Succession is back and I’m already incredibly stressed.
Tegenn: I only feel fear right now. It’s Logan’s birthday, and Shiv, Kendall, and Roman are still trying to sell the company. Connor’s continuing his run fo
If there is one thing a Skarsgård is gonna execute, it’s show up unannounced and stir up some drama. So are we really surprised that Succession took this patented formula and ran with it?
Alexander Skarsgård may be prancing around in a like gold bomber jacket as Matsson while the Roy children battle their internal and familial demons, but the player sure is loving it! And so are most of the fans. So his latest antics have people wondering: how is this all possibly going to play out?
Skarsgård himself even mentioned how Mattson is a bit of a mess, but that’s why we are all entertained by him, right? Skarsgård recently told The Hollywood Reporter, “He’s definitely a bull in a china shop. He subscribes to the philosophy ‘move fast and break things,'” the actor said. Even though his ethics is all over the place, he has sure been a standout in the final season. “He’s an spook of chaos. He loves it. He’s not a PR-created … there’s nothing fake about him. If you yearn to call it ‘genius,’ he’s just so out there and chaotic.” Speaking of chaos, fans seemed to acquire a problem with Matsson’s recent party-crashing antics. But
‘Succession’: Matsson and GoJo’s Dodgy Numbers, Explained
The number crunching of Succession Season 4 Episode 7 is probably the least captivating moments amid all the lofty drama of the Roy-Wambsgans pre-election night party (step forward Tom and Shiv, and that almighty row), but it’s vital to understanding the GoJo deal, and how it could all end up tanked.
If it went over your head, don’t worry, you’re not alone. We’re here to translate what went down…
Double crossing
Shiv has happily been playing the double agent between her brothers and Matsson: after organism sidelined in Episode 4, she’s hoping that Matsson will ditch them and place her in a high up position when the buy-out goes through. But the goings-on at the party prove that she’s also now backed herself into a tricky position.
Matsson, who has approach along to prove he’s a reliable presence, once more manages to piss off his head of comms, Ebba. You may recall that Matsson and Ebba were once an item, and after they broke up, the former sent the latter frozen bricks of blood. On the balcony, over a cigarette, Ebba lets slip to Kendall that there’s an even bigger scandal being covered up: India.
Funky numbers “I thought these people would be very complicated, but they’re not. It’s basically just money and gossip.”
Lukas Mattson is the epitome of an awful human being — arguably the Musk of the show — but as that quote reminds us, he’s not dumb. As Shiv butters him up, he’s a “self-teaching AI.” Or is he? Ebba suggests otherwise, but then in this world of shifty, semi-competent high-class grifters and quintuple-crosses, is he another empty suit (see Musk) or is he the lone genius in the room.
He also kneejerkedly tweets Nazi quotes, makes casual monkey comments re: Indians, and homophobia falls out of his mouth like a daring young male on a high-flying trapeze. Either way, Matsson is catty, manipulative, possibly a low-key fraud, and an Elon Musk stand-in (redundant?). And if you own any question he’s a stand-in for a certain Twitter tyrant, Dem operative Nate (remember Nate?) admits to Matsson he pays him his “9.99 a month.” Matsson also admits later that he “doesn’t always read people.” Musk has been forthright about growing up with Aspberger’s. Maybe it’s just this world of mean rich r
“I thought these people would be very complicated, but they’re not. It’s basically just money and gossip.”
Lukas Mattson is the epitome of an awful human being — arguably the Musk of the show — but as that quote reminds us, he’s not dumb. As Shiv butters him up, he’s a “self-teaching AI.” Or is he? Ebba suggests otherwise, but then in this world of shifty, semi-competent high-class grifters and quintuple-crosses, is he another empty suit (see Musk) or is he the lone genius in the room.
He also kneejerkedly tweets Nazi quotes, makes casual monkey comments re: Indians, and homophobia falls out of his mouth like a daring young male on a high-flying trapeze. Either way, Matsson is catty, manipulative, possibly a low-key fraud, and an Elon Musk stand-in (redundant?). And if you own any question he’s a stand-in for a certain Twitter tyrant, Dem operative Nate (remember Nate?) admits to Matsson he pays him his “9.99 a month.” Matsson also admits later that he “doesn’t always read people.” Musk has been forthright about growing up with Aspberger’s. Maybe it’s just this world of mean rich r