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A deep dive into what makes HBO's Succession so similar Shakespeare's King Lear and Titus Andronicus. Hint: it all comes back to piss. And also love languages.
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Contents
0:00 Intro
2:17 Act 1 Pentameter, Piss and Capitalism
15:14 Act 2 Jargon, Rhetoric and Language Games
26:35 Act 3 Love and Lies under Logan Roy
33:16 Act 4 Why Succession Slags Off Shakespeare
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Date of upload: Apr 27, 2023 ^^
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Top Comments of this video!! :3
Brilliant quote (from 11:30): "It may feel odd to assert that you can humanize someone whilst also not going easy on them. To humanize is to refuse to demonize, and in many ways, why shouldn't we demonize these super-rich silver-spoon assholes, right? But Jesse Armstrong is far cleverer than I, Succession understands that to dehumanize the rich, because of all the evil things that they do, would be just recycling the same dehumanization that the rich engage in --in order to become capable of doing all of those awful things. To humanize the Roys is therefore revolutionary because to humanizeĀ is also to refuse to glorify, and therefore to refuse to go along with the Roy's ideology of themselves as superhuman. It refuses to present them in the way that they would want to be presented. If the characters in Succession were able to watch Succession, they would think it's very bad optics".
That is so good, that I wish I had written it.
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One of the things I love about Succession is its theatricality. I wasn't surprised to find out that many of the show's writers are playwrights - among them Lucy Prebble, Alice Birch, Susan Soon He Stanton and Lucy Kirkwood (billed as an executive consultant for the first season).
This comes through not only through the words, by turns ferocious, original, elegant, witty (I'd say Succession is the TV show most in love with language since Deadwood, which also raised profanity to Shakespearean proportions) but also in the way many episodes are structured like plays: with an ensemble of people who have reason to hate each other gathered in a single location to mark a single event - a hospital room, a wedding, a birthday party, a boardroom coup, a merger discussion, a wake.
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Iāve felt that Tom and Greg are the Rosencratz and Guildenstern of the piece. Somewhat clueless guys who think that they are players, but are really just pawns. Queen Gertrude brings R & G to Elsinore to find out whatās going on in Hamletās head; Logan cultivates Tom as a mole who can pass on info about what Shiv and her brothers are thinking
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concise, amazingly edited, thoughtful, fucking funny and that sweater.... this was brilliant!!
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Great analysis! My two cents is that Succession is definitely geared towards being "high art", and as such occupies an interesting role as it speaks in different levels to us commons and the "elites". As you said, this show does humanize them but it does so in an interesting way, by showing that money controls the Roys' lives more then they actually control and profit by it. The inability to grieve after Logan's death because of their commitment to the company and the market makes a strong point about the privilege of the non ultra-rich who are allowed to simply grieve, be human in one of the most human points of anyone's life. This is not unlike the claim that fighting toxic masculinity isn't just about liberating women but also men who are made to fit this toxic mold at their own expense.
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I could be way off-base, but I think in a way Loganās death does kind of follow Learās trajectory, if we consider Waystar to be one of his āchildrenā (the only thing heās created that he can openly and unreservedly love). He must have understood Matssonās intentions for Waystar to at least some degree (that he doesnāt plan to keep it intact), so he died on his way to ākillā his favourite child.
Absolutely loved this video, canāt wait for the next one!
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Glad YouTube recommended this video to me, this was super interesting! I keep trying to get my English major friend to watch Succession by being like "no you don't get it it's like Greek tragedies or something" but now I can make an even more compelling case to her lmaO
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Toward the end of your video I was thinking about the legacy of jazz, which is my craft. I feel that a different social class of people used to enjoy jazz and now itās sort of become music for rich people almost exclusively, and itās quite bizarre to witness that. Also, I thought one of the only times that Logan acted like a snob was when he yelled at the waiter at Shivās wedding, the one that ended up dying in the lake.
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how do you not have 200k subscribers? this is amazing you made so many deep connections
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Actually one of the most well written video essays Iāve ever had the pleasure to watch!
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Just wanted to jump in and say thanks so much for all the lovely comments. I'm trying to reply to as many as possible! It's so encouraging to have this lovely feedback. I have big plans for this channel so do stick around and in the meantime please keep sharing this video with any of your fellow succession fangirlies xx
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This was a fantastic essay, well done! You really understand Succession and what the show is saying through the lens of its use of Shakespeare. I hope you continue to make more videos!
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I loved your essay thanks. I teach English in Italy and Shakespeare is my favorite āthing āto teach because although I am not a great expert I think I am able to transmit a bit of my passion to them ā¦and I love succession because for me it is a modern take on Shakespeare
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This video will do big numbers
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I don't usually post comments, but the algorithm is s#$t and your content deserves to be seen by much more people. Keep up the good work! Cheers
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Iām so happy @kendallroylookingsad posted about your video essay. This is brilliant. As a Literature major and Lit teacher, Iām always noticing parallels, but I never thought it all out with such clarity and such perfect examples from Succession and from Shakespeare! I subscribed. Looking forward to hearing more of your thoughts!
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This is an amazing video essay on Succession! I can really tell that not only have you put a lot of time into editing and producing this video, but that you also posses exceptional literary analytical skills. I will be sharing this everywhere!
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I was also thinking about Coriolanus, particularly when heās exiled from the kingdom. He expresses no remorse and, like Logan, becomes the dragon until his hubris ultimately does him in.
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Literally an absolutely incredible video, one of my favorite succession analysis videos out there. And the editing is simply amazing. Thank you so much for making this.
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@ozcartadeo2918
1 year ago
I think this is the best Succession video essay I've ever seen, really hope it goes well
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