![]() ![]() I loved writing about the beginning of the second season, and I loved writing about the end. I think it's a show I love partly because I love writing about it. I have grappled and wrestled with that fact, and I don't have great answers. ![]() I think of myself as not really a fan of shows where everybody is horrible, and I don't know that I've ever loved a show where everybody is horrible as much as I love Succession. Logan Roy (Brian Cox) in the latest season of Succession. I still think the first third of the movie - the perspective of Jean de Carrouges, Damon's character - is painfully boring, but after talking through it with Roxana, I don't know what else they could have done that would have carried the positive things that the movie had to offer, like Jodie Comer's interestingly three-sided performance as Jean's wife, Marguerite. Because even though I still would say I don't care for it, Roxana helped bring out some of the things I did admire, and helped illuminate some of the decisions that made the least sense to me. Indeed, I walked out not liking the movie much, although not necessarily in the ways I feared I wouldn't - which was reassuring, because whenever my reaction to anything is negative in exactly the way I thought it would be, I worry about whether I've given the movie a chance to make the argument in its own favor, which every movie deserves if you're going to undertake a review of it in the first place.īut as you'll hear on yesterday's episode of Pop Culture Happy Hour, it was talking through the film with Stephen Thompson and particularly with Roxana Hadadi, who liked the movie a lot more than Stephen or I did, that was most interesting. Movie Reviews 'The Last Duel' is a 'Rashomon'-style #MeToo story - and a messy medieval epic ![]()
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