After last night's episode of Succession, we only have three more weeks until the series ends. Like me, you're likely asking yourself what you even even want to happen by the time Succession wraps its final episode—let alone how it will actually end. We got a taste of what, ultimately could lead to each character's downfall last episode. Honestly, it's still anyone's game, which is both very exciting and incredibly worrisome. So much is riding on how series creator Jesse Armstrong pulls off the ending of Succession. An unsatisfying conclusion, at least in the minds of the show's fans, could dampen the legacy of one of the most popular HBO series of the last decade. Just ask Game of Thrones. |
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The roots of this country are rotting. |
| Gifts so good, she'll be suspicious. |
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Hannah Gadsby wasn't gunning for fame, but it came for them anyway. The comedian's paradigm-shifting Netflix special, Nanette, went viral in 2018, rocketing Gadsby into an orbit of celebrity that, to this day, they cannot process. "I genuinely don't understand this world," Gadsby, 45, tells me over a recent evening Zoom call from their home in Melbourne. They look bewildered, like a dog in space, as they try to square the person they were before Nanette with the star they have since become. Gadsby worries that fame will turn them into a "bad apple." At the same time, Gadsby recognizes that they now have the kind of privilege that affords such cluelessness. The realization has put them in an existential tailspin. |
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Whether you're into aliens, shipwrecks, or gladiators, this season's new releases are a thrill ride to remember. |
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The king might have insisted on a facsimile of his mother's epic coronation ceremony 70 years ago. After all, who could blame him? He's been waiting in the wings for quite a while. At her coronation, Elizabeth was 27; Charles is pushing 75. But things were very different then. In 1953, the great and the good—civilian or military—who crammed into Westminster Abbey were survivors of a world war, still a very recent scar on the British psyche. Food rationing that had kept the nation on starvation-adjacent diets for well over a decade didn't fully end until 1954, a year later. Things were grim for ordinary Brits. The coronation, however, was a stark and welcome contrast, ushering in a new mood, dubbed by the pundits "the New Elizabethan Age." |
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