Succession

I’m loving Succession. I started watching it about a week ago. I never watched it during it’s initial run on HBO. Not sure why. There was a time when I watched all those Sunday night 9 pm shows on HBO and Showtime – The Sopranos, True Blood, Boardwalk Empire, etc. But for many years now, I’ve been watching other stuff, I guess.

I did the same with Breaking Bad. I never watched one episode during it’s initial run and then after the show was over for about a month, I started watching it and got addicted. I think I’ve seen every episode about five or six times. My two favorite episodes are Dead Freight and Face Off.

As for Succession, I just finished season one. My favorite character is Kendall Roy played by Jeremy Strong. Love him – the character and the actor. He commands the screen when he’s on.

I do have one complaint – the darkness. The show is very dark. And I don’t mean the storyline, I mean the filming. It’s as if they are trying to save money on lighting or something. I guess it’s to set the mood, but so many times I can’t see what’s going on. The tv screen is almost black! Have you noticed that?

I literally have to shut the lights off in the room and make it pitch dark to see what’s going on. From an article in TV Line, regarding many tv shows: “Dark twists are fine, but scenes that are lit so dimly we can’t tell what is going on, or even with whom, are quite problematic.” The whole article is here.

Other than that, I love it all.

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