Connor's Wedding

Probably the best episode of the decade, just insane acting and what a curveball, succession is one of the best shows of all time and this is why. An all time classic show.

This was the red wedding of succession, a rollercoaster of emotions. This episode should be considered a top 5 episode of all time and arguably one of the best if not the best episode of TV ever, they handled everything right and they make you feel like you are a part of the crew, it's just amazing.

This episode is a masterpiece, and it's getting the recognition it deserves.

10/10 episode and all the Emmy's to them.

Jeremy Strong, Kieran Culkin, Sarah Snook, Alan Ruck, Matthew Macfadyen, Nicholas Braun, Brian Cox & the cast gave us a masterclass. I've never seen anything like it.

I watch so much television and have never once considered writing a review, until I watched Connor's Wedding. I created an account just to write this.

This was by far the best episode of succession, and one of my top single episodes of television I can remember. I can't even properly describe the emotions I was feeling. An overwhelming amount anxiety, empathy, sadness and amazement. It felt like that episode went on for at least three hours, in all the best ways. Hats off to every single one of the actors, especially all the siblings. Such amazing work by all of the cast and crew involved.

If you are reading this and haven't watched the episode yet please do as soon as possible, without looking anything up. I'm so excited to see where the rest of the season goes.

I would've reviewed last weeks episode but I barely slept and figured I'd skip one just wanted to say that cause I love every episode. Succession is truly one of the best written shows ever made easily in the top 20 list if there was one. This is genuinely a brilliantly emotionally directed episode by Mark Mylod! Feels so authentic entirely with everything that surrounds the family and Brian Cox's character. Every lead deserves an Emmy nomination for they're continuously great work, I can't praise enough. Only a few locations used which is well done and a tour de force throughout. On a separate note I rewatched The Whale with my mom before this which is just as masterful and impactful.

I think we tend to set too much store by Series Finales. Admittedly, where any story finally lands is very important, and, accordingly, the finale will effect the final flavour that any series, in its totality, leaves on the palate. That's inescapable. However, in the same sense that the last page of a novel is less important than its last 25% (usually the bit of the book that contains the meaty climax), generally, the last season of a series matters far more than its eventual conclusion.

If we think back to Breaking Bad we can see a good example of this. Breaking Bad was probably the finest example of a narrative driven drama series ever made (The Sopranos is more of an anthology of thematically related episodes than it is an ongoing series telling a single story, and The Wire doesn't have one overall arc, but rather 5 separate arcs - one per season). If you forget what happens in the last episode of Breaking Bad and, instead, think of its final 8 episodes as one long novelistic style climax, its overall shape feels very different. Its single greatest episode (and undoubtedly the climactic one) is not the finale (not even close) - It's the one three episodes from the end: "Ozymandias". The reason "Ozymandias" remains the best episode of TV ever made is because it just feels "right" as the main conclusion to the events set up way way back in the pilot. It is the episode the whole series was working towards from the beginning far more than the finale ever was/will be. There's a sense of inevitability to it, and even if we couldn't have guessed exactly how things would go down when when we did finally reach the place we come to in "Ozymandias", we knew those dominos had to fall, one way or another.

I think the same can be said for "Connor's Wedding". It's the one episode we've been waiting for since the beginning, and it will, I imagine, go down as the singular episode most fundamental to the Succession viewing experience. It was the series climax (even if it came sooner than expected). It's the one that blows the whole series wide open and which alters it beyond repair. Everything that comes after will now be composed of beautiful falling action; the bomb has already been dropped, the rest is fallout.

Given that it carries this hefty weight, it is just as well that it is so bloody good. It's a close to perfect hour. Very few series have got their main climax so right: Breaking Bad did it with "Ozymandias" (by far the greatest example), The Leftovers did it with "Certified", the final season of The Shield did it, Better Call Saul did it, Six Feet Under did it, and that's probably about it. That was the exhaustive list until today...

I don't even know where to begin. This episode was a masterfully crafted gut punch of conflicting emotions, ranging from celebration to sorrow and everything in between. The entire cast, specifically Jeremy Strong, Sarah Snook, Kieran Culkin, Matthew Macfadyen and especially Alan Ruck deserve every award under the sun for this absolute masterclass in acting. Mark Mylod as usual directs to perfection, Nicholas Brittell as usual knocks the score out of the park, and most importantly Jesse Armstrong, as usual, deserves the highest praise possible for his brilliant, poignant, and emotionally riveting storytelling. This is perhaps the best episode of the best show to air since The Sopranos, and there are still seven episodes to go.

Simply put, this episode is a masterpiece.