How 'Succession' feeds the hidden fantasies of its well-to-do viewers
Do the show’s fans secretly identify with the characters’ pursuit of power and pleasure?
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Do the show’s fans secretly identify with the characters’ pursuit of power and pleasure?
>> yeah. >> it's like you're watching a spy novel, and you're thinking this is a reality show. but it's real. and i'm just wondering how you felt watching this happen as the cameras were rolling and saying, wow, this is real life unrolling in front of me. >> you know, it's this extraordinary thing when you're making a documentary. sometimes you find yourself in these unbelievable places, in these unbelievable situations. and i think this film especially embodies the spirit of that. here i was, a guy from toronto, canada, who had never really delved into foreign policy in any meaningful way, ne...
Dangerous individual, as a result of this but i think mccarthy just as much because with all of the six s votes to become speaker, what did he promised? these are the questions we have in realtime. we are seeing that play out. we are seeing that play out throughout his leadership that he clearly isn't detritus or many people for so many things. what i'll tissue willing to give up there on the road? if you also think about the fact that you know, how easy can he be ousted from his position right? that was one of the concerns. and so with his, him thinking look i am hanging on by a thread as it ...
>> there are speakeasies, there's pool halls, there's a lot of action going on. >> the sky was the limit. there was nothing that you could not do. >> when thinking about tulsa in the early part of the 20th century, it's important to remember where the greenwood community is. it abuts downtown separated by the frisco tracks. if you live in a society in which white supremacy is the prevailing paradigm, but you live in a community in which you can look across the dividing line, the frisco tracks, and see black folks driving nice cars and wearing fur coats and living in nice homes, then it causes ...
And it can't be trusted, and no elections can be trusted in the future, unless everything changes. >> i mean, the cognitive dissonance of kemp, raffensperger, steriling, saying the election was free from fraud and then every official in the state backing a law to make it more difficult to vote because the trump base was so squawky and age stated is just -- it's stunning. it should never be overlooked as one of the prices of donald trump's lies. ruby freeman and shaye moss lost their name and as pa trish is that rightly points out, so did hundreds of other election officials, because of the lie...