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Hello and welcome to the thing which I have been most excited about for about the past year, which is Slate Money Extra, the Succession Recap mini season of Monday morning Slate Money shows where you have all, of course, stayed up watching Succession last night

because what else is there to do on the Sunday, except for watching the greatest television show

on TV right now. And we are going to just recap the entire episode and talk about what's

going on with some of the most interesting people in media. I need to say this right up front. If you haven't seen episode one, don't listen to this show,

go and watch episode one. It's fabulous. And then you can listen to the show. All of these shows

are going to be filled with spoilers for all of the episodes. so don't listen to this show unless and until

you've watched the show. Now, I am, of course, Felix Salmon of Axios. I am joined by

Emily Peck of the Huffington Post, who is also a Succession Stan. Hello. And for this first

episode of this little mini-season, I cannot imagine anyone better to come on this show to join us than Ed Lee of the New York Times.

Ahoy, ahoy.

And you have been covering all things media for-de- Forever and ever.

Forever and ever.

I think Ed started somewhere in the 17th century.

He knows everything about everything.

And most importantly, you've been just as obsessed about this show as anyone.

I have been.

I mean, I watched the first season as they aired, as they came out.

And I, for the most part, liked it.

But I definitely had some issues.

I mean, when you cover an industry so in-depth for so long, you're like, eh, that's kind of not right. That doesn't quite work. Were you worried that some of it wasn't quite very similitudinous enough? No, but that's the thing, is I actually adore just how geeky it got about finance and media and corporate takeovers. And like capital stacks. Oh, absolutely. Like this is kind of great. But then when you get it wrong, you're like, ah, why did you have to go do that now? Right? Like, it's almost better sometimes if they didn't quite go that deep because you're like it. I mean, maybe I wouldn't be as interested, but that's. But yeah. So the thing which I was obsessed by more than anything else is, like, who are these characters? Because everyone obviously sees Murdox. Oh, yeah. You know, there are two sons who are sort of like rivals. There's the daughter who's kind of out of it, but kind of not out of it. But there's the older, there's the older son who's like, who's sort of not really involved in the family.

And that's prudence, right?

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