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Succession Season 2 - Episode 4: "Safe Room"

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Vanity Fair

Arts

4.21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Joanna Robinson and Richard Lawson discuss "Safe Room," the fourth episode of the second season of Succession on HBO, where there's a funeral and a problematic ATN anchor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Season 2 of Julia, the Max Original Series about the Life and Times of Julia Child returns

0:09.5

Thursday, November 16th. Stream on Max and listen to Dishing on Julia, the official Companion Podcast.

0:18.6

Thank you all for making it. We're going to be the number one media conglomerate in the world.

0:25.0

The key here is act like a happy family.

0:28.0

We're the Osbuns and I'm daddy warbugs, okay? I always wondered one of you kids to take over.

0:38.0

People would do well to remember there's going to be a new sheriff in town.

0:41.0

Here's to us. Here's to us.

0:47.0

Hello and welcome back to you still watching Succession.

0:51.0

I am Vanity Fair.

0:52.0

Senior writer Joanna Robinson.

0:54.0

And I'm Vanity Fair Chief Critic Richard Lawson.

0:57.0

If you are just joining us, what we do every week on still watching is we break down the latest episode of our current sort of TV obsession.

1:04.0

Right now we are firmly aboard the HBO Succession train of this great season two and

1:10.1

today we will be talking about season 2 episode 4 titled Safe Room and no other

1:16.4

spoilers beyond that just up to that episode. This is a great episode of

1:22.4

television and this season is just like it's really killing it Richard.

1:25.8

Yeah, it's humming along and you know I've been a little bit wary of the show to kind of literalizing it's like I don't know the real world I guess but I

1:38.5

thought they handled like the whole thing of like you know a problematic news

1:42.0

anchor and people protesting outside there were subtle note you know a problematic news anchor and people protesting outside

1:43.7

there were subtle note you know the nods to like the proud boys and various other

1:46.8

groups I thought it was done without a heavy hand which I appreciate it.

1:51.9

Yes we get we get the introduction of the problematic Aitien anchor.

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