Hello everybody and welcome back to another episode of NerdSoup, I am Beau Oliver,

joined here today with Aaron, the NerdSoup Monkey, and we are back to review Succession,

Season 4, Episode 7, Tailgate Party.

Directed by Robert Pulsini and Shari Springer-Berman and written by Will Tracy, another solid

episode we were wondering if this was going to take place at a football game or a sporting

event, but no, it's the day before the election, the most consequential and important

election of our lifetimes, as is every single election according to the mainstream media,

but I thought it was very entertaining, you know, the amount of drama that they've been

able to build between their characters in these small spaces, like Episode 4, when they're

all huddled in Logan's townhouse, right, the episode, the characters never leave that

house, but there's so much tension, there's so much drama happening within, and it's

similar with this episode where most of it does take place at Tom and Shiv's house,

them hosting this party, and I thought the main theme of the episode was deception, showrunner

Jesse Armstrong talked about it at the end, the influence of who's afraid of Virgin

you wolf about a couple trying to navigate turmoil in their marriage amidst social gathering,

so you have to put on the smiling faces, but behind closed doors, or in this case, see

through doors, tempers fly, and it's not only between Shiv and Tom, but also what Matt's

in is trying to keep under wraps, and Kendall, since he became Koseo, all the back door

dealing and maneuvering that he's been trying to do, so... Part of my plans, I love them,

but not in love with them, you know, one head, one crown. Deception was the main theme,

and once again, the writing was absolutely brilliant.

Yeah, deception seems to be like the theme of just like the entire show.

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