Succession Rewatch: “Just Finessing”

Season One

There are four baseball/softball¹ games in history that have ever mattered to me: the Sex and the City girls chain smoking and meeting the “new Yankee,” Everybody Wants Some!!², Twilight, and the one that ends the Succession pilot³. The grotesque ritzy callousness of that game still unsettles my spirit, but all in all, the Succession pilot gets a bad rap for no reason. Kendall fucking up the Vaulter deal. Logan introducing Cousin Greg as “Cousin Craig” and Shiv having to correct him. Shiv telling Roman he smells like “Date Rape by Calvin Klein,” Roman reflexively replying “you wish,” and her darting an eye over to the camera … bellissima … cinema … art to me!