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Reynolds Woodcock

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  1. I picked a great day to walk home from work!
  2. A belated thanks for posting. I’ve walked by this building basically every day for the past 7 years or so. Gaetana’s was an institution but frankly wasn’t very good (at least in the past few years). Looking forward to trying this new spot. Justine’s, just around the corner on 10th and Hudson, is a good addition to the neighborhood as well.
  3. You think I’m talking about 3 point shooting ability when the modern player in question is Draymond Green? Christ, just give up and go salivate over You Tube videos of Bill Lambier tackling people.
  4. And those guys you mentioned couldn’t crack a playoff roster in the current days. They are the illusion, not the guy with actual skill at playing basketball.
  5. Fuck Karl Malone.
  6. Any fellow corporate law dogs or bankers figure out the timeline on this deal? Am I right that Logan struck a biz-level deal for a partial divestiture at price X, but the board hadn’t officially approved and thus definitive docs were never signed (in which case I have some serious questions about confi given all the overt public references to the deal/regulatory concerns). If the above is true, then the final episode would be the board finally voting to approve a deal, which is the new and improved full deal, followed by a signing ceremony of the merger agreement. In which case, I’m looking forward to Season 5 of Succession when Ken and Stewy rally the shareholders to block the deal from closing!
  7. This thread makes me sad. After rotating between France, Italy and Spain for the last 5 years (sans 2020), we now have a 5 month old and my wife is scared of the overseas travel ordeal. As of now we just have a house in Southhampton for 2 weeks in July, a long weekend trip to Napa, and a week in Whitefish in September at a friend’s place. If not Europe I’d at least like to squeeze in something like St Barts.
  8. Look, I would cut the throat of every other partner at my firm if it meant making an extra million, so I get the allure of the almighty dollar. But being an empty suit puppet for a guy who openly admits he is going to try to fuck your wife? That’s a little much even for me. I continue to think Tom is just the tallest midget in all of this. I see that guy walking on the Hudson River greenway occasionally. Always alone, always looking like he’s ready to jump. Intense cat.
  9. There are multiple interviews with the actual director of the episode where he talks about Shiv‘s thought process leading up to her no vote, and specifically how seeing Ken with his feet up on Logan’s desk broing it up with Stewy was a turning point. Maybe you think a Tom/Shiv alliance would have been better writing, but that isn’t actually what happened.
  10. Macfayden obviously doesn’t understand Succession - Chopper
  11. Tom is a stand in for the middle class striver’s role in the pitfalls of capitalist excess. Willing to sell a piece of his soul to gain the ever-illusive leap in wealth and class rank, and willing to sell an even bigger piece (or in this case all) of his soul to ensure he never falls back down from whence he came. Sure, it’s exaggerated, but he is the most relatable character to the masses (myself included). But in the end, Tom gained nothing of permanence, other than a guaranteed miserable job with no security, trapped in a loveless marriage to a spouse who will never view him as her equal, and on the precipice of raising a child who is no doubt completely fucked.
  12. Agree with all of this except for the bolded. Tom has nothing but a higher salary, easily expendable at any moment. He is a “pain sponge” for a guy who told him he wants to fuck his wife, and you know the Roy prenup is air tight. Tom keeps his watches and suits for the time being, but in no way is he a “winner”.
  13. Lol, what a terrible reading of the meaning of that scene.
  14. Did you watch the episode? Kendall tells Roman it’s Greg on screen almost immediately. It’s not exactly a huge leap to assume that information was given to Shiv off screen, who relays it to Tom on screen. I can understand why you didn’t enjoy the show if you miss subtle or not so subtle bits of information.
  15. Threw mine on a nato while hiking this weekend
  16. Jesus that is a depressing memory. Not much has changed in terms of getting pitchforked if you don’t fawn over our commitments. You would think after the last 13 years that the recruiting board as a whole would learn to be a little skeptical.
  17. It’s also not near as watched as Yellowstone, or Walking Dead back in it’s day, or NCIS, or any other number of brain dead shows, which is what GOT turned into after they ran out of source material. America by and large is full of knuckle dragging troglodytes
  18. You can’t end your series as poorly as Game of Thrones ended and still be considered among the greats. Absolute garbage. If we’re limiting to hbo, my personal top tier would be the wire, sopranos, leftovers, and succession, followed by deadwood. Not my cup of tea necessarily, but I think sex and the city at least deserves to be mentioned in terms of iconic, influential shows.
  19. I think the season ends with Prez elect siding with the Swede, the Swede brushing off Shiv, and the Board telling the kids to fuck off, implying: (1) Ken ends with a completely broken family and unable to grasp his birthright just when he finally realized how to be a reasonable cosplay of his father; (2) Shiv ends with no business propositions and a marriage destined to fail (though probably off screen in the future), doomed to repeat the maternal failings of her own mother; and (3) Roman ends as a broken shell of a little man. In other words, obscenely wealthy but fundamentally broken people, the perfect metaphor for a late-stage capitalist society that Jesse Armstrong wants to drive home to the viewership.
  20. This series seriously fucks
  21. Woah, had no idea Johnny Sack was the son of Schembechler.
  22. It seems to be totally fucking random. I applied like 7 months ago and it just said pending with no other details. Then my wife applied and got approved immediately. Then my application got approved within a week. We’ve traveled to the exact same places. Fortunately they seem to give everyone a free pass while they deal with the backlog (which is further proof that this is all just a scam to extract money from us to skip the line).
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