Logan once, Roman says, toppled a government via fax machine-so what’s the big deal? Kendall justifies his support with familiar collaborationist logic: “He’s a guy we can do business with.” Roman alternately downplays and acknowledges the candidate’s creepiness, but his ultimate position is, “Nothing matters.” This nihilism is informed by a billionaire’s invulnerability to consequences, and by his father’s brutal realpolitik. Scary.”) Succession’s Republican bogeyman is more coolly snakelike in affect than Donald Trump is, but he stokes the same violent impulses that led to January 6. (Lukas Mattson, played by Alexander Skarsgård, provides the catchiest nickname: “Mr. Even Mencken’s steadfast supporter Roman uses synonyms for that word to describe him. Oh, that’s right-they’re electing a fascist. “So because we had so much chicken when we were kids, I have to like the fascist?” Kendall replies. When Kendall (Jeremy Strong) raises doubts about the scheme to help Mencken, Roman (Kieran Culkin) fires back with childhood resentments about his older brother always getting to pick what the family had for dinner. What’s worse, petty motives determine matters of unbelievable importance. Millions of lives can be shaped by individual physiologies-note the episode’s attention to consumption, like when Tom welcomes an Election Night diet of spaghetti and cocaine. “Tonight, my digestive system is basically part of the Constitution,” Tom (Matthew Macfadyen) tells Greg (Nicholas Braun) in a bravura comedy scene that lays out the episode’s serious subtext: The fate of the world is, at times, hitched to a few people’s guts. As it turns out, what these billionaire dummies do really does matter-and way too much. But as the show nears its end, a strange, almost distracting clarity is emerging. The “idiot kids,” as Logan once called them, behave so venally and inconsistently that it’s easy to write them off as dilettantes of no importance. Characters have churned and burned through schemes, goals, and ethical dilemmas, moving in a hurry but never accomplishing much of consequence. Until now, the show’s storytelling has been brilliantly messy, a splatter painting of moral and narrative ambiguity. The “clean” line also feels directed at Succession’s viewers. But for stressed-out voters, Mencken has an easy solution: Turn off your brain, squelch your ideals, and acquiesce to the strongman. Succession’s America is set for an extended period of confusion and strife that might make our own timeline’s electoral disputes- Bush v. Looking to take advantage of the confusion, Mencken agreed to kill the Mattson deal in return for ATN prematurely calling Wisconsin-meaning, eventually, the election-in his favor. Hours earlier, activists (possibly his supporters) had set fire to a voting center in Milwaukee, destroying 100,000 ballots. I'm so OCD about my cups that I order them from shortest to tallest in the cupboard.This story contains spoilers through the eighth episode of Succession Season 4.Īfter a night of dirty politics, the authoritarian-leaning presidential candidate Jeryd Mencken (played by Justin Kirk) dares to speak of purity: “Don’t we long, sometimes, for something clean?” he asks while giving his all-too-presumptive victory speech in the latest episode of Succession. He's such a neat freak, every time I drop a few chips while eating the guy whips out his handheld vacuum and cleans them up. My wife is really anal about making sure nobody wears shoes in the house.Īlternatively: My mom was always anal retentive when I was growing up if she didn't know where I was at all times she would call me and have me give a status report. Stickler is a word you might not see very commonly but if you mention it to a native English speaker they should get your gist. OCD is similar to anal in the sense that people are obsessed about keeping things neat, or in whatever way they think things should be. Neat freak is just as another poster mentioned, but it is an AmE colloquialism. You could say a number of things: anal retentive or just anal, neat freak, OCD referring to obsessive compulsive disorder, or " stickler for x"Īnal can describe someone who is clean to the point of it becoming a problem, however it is commonly used it in an exaggerating sense.
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