Succession created by Jesse Armstrong - Winner of nineteen Emmys, nine Golden Globes, three BAFTAs and a Grammy, and that may be just for the first season… it was called 'The most thrilling and beautifully obscene TV there is…' by the Guardian, and since they air it again on HBO here, I am looking at some of it, nevertheless, if you want to read more notes on films, there are more than five thousand posts on features from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other lists, along with reviews of magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other web pages on my blog and YouTube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html maybe you wish to subscribe

 

Succession created by Jesse Armstrong - Winner of nineteen Emmys, nine Golden Globes, three BAFTAs and a Grammy, and that may be just for the first season… it was called 'The most thrilling and beautifully obscene TV there is…' by the Guardian, and since they air it again on HBO here, I am looking at some of it, nevertheless, if you want to read more notes on films, there are more than five thousand posts on features from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other lists, along with reviews of magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other web pages on my blog and YouTube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html maybe you wish to subscribe

 

 

8 out of 10

 

I have already posted two notes on Succession, and one of them is here https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/12/succession-created-by-jesse-armstrong.html but since this is such a generous topic, and HBO is airing again earlier episodes from the first series, why not write a few more lines

 

Jesse Armstrong is a very talented writer, I have also seen In The Loop https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/12/in-loop-written-by-jesse-armstrong.html written by him and others recently, and it was a pleasure to watch, the irony, sarcasm and accuracy of the events depicted have been appreciated

Succession becomes relevant again – actually, it has never stopped being – now that there is a battle over a giant of the old days of film making, Warner, between Paramount and the new comer Netflix, the latter seemed to have sealed the deal, with about 80 billion or so, only to have Paramount push ahead with a hostile offer

 

Such maneuvers take place throughout the series of Succession, which had inspiration from the Murdochs and their obnoxious Fox News, the outfit that propelled the Orange Disaster to victory – spoiler alert, this will veer into other subjects, in my mind they are related, but you may feel you better leave now

The psychology classic Influence https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/03/influence-psychology-of-persuasion.html by Robert Cialdini comes to mind, in particular the Principle of Respect for Authority, in the series represented by Logan Roy aka Brian Cox, and in the real world by this Absolute Moron living in the White House

 

It would be interesting to look on the internet for The Milgram experiments, to see what people do when they receive orders from authority – there was also the case of mass suicide in Guyana, and alas, there are other experiments such tragedies elsewhere – Logan Roy has many periods of frailty, weakness, but his power is immense

Catastrophically, the fool who has been voted the most powerful man in the world – though given his mental decline, I would not see him as ‘powerful’, dangerous, sure, not strong – is playing with the toys he has at his disposal, threatening allies – the news of the past day mention his sending an envoy to Greenland

 

Games People Play https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/games-people-play-by-eric-berne.html is another classic of psychology by Eric Berne, and we learn from this about the way we blame others, Orange Woland has placed plaques at The White House attacking predecessors, unprecedented, the definition of madness

I have seen The Governor earlier, and we talked about this lunatic (he calls others that, but he is the epitome of mental) the funny governor mentioned his mother-in-law, how he did not go to his house in the hills, because she would come and she is too much, she keeps commenting on everything, news all that is on TV

 

 Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – I am on Goodreads as Realini Ionescu, at least for the moment, if I keep on expressing my views on Orange Woland aka TACO, it may be a short-lived presence

Also, maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the benefits from it, other than the exercise per se

 

 There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know

 

As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html

 

Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works

 

‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’

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