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731023, it's a trip how this show makes being wealthy look pretty miserable
Posted by Mynoriti, Tue Aug-07-18 12:10 PM
I came across this article from a couple weeks back that touches on it.
Talks about how even movies with anti-capitalist messages like Wall Street tend to make being obscenely wealthy still seem kind of awesome, but there's not much in this show that makes you that envious.

You see it alot with Greg and Tom's interactions. When Tom clowns him for wanting California Pizza Kitchen, I thought he'd take him to a bomb high end steakhouse or something, but instead they go eat Ortolan that I assume is crazy expensive and looks disgusting. They go to the club just to hang out alone together away from the action and spend thousands on alcohol because it's what they're supposed to do ("we're being totally ripped off" it's great!"). Even that exclusive sex party didn't look appealing at all. Tom gets snowballed because he thinks it's just what you do.

Compare that to something like Billions where even if you don't strive to be them, a lot of shit they do and have seems pretty fucking great, and you see the allure for someone like Taylor getting sucked in. But as we talked about earlier in this thread, the people on Billions are talented, and highly intelligent. The Roys are second rate people with inherited wealth (Connor and Roman being the worst). It's fun contrasting these shows. i love them for different reasons.

https://www.theringer.com/tv/2018/7/26/17615724/succession-hbo-capitalism-greed