Hi! (succession anon from before ☺️) I used to have a tumblr and always love your Reylo posts but I actually recently left Tumblr because the constant drama was too stressful. But I hope you don’t mind if I randomly pop in your inbox with my questions/thoughts about Succession! 😊 Speaking of Q’s, do you have any thoughts on why/or generally the significance of the emphasis of hands? It’s like watching a Jane Austen movie every time there’s a hand flex on a shoulder or tugging someone closer 😂
I'm staying on tumblr because it's still the best way to share and discuss meta and it's easier than twitter to avoid assholes on here BUT TBH.... GOOD CHOICE 💀
I'm always up to discuss The Succ 🥂
And THE HANDS..... THE HANDSSSSS. I have so many feelings about the hands and the focus on microexpressions and fleeting looks on Succession. It's not a show where feelings ever get discussed but emotions and feelings are also the main focus of the show and the contrast is DELICIOUS.
Succession is really just a period drama but instead of victorian repression of physical urges and of unvirtuous feelings you get corporate machismo and cynicism with the same result of needing microinteractions to express Unspeakable Things. They can't TALK about the feelings onscreen, they can't have dialogues that are openly about them. It's all about the subtextual flow of emotion just simmering beneath the surface at all times but never full on boiling, and you need unspoken signals to express unspoken needs that can't be said out loud. It's heartwrenching and excruciating and SO great to watch.
