The Sopranos (1999 - 2007): What’s doubly sad about this is that a major contributing factor is that every time Chris tries to better himself, or tries to prove his loyalty to Tony, he gets mired more deeply in the situation, unable to escape from the man who increasingly views everybody in his circle as his subject… (Fittingly, in a late-episode moment, Chris sees Tony laughing in slow-motion, wreathed by cigar smoke. He looks like the devil.) (x)
Succession (2018- ): I think at base they do [love each other]…I think also the fact that she knows that Tom loves her, makes her feel that she loves him. It’s kind of like the chicken and the egg. I think there’s very much, for Shiv, a difficulty understanding love that’s not transactional. (x)
With billions of dollars, the Roys ought to be able to sleep well… And yet their lives have long been one big fever dream, vivid but disturbing, outwardly blissful but inwardly tortured. And Tom…may finally be waking up, utterly spent, from it all. (x)
