Monday, February 3, 2025

TV Quote of the Day (‘Succession,’ on Why Its Very Rich Family Is Different From You and Me)

Shiv Roy [played by Sarah Snook] [to a threatening ATN anchor Mark Ravenhead]: “The thing about us [is] we don't get embarrassed.” —Succession, Season 3, Episode 4, “Lion in the Meadow,” original air date Nov 7, 2021, teleplay by Jesse Armstrong, Jon Brown, and Jamie Carragher, directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini

That is the key to the oligarchy, folks. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote of their "vast carelessness," but he might just as well have added, "and shamelessness."

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