{"id":6211,"date":"2023-05-19T22:31:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T20:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yalpertem.com\/blog\/?p=6211"},"modified":"2023-05-20T05:32:59","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T03:32:59","slug":"greg-in-succession-s04e08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yalpertem.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/19\/greg-in-succession-s04e08\/","title":{"rendered":"greg in succession s04e08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The written dialogue couldn&#8217;t carry the weight of the actual scene but at least highlighted the heavy usage of the empty filling words in the conversations. I loved watching it and wanted to note it somehow. A loyal evil performance by Greg. It was the moment I discerned the monstrosity of the family decision. Jess&#8217; reaction was also brilliant.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>T: Hello.<br \/>\nR: Hey, Tom.<br \/>\nT: Hey.<br \/>\nR: So, call it. You can call it.<br \/>\nS: No!<br \/>\nT: We&#8217;re calling it?<br \/>\nR: Yeah. We called Wisconsin, now we&#8217;re gonna call Arizona, so we call the election. We call the election?<br \/>\nK: Call it.<br \/>\nR: Call it.<br \/>\nS: No. No, Tom. No. You&#8217;re making a terrible mistake. Please don&#8217;t.<br \/>\nT: Hey, guys, it&#8217;s not my call. It&#8217;s not my call.<br \/>\nR: Okay?<br \/>\nT: It&#8217;s your call. It&#8217;s up to you. If you say so.<br \/>\nR: I say so. Call it. I say so.<br \/>\nS: Fucking Pontius Pilate.<br \/>\nR: No one cares. No one&#8230; no one cares.<br \/>\nG: Hey, yeah. Okay.<br \/>\nT: Hey. Tell &#8217;em I&#8217;m coming down.<br \/>\nG: Ok.<br \/>\nT: Yes. We&#8217;re gonna call it. Yeah, we&#8217;re calling for Mencken.<br \/>\nR: All right.<br \/>\nG: Oh.<br \/>\nT: Okay. Tell &#8217;em I&#8217;m coming. All right. Okay.<br \/>\nR: Great work, Tom.<br \/>\nT: Thank you<br \/>\nR: Good stuff. Great night.<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\nG: (sighs) Fuck.<br \/>\nJ: You okay?<br \/>\nG: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I, uh&#8230; I&#8230; I&#8230; I have to go, um&#8230; tell them, I think&#8230; we&#8217;re calling it. For Mencken.<br \/>\nJ: Whoa.<br \/>\nG: Yeah. So&#8230; I should&#8230; I should&#8230;<br \/>\nJ: Right.<br \/>\nG: I should go. I&#8217;ll get in trouble if I don&#8217;t go.<br \/>\nJ: Okay, dude. I mean&#8230;<br \/>\nG: Yeah. I mean, it&#8217;s not really my choice, right? So&#8230;<br \/>\nJ: Sure. I mean, right. Yeah.<br \/>\nG:\u00a0Yeah. I&#8217;m just&#8230; I&#8217;m pressing the button. Or I&#8217;m not even pressing<br \/>\nthe button, I&#8217;m just&#8230; I&#8217;m asking them to prepare to press the button.<br \/>\nJ:\u00a0Right, and all that does is just, like, launch a nuclear attack. So&#8230;<br \/>\nG:\u00a0It&#8217;s not gonna change anything if I don&#8217;t go. So&#8230;<br \/>\nJ:\u00a0Couple minutes. So, I mean&#8230;<br \/>\nG:\u00a0Right, right.<br \/>\nJ:\u00a0You&#8230;<br \/>\nG:\u00a0But realistically&#8230; Wow. Crazy.<br \/>\nJ:\u00a0Yeah.<br \/>\nG:\u00a0Crazy. crazy one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The written dialogue couldn&#8217;t carry the weight of the actual scene but at least highlighted the heavy usage of the empty filling words in the conversations. I loved watching it and wanted to note it somehow. A loyal evil performance by Greg. It was the moment I discerned the monstrosity of the family decision. Jess&#8217; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/yalpertem.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/19\/greg-in-succession-s04e08\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">greg in succession s04e08<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[716],"tags":[780],"class_list":["post-6211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote","tag-succession"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9WYIs-1Cb","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7292,"url":"https:\/\/yalpertem.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/01\/my-2024-books\/","url_meta":{"origin":6211,"position":0},"title":"my 2024 books","author":"yalpertem","date":"1 January 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Aydemir, F. (Ed.). (2022). 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