grendelsmilf
something i think succession does really well is how it establishes each character as having their own unique and consistent speech patterns. like, I see gregspeak being mocked most frequently, which is fair, because everything he says is, uh, simultaneously vague and awkward, and also, um, deeply insane, so to speak. but there’s also kendallspeak, which is when you use a million fucking buzzwords and business jargon bullshit to say absolutely fucking nothing. or loganspeak, which is actually whatever it needs to be. fuck off. or shivspeak, which requires smug intellectual posturing to sound smarter than you’re scared you’re not. and then of course, my favorite is romanspeak, because he is genuinely so unhinged and terrifyingly charming and oratorically compelling and magnetic in his absolute insanity as he babbles his fucked up little nonsense. even as close as they are when compared to their separation from the rest of the world, they still all live in their own semiotic speech bubbles, wherein they are all grasping to establish their presence in a room that is fundamentally inhospitable to all forms of life.
