Succession’s Unbearable Election Episode Felt Like 2016 All Over Again
Posted on AllSides May 14th, 2023
From The Left
Breathe out, if you can. Succession’s presidential election is over—and, unless the Democrats find a way to reconstruct the 100,000 or so ballots lost in that mysterious Wisconsin fire, it seems Jeryd Mencken, the alt-right imp played by Justin Kirk, will be the next leader of the free world. It is, perhaps, an inevitable conclusion—though that doesn’t make it any easier to watch the episode, titled “America Decides,” unfold. “I was so scared watching this episode,” cohost Chris Murphy says in the latest edition of VF’s Still Watching podcast. “The...
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