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Join us and experience the betrayal, murder, lies, and schemes that take place as many fight for the right to become the Ruler of the Seven Kingdoms! A family of Wargs discover their abilities, a vengeful mother with a heart of Stone terrorizes the land, three dragons continue to grow and danger lurks at every turn. Forces are gathered, enemies become allies and soon blood will be spilled once more in this deadly Game Of Thrones. As it grows colder, it's becoming more obvious that Winter is Coming, but what most aren't aware of is that it's bringing The Others with it.
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Post by Cameron on Oct 2, 2022 3:33:24 GMT
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People gathering in glorious sunshine to make their loved ones as miserable as possible... who doesn't love a wedding? HBO's Succession has always been a study of wealthy wretchedness, and season 3's penultimate episode spares no one in its bleak juxtaposition of untold opulence and unbearable emotional agony -- including one of the show's main characters in a riveting cliffhanger that has viewers on edge before Sunday's finale.
Featuring the long-simmering father-son showdown between Kendall and Logan, episode 8, titled Chiantishire, is streaming now on HBO Max. Spoilers ahead!
A fight for a knife in the mud
Life is a number on a piece of paper. It's a fight for a knife in the mud. That's Logan Roy's philosophy, beamed into every house in America.
Logan had a hard life, born into a working-class environment, sent away from his mother and abused by his uncle. He had to claw himself out of harsh circumstances. But wealth and success haven't lightened or enlightened him. They've only hardened his world view. Still hewn from granite, he stews in an aggressively misanthropic view of the world and the people in it.
The problem is, Logan forces his toxic world view on the world. Through his media operation, he poisons global discourse with this assertion that life is a fight, that other people will screw you and you have to screw them first. He thinks he knows how the world works. But he'd also rather poison his grandson than show his son even a scintilla of conciliation. To Kendall, he's evil.
Kendall's total disinheritance
Head shaved and clad in soft earth tones (but still wearing his medallion), a melancholy Kendall is the ghost at the feast. Except he's increasingly haunted by the kid who died at Shiv's wedding, now the subject of renewed press scrutiny and on top of that an opportunity for Logan to twist the knife.
Amid the beautiful scenery, Kendall has never been so unhappy. He and his fellow elite have all the luxury and privilege they could want, and it isn't what they need. Wealth is simply a weapon to be wielded, a bolster to an overweening sense of superiority that doesn't match their all too human insecurities.
By the end of the episode, Kendall's face down in a swimming pool, presumably dead drunk... and also possibly dead dead? As the camera swims below him and his beer bottle gently bobs into the depths of the luxury pool, some viewers took this to mean Kendall may have drowned. I admit that on first watch I rewound these final moments a couple of times, but that was to satisfy myself that surely he couldn't be dead. For me, Succession isn't the sort of show to deal in anything as melodramatic as a cliffhanger here.
The scene feels more to me like symbolism, Kendall adrift in a moment harking back to Logan's cruel taunt about a dead boy "sucking water." And he's basically the main character! The loss of Jeremy Strong's intense performance as the fulcrum of the show would surely deflate the planned season 4.
And yet it's also a cruel show. What could be more cruel than Kendall's death, tawdry and pointless with no resolution between him and his father? They had their showdown but it only made clear to Kendall that his whole crusade has been for nothing.
Meanwhile, off screen, the timing curiously lines up with a gloriously scathing New Yorker profile of Strong, in which creator Jesse Armstrong and Strong's his fellow actors are deliciously candid about their colleague's histrionic acting techniques. It's certainly got people talking ahead of the finale.
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Harriet Walter returns as a rather more subdued Lady Caroline, struck with fear of macaroni and memorials.
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What happens in Sex Vegas
The episode starts with Shiv in her comfies at home while the big deal goes through. But Roman's continual dismissiveness galvanizes her, not to mention a heart-to-heart with Lady Caroline. Ducking out of the bachelorette party (she presumably couldn't bring herself to call it the proper Britishism, a "hen do"), Shiv's mother shows a vulnerability and honesty rarely seen in the Roy clan.
But even when her mother vulnerably tries to unpush Shiv's buttons, a Roy can only take that as mashing down harder on the button in question. Lady Caroline mentions her mother would turn in her grave, evoking a line of generations of cold mothers. And as Shiv races to start a family, she's another dysfunctional prospective parent planting the seed of another generation. God help the poor kids.
Not to mention Tom, who feels a little raw after a night of spicy pillow talk strays into the realm of emotional cruelty.
Succession recaps
HBO Succession season 3 finale explained as the family brutally bare their souls
Succession season 3, episode 8 cliffhanger: What happened to Kendall?
Succession season 3, episode 7 recap: Honesty is such a lonely word
Succession season 3, episode 6 recap: Hail to the chief
Season 3, episode 5 recap: Mad emperors rock the vote
Chiantishire
The episode's title, Chiantishire, is a nickname for a part of scenic Tuscany in Italy popular with posh Britons (chianti is a local wine, and -shire is a common name for an English county). This is the picturesque setting for Lady Caroline Collingwood's lavish wedding to slime badger Peter Munion. But fans hoping for more brutal tongue-lashings from the waspish Lady Caroline will be disappointed, as even the acerbic aristocrat is mortified by Logan's petty feud with Kendall.
Meanwhile, middle-class bridezilla and serial bankrupt Munion is a shameless social climber currying favor with Logan. He's also in the care home business, which is a telling detail. The UK care sector has been plunged into crisis by the twin blow of COVID and Brexit. Of course a man like that wants to snuffle his snout into the trough of government.
Feeling lucky
"Going to Macau. Feeling lucky." These five words throw the garden party into a spiral of confusion as eccentric tech big shot Lucas Mattson fires off scattershot tweets. These oddball social media posts are reminiscent of Tesla founder Elon Musk and his frequently combative online stream of consciousness.
Is he a visionary businessman shrewdly exploiting modern technology to advance his position, or just a dick? LOL, as if those things are different.
But Mattson is also desperately unhappy. He's sleeping miserably on the floor until he can properly research the best possible mattress. It seems that being extremely online can be just as isolating and awful as being extremely wealthy.
But as we barrel into next week's finale, Mattson lobs a growth bomb under the deal. Now the top brass realize that for WayStar to survive they may face a boardroom bloodbath.
Is Kendall dead? Can Logan and Mattson save WayStar? Will Shiv knife Roman? All will be revealed (sort of, probably) in this week's season finale. Season 3, episode 9: All the Bells Say, airs Sunday, Dec. 12.
Successive thoughts
Just as the press sniff around Willa's past, Connor proposes to the woman he met when she was an escort. What a beautiful moment. Aaaand she'll think about it.
Can you believe we first met Greg getting high and spewing out of a theme park animal suit? That kid wouldn't know what to do with Comfrey, but now he's looking past her at a Contessa on the next rung of the date ladder.
Roman may have finally screwed Gerri, and not in the way he's been craving. Which gives Shiv an opportunity, even if it means coldly disregarding the sisterhood.
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Post by Johnette on Oct 3, 2022 2:52:49 GMT
By Huw Jones LONDON, March 21 (Reuters) - British and European Union market regulators should look beyond public sparring this week over share trading to the "bigger picture" of future relations after Brexit, a senior British regulator said on Thursday. The Financial Conduct Authority lashed out on Tuesday when the EU's European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) said that if there is a hard Brexit next week, EU investors must trade 6,200 named stocks, including 14 UK shares, in the bloc and not in London. A UK exchange boss described ESMA's move as a "land grab". The FCA was not "at the table" when ESMA was drawing up its statement because it cannot take part in discussions on Brexit, Nausicaa Delfas, the FCA's head of international, told Reuters on Thursday. The UK watchdog supervises Europe's biggest market and must now decide whether to reciprocate if Britain leaves the bloc without a deal, meaning a ban on UK investors using exchanges in the EU. The FCA is keeping its powder dry for now. "We will have to just have to assess the situation as it develops, we will have to look at what our options are," Delfas said, declining to elaborate or say if ESMA's statement had taken the FCA by surprise. Industry officials say the clash does not bode well for UK financial market access to the EU after Brexit. Britain is likely to depend on the EU's equivalence system, meaning it would have to stay aligned with the bloc's rules. Delfas said Britain will be fully equivalent as it leaves the EU given it currently applies all the bloc's rules, meaning Brussels has no reason to cut off London. "I think we have to step back and look at the bigger picture. The reality is that we are the most equivalent country in the world," Delfas said. "Our markets are so interconnected that these sorts of issues not only have an impact on the UK but on the EU as well. It's in the EU's interests to find us equivalent as well." FCA chief executive Andrew Bailey has urged the EU to keep markets open after Brexit. Jonathan Herbst, global head of financial services at law firm Norton Rose Fulbright, told a conference on Thursday that ESMA's "blunt, political statement" raised the question of what happens if the EU does not reciprocate Britain's open markets stance after Brexit. "Our approach is to maintain open markets. We are guided by our objectives which is to make markets work well," Delfas said. (Reporting By Huw Jones, editing by Lawrence White) fishbiz.seagrant.uaf.edu wave.lccc.edu/webbridge~S1/showresource?resurl=https://asiaporntube.pro |
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Post by Ned on Oct 3, 2022 7:45:49 GMT
Paris Saint-Germain turned down the opportunity to sign Barcelona winger Ousmane Dembele because he did not fit the French champions' system, according to reports.
Director Luis Campos has revealed that PSG were very interested in luring the France star to the Parc de Princes this summer and organised negotiations with Barcelona.
Dembele was brought in by the Spanish giants from Borussia Dortmund for an all-inclusive fee of £136million in 2017.
Paris Saint-Germain held talks with Barcelona in a bid to sign Ousmane Dembele this summer
Luis Campos revealed that Dembele did not sign as PSG were 'playing with another system'
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According to , the PSG chief holds Dembele in very high regard and would have 'loved' to bring him to Paris in the near future.
Campos said: 'We didn't sign Dembele because he's a winger and we're playing with another system.
'I love Dembele, he's great but we had different plans'.
The winger joined the Spanish giants from Dortmund for a blockbuster fee of £136m in 2017
Injury has blighted Barcelona winger's career at the Nou Camp since his blockbuster arrival five years ago.
Dembele was ruled out of almost the entirety of the 2019-20 season with a series of hamstring tears and found himself back on the treatment table at the start last campaign due to a knee injury.
Having started this season with two goals and four assists in eight matches across all competitions, the Frenchman is hoping he can remain injury free for Barcelona ahead of a long and disruptive campaign.
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Post by Julia on Oct 7, 2022 22:48:17 GMT
Oct 7 (Reuters) - U.S.
President Joe Biden said Russian President Vladimir Putin's threat to use nuclear weapons is the biggest such threat since the Cuban Missile Crisis, as Russia's military leadership faced a rare domestic public backlash over the war in Ukraine.
CONFLICT
* Biden, commenting on Putin's threat to use nuclear weapons, said the United States was "trying to figure out" the Russian leader's off-ramp.
* A missile attack on the city of Zaporizhzhia in the southern region of the same name left some people buried under the rubble, the regional governor said, and was a reminder of Moscow's ability to strike targets even at a time when its forces have been pushed back in the south and east.
* A Russian-backed official in Ukraine publicly criticized President Vladimir Putin's "generals and ministers" for failing to understand the problems on the front lines.
* Ukraine's armed forces have advanced up to about 55 km (34 miles) over the last two weeks in a counteroffensive against Russian forces in the Kharkiv region of northeastern Ukraine, a Ukrainian general said.
Reuters could not independently verify the remarks.
ENERGY
* International Atomic Energy Agency head Rafael Grossi said the U.N. nuclear watchdog considered the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to be a Ukrainian facility.
* A crime scene investigation of the damages on the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines has strengthened suspicions of "gross sabotage," Swedish security police said.
* Norway said it would impose limits on Russian fishing vessels using its ports, in a further tightening of security following last week's leaks in the pipelines.
RAMIFICATIONS
* Putin said he expected sanctions pressure on the Russian economy to intensify, in televised remarks from a meeting with government officials.
* The Kremlin denied reports that 700,000 Russians have fled the country since the announcement of a mobilization drive to call up hundreds of thousands to fight in Ukraine.
* U.S.
intelligence agencies believe parts of the Ukrainian government authorized a car bomb attack near Moscow in August that killed Darya Dugina, the daughter of a prominent Russian nationalist, the New York Times reported.
QUOTES
Kirill Stremousov, the Russian-installed deputy head of the annexed Kherson region: "Many say: if they were a defense minister who had allowed such a state of affairs, they could, as officers, have shot themselves."
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy: "In Zaporizhzhia, after the first rocket strike today, when people came to pick apart the rubble, Russia conducted a second rocket strike. Absolute vileness." (Compiled by Robert Birsel and Andrew Heavens)
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