Serious People
“I love you, but you’re not…serious people.” — Logan Roy, Succession
Brian Cox played the role of his life with Logan Roy in Succession. In Episode 2 of Season 4, Rehearsal, Logan delivers this line to his three delinquent children who, as ever, are playing toy soldiers with their vast wealth which they are only possess by virtue of being his children. Logan is an awful person, everything that people think Rupert Murdoch is but far, far worse. He is, though, a very serious person. He does not fuck around.
Years before I watched this episode of Succession and so obscure that it didn’t trigger any sort of memory in me until now, I had these thoughts. I said something similar, about a place that I worked at, in the Winter of 2021.
11 November 2021
I sit down, far heavier than is necessary. I take special care to manspread slowly then lean back slightly in my seat. They both look at me silently, the faint hiss of static from the speakerphone the only noise in the room. One of them, sat opposite me, I stare at — angling my head to the right slightly as though considering my prey. I abruptly rise slightly, doing so she is startled, but merely to extract my phone from my pocket, and slam it face down on the plywood table. I never use a phone case — to give you, my reader, about how truly obnoxious I was at this point in my life (in case it isn’t…
