11: Succession: Oedipus and Failsons
Ordinary Unhappiness
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The Freudian Family in Downton Abbey
The show is shot in a way that it never looks desirable, which is probably why people turn to trying to identify with the characters. The shallow depth of field in the focus of the camera, the way that it's edited, the way the performance are allowed to walk all over each other also feels on theme to this. This is like really telegraphing, tightened examples of families rising and falling in America. I don't think it's a coincidence that fucking like Kendall is in the final scene is gazing off at a dim looking, not in focus. His eyes are not even in focus, Statue of Liberty, right? Like, I don't give a shit. None of us
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