love and hip hop hollywood season 6 episode 3

“This isn’t to suggest that Succession is a racist show, merely that its whiteness lets it avoid confronting the subject of race with any real complexity, which is of course one of the many perks that whiteness has historically conferred on actual white people,” Jack Hamilton writes in Slate. To some, Succession’s inability to confront its racial blindspots is a glaring omission. We’ve seen more of Roman’s penis than substantive depictions of Black characters, and you know what, on this show (and this show only), that’s OK with me. Kendall is the guy who tweets “listen to Black women” for clout while he’s talking over one, and always will be - even if the show never explicitly shows us this. But, again, this is Succession and the show we are watching is one of debauchery, not redemption. If Kendall had actually absorbed any of Sophie’s scathing critiques, or taken the legal advice of his lawyer, or started paying attention to Jess as a capable coworker instead of his minion, maybe he wouldn’t be face down in a pool in Italy when we last see him. He’s still a villain, even if he’s a walking tragedy. He’s just a misogynist, ignorant, egotistical, broken man, just like his dad. Sophie brought the audience, and Kendall, back down to earth. People started to feel sorry for the poor rich boy with daddy issues. Sad Kendall was slowly emerging as the lone hero on a series stacked with villains (Shiv being the worst of them all I said what I said). As he was methodically dishing out orders to his team while planning to descend from the rafters singing Billy Joel’s “Honesty,” we were left wondering where Jess was to look up from her phone long enough to say “OK” with her mouth and “Are you fucking kidding me?” with her eyes. After seasons of putting up with Kendall’s bullshit tirelessly, and being by his side for every single one of his f-ckups and breakdowns, Jess disappears in the episode “ Too Much Birthday” where Kendall plans an extravagant, obnoxious, extremely on-brand 40th birthday party. She is so incidental, she has inexplicably been absent from the past two episodes. Jess is a character I spend way too much time worrying about considering how inconsequential she is to the plot. Every major Black woman character this season has been strictly in Kendall’s orbit, but none more than Jess. The latter was a task for Jess given by Kendall, the prodigal son who after three seasons is unraveling in real time after trying, and failing, to overthrow his father - again.

Love and hip hop hollywood season 6 episode 3