At Ken's maximalist 40th birthday party, the Waystar team celebrates a sudden release from consequences while Ken looks for a resolution of his own. Film programmer and critic Madeleine Wall joins the RoyCast to discuss some of the episode's extreme highs and lows: Tom's King Kong moment and subsequent rough night, vagina tunnels, Connor's bag, Greg's game, Lukas Matsson, the return of Naomi, an ascendant Roman, a frustrated Shiv, dueling Electra and Oedipus complexes, Hudson Yards, Ken's music taste, childhood regression, the death wish, the aftereffects of abuse, and more.

Madeleine Wall (Twitter: @parietines) is a film programmer for Indie Memphis and critic whose writing has appeared in Cinema Scope, Sight & Sound, MUBI, and Quill & Quire. https://www.indiememphis.org/

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Succession 3.7, "Too Much Birthday" with Madeleine Wall

The original and still independent Succession podcast. Seasons 1-3 available widely.

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