Barbara Lippert

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• 'Succession' Series Finale: With Eyes Open -- Or, Shiv's Choice in MediaDailyNews on 05/30/2023
  

  The final shot in the finale is devastating: Kendall is walking downtown in Battery Park, toward the East River that looks as wide and roiling as an ocean.

• 'Succession,' Season 4, Episode 9: The Fall Of Roman in MediaDailyNews on 05/22/2023
  

  Roman was the one who volunteered to deliver his father's eulogy, but seeing the casket in the church, he freaks out, sobbing "Is he in there?"

• 'Succession,' Season 4, Episode 8: No Brass On The Battle Field in MediaDailyNews on 05/16/2023
  

  Sunday's terrifying episode, "America Decides" give us the heebie-jeebies by resurrecting the ghosts of the 2016 and 2020 elections.

• 'Succession,' Season 4, Episode 7: The Scorpion Within -- Or, The Wreck Of The Waystar Fitzgerald in MediaDailyNews on 05/08/2023
  

  Shiv and Tom have a reverse Romeo and Juliet balcony scene: almost six minutes of an exquisitely acted gut-punch where each says terrible things about the other.

• 'Succession' Season 4, Episode 6: Living With The Undead in MediaDailyNews on 05/01/2023
  

  Yikes, he's aliiiive! What a shocker for this episode to open on a close-up of Logan's giant, pock-marked face.

• Kill List -- Or, Snakes on a Plane: 'Succession' Season 4, Episode 5 in MediaDailyNews on 04/24/2023
  

  Shiv plays it cool in her meeting with Mattson, on a mission to get her own connection going with him.

• War Of The Royses: 'Succession' Season 4, Episode 4 in MediaDailyNews on 04/18/2023
  

  It's only one day after Papa Logan's shocking death, but the "coronation demolition derby," as Shiv dubs it, is in full swing.

Comments by Barbara All comments by Barbara

• Let 'Em Eat Cake: After Insulting Dinner, NBC News Poobahs Party by Adam Buckman (TVBlog on 05/02/2018)
  

  would love to see some of the pics. bring em on!

• Go Figure: Dove's Lady-Shaped Bottles Make Eyes Roll by (Mad Blog on 05/13/2017)
  

  Thanks for all of your comments, people! This just in: I passed the baby aisle at Walgreens and two of the stumpy, hippy-sized bottles were invented originally for Dove Baby soap!

• Aspartaming History: Pepsi, The 'Un-Woke' Cola by (Mad Blog on 04/07/2017)
  

  thanks, Dean. I realize it's a very non-P.C. mistake, and it will be fixed. Caitlyn is her "parent" and I will leave it at that. I don't have to mention her former life. 

• Where's The Beef? The Preening De-Cleavage-ization Of Carl's Jr. by (Mad Blog on 03/31/2017)
  

  Craig McDaniel-- I have zero desire to see Sally May trailer parks in a burger commercial. Just something funny, fresh, that doesn't use the old bikini bull. 

• 'Amazing Mrs. Maisel': Could It Possibly Be 'Mad Men'-Worthy? by (Mad Blog on 03/24/2017)
  

  Deirdre-- thanks for the comment. I understand your points. I too checked on the year of the birth of the wall ovens. But I'd venture to say that there were precious few in prewar kitchens on the UWS-- those tended to look more like Lucy's kitchen. I guess the size and openness of the kitchen is the equivalent of the apartment the "Friends" lived in. You are right to point out the anachronisms in speech. And i couldn't imagine a woman baring her breasts then, either. But she's supposed to be a different kind of bird-- and got confidence in herself somewhere along the line. As they develop the plot, the challenge is to give her spirit but not the contemporary "you go girl stuff" that has become commonplace 50 years after the beginning of the womens' movement. 

• 'Amazing Mrs. Maisel': Could It Possibly Be 'Mad Men'-Worthy? by (Mad Blog on 03/24/2017)
  

  Absolutely, Dean. I didn't have room to get into all of them. But Nichols and May were geniuses. The difference is that they worked off each other, and made fun of a certain kind of elevated intellectual. May wasn't facing a drunk, hostile audience alone. There was also Totie Fields, and women before her, too. But they were few and far between before the 1960s. 

• Merkel Read 'Playboy' Interview Before Meeting Trump by Erik Sass (The Daily Blog on 03/21/2017)
  

  Great piece, Erik! 

• Cyrus, Road Blocks, And The Green-Eyed Monster by (Mad Blog on 03/17/2017)
  

  I forgot to end with the fact that using bulls in ads is dangerous because it's all so much, uh, bull. 

• Women, Bulls And Gendered Expectations by (Mad Blog on 03/10/2017)
  

  Also forgot to mention that she's facing "bull" -- the crap that goes along with sexism, etc. 

• Women, Bulls And Gendered Expectations by (Mad Blog on 03/10/2017)
  

  This is beyond belief revolting:http://nymag.com/thecut/2017/03/this-dude-humping-the-fearless-girl-statue-is-the-worst.html

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