50 TV Shows You’d Be Crazy to Miss in 2019
2018 was a colossal year for TV, and that reflected on all of us here at Consequence of Sound. As we launched the early phases of our growing television coverage, we were immediately struck by the...
View ArticleSuccession Season Two trailer captures a “happy” family: Watch
HBO has unleashed the second season trailer for Succession. As expected, the Roys are uglier than ever, particularly as they stand tall over the vicious media industry. On the other hand, though,...
View ArticleTV Review: Succession Remains HBO’s Sharpest Series in Season Two
(Editor’s Note: The following review covers the second season’s first five episodes.)The Pitch: Succession follows the Roys, a ludicrously wealthy New York media family (think: the Murdochs) led by...
View ArticleExplaining Our Succession Obsession Through Kendall Roy
It took Succession some time — both episodically and in the real world — to take off. I am one of the few who got into it immediately, thanks to the title of the second episode alone (see: “The Shit...
View ArticleNicholas Braun (Succession’s Cousin Greg) will star in new show about the...
As the naive Cousin Greg, aka “The world’s tallest dwarf,” Nicholas Braun has been one of the breakout stars of HBO’s Succession. Braun is already capitalizing on the success, as he’s set to lead a new...
View ArticleSundance Film Review: Zola Turns a Twitter Thread Into a Thrilling Dark Comedy
This review is part of our Sundance 2020 coverage.The Pitch: “Y’all wanna hear a story about why me & this bitch here fell out????????” began Aziah “Zola” Wells’ epic 2015 Twitter thread, a...
View ArticleSuccession’s Cousin Greg, a.k.a. Nicholas Braun, Drops Pandemic Pop-Punk Song...
Kendall Roy isn’t the only member of his family to hit the mic. It would appear Cousin Greg also has proclivity for music. As Rolling Stone reports, Emmy-nominated actor Nicholas Braun, who plays said...
View ArticleHBO’s Succession Turns Its Family Feud Into All-Out War in Season 3: Review
The Pitch: When last we left the backstabbing, mega-wealthy Roy family, prodigal son Kendall (Jeremy Strong) finally plunged the dagger in the back of his imperious father, Logan (Brian Cox), by...
View Article10 Times We Couldn’t Look Away from Tom and Greg’s Toxic Bromance on Succession
Like all great relationships, the story of Tom Wambsgans (Matthew Macfadyen) and Cousin Greg (Nicholas Braun) of Succession includes the age-old question: “Have you ever visited the California Pizza...
View ArticleNicholas Braun Writing HBO Series About a Struggling 2000s Indie Band
Succession star and NYC nightlife darling Nicholas Braun is ready to put his music nerddom in the spotlight. The actor is teaming up with producer Chris Buongiorno to develop a half-hour series for HBO...
View ArticleNicholas Braun to Voice Succession’s Cousin Greg on The Simpsons
This is our Multiverse of Madness: Cousin Greg is coming to Springfield. Nicholas Braun will be voicing an animated version of his lovably maladroit Succession character in a forthcoming Season 33...
View ArticleDocumentary Now! Reveals Season 4 Premiere Date and New Cast, Including...
Television’s best documentary parody series is about to begin its “53rd season,” and given that “Season 52” premiered in the spring of 2019, it couldn’t come soon enough. IFC’s Documentary Now!,...
View ArticleThe New Yorker Bad-Date Story Gets Frustratingly Literal in Cat Person:...
This review is part of our coverage of the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. The Pitch: In 2017, Kristen Roupenian regaled The New Yorker readers with a startling, elliptical short story called “Cat...
View ArticleViral Short Story-Turned-Movie Cat Person Gets Theatrical Release Date
Kristen Roupenians’ viral 2017 New Yorker short story is headed to the big screen: Rialto Pictures has shared the official release date for Cat Person, the upcoming thriller from director Susanna...
View ArticleCat Person Director Susanna Fogel on the Gray Areas of Harrison Ford Movies
Director Susanna Fogel knew that the film Cat Person had the potential to start a conversation about modern relationships, because of the reaction to the source material. The new dark comedy, starring...
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