Vaulter’s head, Lawrence, is played by Rob Yang, who kept hanging out in the opening credits, as if to suggest that, yeah, Vaulter might not have been terribly important to the action of season one, but its day was coming.Īnd then, oh boy, did its day come. Indeed, the show’s pilot prominently features Kendall purchasing a possibly-Gawker-but-possibly-Vox-Media-but-probably-BuzzFeed company called Vaulter. After all, the Roy family is involved in entertainment and media, and like all families who make their money from selling people news, information, and enjoyment, they’ve been sniffing around new media for ages. HBOĮmily: As a person who works in digital media, I should have expected to be sideswiped by Succession at one point or another. This week, Vox critic at large Emily VanDerWerff and The Goods senior editor Meredith Haggerty join forces to talk the five winners and five losers of “Vaulter.” Loser: Vaulter Kendall, eyes deadened, prepares to kill Vaulter because his dad told him to. Kendall so badly wants to win his father’s love that he guts the thing he so proudly brought to his father back in the pilot, and hundreds of lives are shattered as the collateral damage. And if you’re someone who works at an online publication - like, say, Vox - you’re probably getting some night sweats just thinking about the scene where Kendall casually fires an entire editorial staff.īut this is also the theme of season two writ large: The Roys are so caught up in their own psychodramas that they are incapable of noticing how their actions hurt anybody else. The tragedy is that “Vaulter” doesn’t chart a new day for the company but, instead, the death of the site, thanks to some doctored data and the capriciousness of Logan Roy.
Succession season 2: 4 winners and 4 losers from the premiere It’s also a terrific parody of the very specific, doom-haunted culture of online journalism, constantly glancing at real-time pageview stats in a cold sweat and fretting over the Facebook algorithm. Yes, Vaulter has been part of the show from the very first episode, but the episode devoted to it isn’t just a terrific parody of online journalism. “Vaulter,” the second episode of Succession season two, gets around this by creating a fake site - Vaulter, naturally - that is like every other website somehow, in ways that are hard to pin down.
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But most of the time, fake websites on TV come off as especially fake.
Every so often, a show like BoJack Horseman will come up with something like GirlCroosh, the pitch-perfect satire of women’s interest sites that Diane works at for much of seasons four and five of that show. If you are someone who works at an online publication - like, say, Vox - you’re fairly accustomed to TV shows taking swipes at your workplace and getting things desperately wrong.
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