1. Set Better Boundaries

Gil: “Do you know what is special about the hours between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m on the night of March 12?”

Tom: “Uh, no sir.”

Gil: “That was the only two-hour period in which you did not send an email to Mr. Hirsch with the title, ‘You can’t make a Tomelette without breaking some Greggs.’”

—Senator Gil Eavis and Tom Wambsgans, Season 2, episode 9

Yes, Tom Wambsgans, Roy family in-law and head of the ATN news network, gets many of the best lines in Succession. And yes, his “Tomelette” masterpiece (heard at the senate inquiry into the cover-up of abuse in Waystar’s cruise division) might be the show’s most famous quote this side of “Fuck off.” But Tom’s story is just as much about Cousin Greg. Greg Hirsch, a distant relation ...

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