One of the best parts of last year was getting in on the ground floor of 'The Bear' an truly underdog show that ascended to the top of the streaming mountain. There were all kinds of questions surrounding how they would cook up season two, and we now have some answers. The Big Lead's Kyle Koster and Stephen Douglas discuss the first five episodes, which reveal a much different recipe but some of the familiar beats that made us so hungry for more.

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The Succession finale lived up to insane expectations and ushered in a new era for Waystar. Ol' Tommy did it. The son of a gun actually did it. Kendall Roy has a promise he's chased since he was 7 ripped away. His brother Roman has a new casual shirt and deep wisdom. Shiv pulled the ultimate Shiv. Kyle Koster and Stephen Douglas discuss it all one last time.

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It's Succession's penultimate episode and it's set at Logan Roy's funeral in a gridlocked and tense Manhattan. He's still dead and nothing can get him out of the coffin, no matter how hard Roman would want that. There's an entire pew devoted to wives and mistresses. The future president/dictator is there and everyone wants a piece of him. Hell, everyone is there except trust ol' Tom because he has to work. Breaking down the second-to-last masterpiece this series will ever give us, and how it elevated an all-time great character even higher.

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Unrest in Portland. Burned ballots in Milwaukee. It's Jimenez vs. Mencken for all the marbles in what could be the last free and fair American election. And the narrative will be shaped by Disgusting Brothers doing coke behind a whiteboard, troll-in-human form Roman Roy, and a wide-eyed Kendall who can't find him own backboard. Inside a biting and hilarious Succession episode with dire consequences and some top-level physical comedy.

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Forty thought leaders, polls, and deranged billionaires gathered for the worst tailgate party a person could ever imagine to wait until they could wait for the election results to come in. Lukas Matsson does some transatlantic crashing because a dad man technically invited him and employs a charm offensive that was more offensive than charming with a crew every bit as deranged as the Roys. Shiv and Tom's sexting turns into something darker and final. Kendall gives another good speech and has plans to run a Reverse Viking, which sounds illegal. Gerri solidifies her future will be bankrolled by Roman. The Big Lead's Kyle Koster and Stephen Douglas break down the

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A Hail Mary effort to juice the Waystar stock price gets tipped around in the end zone before landing in Kendall's hands. For perhaps the first time in Succession history, a public speaking endeavor goes well. Roman goes full George Steinbrenner, firing people as though it were a bodily function. Shiv and Tom rekindle the magic by turning up the insults. Matsson sends a terrible tweet. Karl finds his voice. All that and more on The Big Stream's recap.

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It's off to Norway for the still-grieving Roy family, which rolls extremely deep. There are fjords and scenic views and not a single wam welcome. Chairman Lukas Matsson's re-eduction camp ends with a deal because he wrote down the biggest number, but it almost feels like a $197-per-share troll. Those aloof billionaires can be such scamps. This was a Succession episode about the art of the deal and weighty issues like if France is going to make it or if they will pull a Greece. Plus, there's a kill list and all sorts of weird blood sex stuff. We discuss it all.

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Waystar and the Roy children must move forward following the shocking death of L to the OG and one way to do that is to find a piece of paper in a safe representing his last wishes. Or his wishes before he changed his mind and either underlined or crossed it out. Just speculating comically here, but it might be better if something like that were to be, say, accidentally blown by the wind into a toilet and flushed. A week after an episode unlike any other, Succession returned to what it does best: put everyone together in room resembling a wake or sad sex party and let them cook. Also, Marcia is back and making big-time moves like moving real estate and humiliating wanna be television presenters.

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Well, Succession went and did it. They did the thing teased in the very first scene of the entire series, but not in the way or on the timeline anyone expected. Stephen Douglas and Kyle Koster of The Big Lead go through the stages of grief while on the air and arrive at a place of acceptance: that this was a remarkable and perhaps unprecedented television moment.

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The second episode of Succession's final season featured the Roy children going through the motions of taking Connor out for a sad bachelor party out in "Real America," a halfhearted but long-awaited apology, a harrowing look at the world of high-priced divorce attorneys, and a prospective ATN host who is just not ready for primetime.

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