‘Succession’ recap, Season 3, Episode 5: Keeping it in the family

This is the week Logan and his family have been waiting for: We’ve finally reached the shareholders’ meeting where Stewy and Sandy 2 will try to wrest control of Waystar Royco away from the Roy family by persuading enough shareholders to vote with them.

This season, each week, we are ranking members of the main cast of Succession based on how fast they are speeding toward moral ruin.

The whole thing really was about to go up in smoke, and he’s completely unable to specify what he would have done differently, but he insists that one way or another, he would have made it work without giving up the four board seats Shiv did.

There seems to be some specificity to this physical problem — a UTI for which he stopped taking his medication — but Logan’s physical and mental frailty has been hanging over the series since the first episode ever, and now it’s creeping back to the forefront.

It’s also worth noting that we all saw how angry Marcia was, very recently, about Logan and Rhea.

It’s also interesting to see her loyalties pried apart when Sandy 1 and Sandy 2 start asking for things in the deal — getting rid of the private jet and being able to veto any member of the Roy family from becoming CEO ever — that affect the kids more than they affect Gerri.

So irate, in fact, that he takes the stage at the shareholder’s meeting to put himself back in the conversation and continue his phony “I’m the Roy who really cares” approach.

Of course, he’s doing this partly because Greg went back to Logan, but Greg went back to Logan partly because Kendall wasn’t exactly being very reassuring.

Obviously, she was acting out of self-interest when she hopped into the negotiation with Sandy 2 and made it into an unspoken agreement that they, the overlooked daughters, would take care of themselves and each other.

It’s also interesting to see how strongly she reacts to Tom’s desire to have a baby.

He just really does not anticipate how she’s going to react to the news that he’s been tracking her cycle on his phone, and that’s a mistake.

He also seems surprised and then humiliatingly flattered that Logan chooses him as the one to take him to the bathroom, and he’s the first one to see that something is seriously wrong.

He seems to be the one who most acutely fears his father’s passing, perhaps because he’s the one who feels the most alone in the world otherwise, the most propped-up by that parental relationship.

He is so fixated on his presidential campaign that he sees everything through that lens, especially the surprise news that the current president is not going to run again.

On the one hand, it’s easy to appreciate the fact that Connor has kept himself far enough away from the business that he doesn’t seem panicky about the shareholders’ meeting itself.

But by then his grandfather is irate at him for disrespecting the great lawyer Pugh and it seems like he can’t go back.

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