In the wake of last week’s news that the current president is not running again, the Roys descend upon the secretive political gathering where the Republican nominee for president is to be effectively anointed .
This season, each week, we are ranking members of the main cast of Succession based on how fast they are speeding toward moral ruin.
And he always wants to have his ring kissed , which is why he goes through the whole thing about demanding Boyer bring him a Coke, and then pretending he was kidding.
One of the things I find interesting about this week is contemplating whether Logan was serious, ever, about proposing they pick Connor.
Ultimately, Logan is willing to throw his weight behind literally anyone, no matter how noxious, to continue to be rich and powerful.
It’s interesting that they chose to have Roman be the one who wants to bet on Jeryd Mencken .
Roman and Logan are both going to pick this guy to spite Shiv? I get that the message is supposed to be that the Roys all treat this like a game, but …
Shiv is pushing for Rick Salgado , who has approached her with a kind of alliance offer, not unlike the alliance she made with the second Sandy at the shareholders’ meeting.
And Kerry is giggling at his taunting of Shiv, which is the kind of thing that’s a big gamble for a person in Kerry’s position.
Kendall is such a jerk in this episode.
When he insists on insulting the regulators when they can hear it, because he somehow thinks he’s going to intimidate them, Lisa has had enough and gives it to him straight about how much his own behavior is hurting him.
Kendall snaps pictures of Tom leaving the meeting and makes sure Tom sees him do it, but Tom mostly considers this a pretty weak effort at intimidation compared to what Logan is capable of.
Connor thinks he’s in his element here — even if Willa , who was sort of Connor’s quasi-nemesis at the meetings at Tern Haven last season.
You might expect Greg to be able to pull some shred of his morality out of the fire with his statements to the family that he’s not 100 percent comfortable with the way they’re trying to pick the next president in a hotel room, but all that really means in this case is that he knows better than they do why what they’re doing is bad.
I think you can establish that rich people sit around making cynical decisions about politics in ways that are a little less explicit than this.