They make the same mistakes, over and over. They are incapable of keeping a secret long enough to surprise their adversary. The show’s driving force was the ongoing trauma doled out by a manipulative father and emotionally detached mother who left these three siblings forever scrambling for validation, only to have it yanked from their grasp just when they think it’s within reach. Logan Roy’s real legacy wasn’t the billion-dollar corporation he built, but the sons and a daughter he dumped into the world like a carton of battered, unwanted dolls missing tufts of hair. Their magnificent incompetence? Courtesy of Daddy, as well. Their excessive net worth was handed down to them by Daddy. Sometimes the violence was literal, like a prestige Punch and Judy show - it certainly looked like Kendall was about to gouge his brother’s eyes in the finale’s eleventh-hour showdown - becoming a physical manifestation of the spiritual violence they were forever inflicting upon one another. The show became an obsession for many, inviting audiences into an inner sanctum of lavish settings and private planes at their beck and call - and where viperous family dynamics reigned supreme. Pour one out for the Roy siblings, who take their leave of the TV landscape as unhappy and misguided as they were when “Succession” premiered on HBO in 2018.
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