Acceptance is the first step of growth, and we all need to accept that this season of Succession has been, at best, an inconsistent follow-up to one of the best seasons of television HBO has ever delivered. That’s why this season’s sensational penultimate episode begs the question: what took so long?
Last night’s episode was jam-packed with everything that made the second season of Succession an instant classic. Logan and Kendall turned an exquisite dinner into a cerebral chess match, with Logan using his own grandson to unknowingly test the food Kendall prepared for poison. Caroline, the mother of the Roy children, reveals teenage Shiv chose living with her media magnate father over her mother before giving her only daughter an existential slap in the face by claiming she should’ve never had kids, a fate she informs Shiv is appropriate for women like them. Roman’s dick pic almost gets Gerri fired, and Tom receives the most emasculating dirty talk from Shiv. And that’s not even factoring in the vague cliffhanger at the end of the episode that could completely change Succession as we know it.
