Loneliness for the wealthy is typically the result of lacking what money can’t buy. In the latest episode of Succession, the obscenely rich Roy family finally shows us what loneliness looks like among billionaires, and the face of that is none other than Kendall Roy.
In Sunday’s episode, for his 40th birthday party, Kendall turned his messiah complex into “the world of Kendall,” where he gathered whichever celebrities were willing to attend his fuckboy playland. Though he’s currently the bane of his family company’s existence after a press conference that called out his father for a history of misconduct on the company’s cruises, seeing his siblings attend the party sparks a flicker of joy from his usual cold, catatonic gaze. For Kendall, it was another sign of familial connection superseding business quarrels. But that satisfaction was short-lived when he realized that his party was just an end to another business means for Shiv, Roman, and their father.
