This battle, between father and first-born (if we’re not counting Connor, which we’re not), has always been Succession‘s true essence it has been the bookend for each season. Much of the third season (the seven episodes to which reviewers have been given access) is about how and with whom Kendall will take on the mighty Logan.
Sitting pretty as the headline act, Kendall – poor, broken, dead-eyed Kendall – can only be smug for so long before he needs to deal with the seismic implications of his stunt. Kendall takes the fight to his father Logan in ‘Succession’ season three. It continues, in dense, hour-long episodes, to be exactly as it was before: funny, awful, irritating, cold, brilliant.
The third season of Jesse Armstrong’s unanimously praised, gong-laden drama makes no changes to its core lineup or modus operandi. As with the season before it, this was a finale that left you making unhealthy noises at your screen and punching the furniture in delight. When we left them – spoiler alert – Kendall had suddenly slid the knife into his father’s back on live television, refusing to be the sacrificial lamb for Logan’s complicity in corruption – and, in doing so, putting not just a cat but an entire Bengal tiger among the pigeons. Yet we still love it – and after a tortuously long break the Roys, TV’s most irredeemably horrible family, are back. Watching Succession feels like being dragged underwater by a shark who is calling you a cunt. Most of the time, let’s be honest, you wouldn’t even call it pleasure. It feels neither relaxing nor like a form of escape.
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Why do we watch Succession? The experience isn’t like sitting through any other TV show.
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