Success is hard to come by in the Season 3 premier of Succession, which aired last night. As the media and the Department of Justice circle the doomed, dysfunctional Roy family, and patriarch Logan (Brian Cox) continues to waffle over his replacement, the Roy progeny are busy preening and plotting against each other, in increasingly expensive, claustrophobic environments.
In other words, it’s another season of Succession, only more so. The fear with every new series of a hugely popular show such as this is that the makers will spoilt it. The first episode is a little suffocating, but that’s no bad thing. The board is being set.
Kendall (Jeremy Strong) spent most of Season 2 drug-addled and wanly obedient, but in the season finale, perhaps encouraged by his edgily-coiffed bisexual girlfriend, he publicly accused his father of covering up sex crimes on the WayStar cruise line. The opening of Season 3 finds Kendall constructing a strategy for his ‘revolution,’ which will be televised, memed, and highly litigious.
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