What I’m Watching: Succession

Succession: Season 3, Episode 2 “Mass in Time of War” (B+)

I didn’t expect that everyone was going to come together so quickly, and I also thought that Kendall was going to reach out only to Shiv. Kendall was smart to try to go to his siblings right off of the bat because of his very logical paranoia about how his father might try to shut things down. Roman was absolutely direct about how he was a spy for his father, whereas Shiv seemed to be legitimately feeling out what position was best for him and Connor just wanted to be part of it. Roman saying that he just “spoke to the market” was an entertaining except from their passionate and mostly unkind conversation, which also included Kendall telling Connor that he was irrelevant and not wanted, which somehow wasn’t as harsh as the words that he had for his sister when she pulled out. She may now have what she’s always wanted since, per her father’s own words, she’s “the one who matters.” I like that Tom pushed bank on Shiv questioning whether he loved her when he just replied thank you, and we got to see some of his angry side when he called Greg to threaten him. Greg is absolutely hapless, repeating lines like “I am not a part of this necessarily” and clarifying whether the lawyer sent by Waystar chooses him or if he’s the one who makes the choice. Somehow, Ewan is much kinder to Greg than Logan is to his offspring, even though Greg makes it very hard considering just how idiotic most of what he says is. I’m not sure what the more intimidating delivery was – the Trojan horse or the donuts.