,” which launches its third season Oct. 17, is not a show that will back away from a challenge.
Kendall’s public declaration of his father’s culpability in various scandals has split the Roy family, and the show, in two. In Loganland, an unsteady titan attempts to stabilize his position. And in Kendall’s corner, instability is to be relished. Swirling around the patriarch are his other children — the obsequiously crass Roman , the emboldened Connor and, last and least in Logan’s affections lately, the unfortunate Siobhan .
This creates a state of affairs that Roy foot soldier Gerri describes as “snake linguine”: On Logan’s side, the timeline of succession apparently has shifted rapidly forward, while the person doing the deciding grows less predictably daily. This brings to the fore childhood aches and patterns: Though the season pivots as Kendall seeks familial affirmation and chemical alteration at a birthday party, Logan seems to be the only character getting older.
This struggle extends to characters a bit lost within the show. That Greg and Tom are siloed in a story of their own is a potent statement about the Roy family’s treatment of perceived outsiders. It also means there’s a toxic-buddy dramedy embedded in “Succession,” one that often feels simply ancillary. More effectively drawn is Siobhan’s disaffection as, placing poor bets on her father’s sensitivity, she finds herself on the outside of an empire now defined by its rage.
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