But it’s a nice family portrait of Kendall, Logan, and Roman, and it has lived on as a popular header image for Succession coverage. The moment itself has passed into memory, like everything in that episode between the opening credits and Boar on the Floor. No doubt you’re familiar with this image, from Season 2’s “Hunting.” Screenshots via HBO In Succession, you can’t toss a retiree off a cruise ship without hitting a Roy in an unmarked baseball cap. But let’s spare a thought for a lesser crime of the Roys: crimes against the baseball cap. No doubt many thousands of gallons of internet ink will be spilled discussing those crimes and more in the lead-up to Sunday’s Season 3 premiere. Succession makes Hamlet look like Barney and Friends. We’ve seen the putative hero of the show Chappaquiddick a waiter at a wedding. We’ve seen them cover up rape and manslaughter. Their family business has been described as “hate speech and roller coasters” in a line played for laughs. Through two seasons, we’ve seen the Roys and their retinue (Roytinue?) scheme, plot, betray, humiliate, dehumanize, and bully. This show is a serious exploration of the silly people whose silly grievances cause so many serious problems in the societal downstream. In that way, Succession fits with the rest of creator Jesse Armstrong’s depictions of powerful farces, as well as executive producer Adam McKay’s explorations of the right-wing hate machine that clearly both fascinates and scares the hell out of him. Collectively and individually, every last rotten one of them. One of Succession’s great defining characteristics is the fact that the Roy family is not only evil, but also extremely weird.
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