Tom tries to assure Logan he doesn’t mean anything he’s about to say. She’s just as bad as the rest of ‘em, and if you think otherwise (and oh I do sometimes), Succession is always ready to remind you of her fundamental Roy-ness. Like, yes, she has an open marriage, theoretically, because she demanded one, but she also doesn’t bother telling Tom she slept with someone else, sort of a core tenet of an open marriage. It’s clear that Logan would name her as a successor precisely because she’s not a completely horrible person, but now that she thinks she might take over Waystar-Royco she’s becoming the sort of striver her brothers are, which is to say one who believes morals are strictly optional, when you have the luxury of choosing. And in expressing her concern over the thought of Waystar-Royco gobbling up PGM, she makes the best defense of the news media I’ve heard in a while: “At some point, someone actually has to keep track of what’s going on in the world, who went where, and who wore a hat.”Īs you noted, Meredith, before we started working on this recap - and as I hope you’ll talk about more - Shiv’s occasional, very slight stabs at morality are fascinating. She rejects Connor’s offer to run his campaign with, like, 15 different variations on the word “no,” each somehow funnier than the last. So, in that sense, Shiv may have lost by winning so much.īut in another sense, Shiv is awesome.
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But it has left me terrified of whatever the rest of the season holds for Shiv, because you can’t be a TV character and have a hot streak like this one without some terrifying karmic justice waiting just up ahead. If you are a Shiv fan (as I believe we both are, Meredith), “Hunting” is such a good episode for her and for the incomparable Sarah Snook. Instead, while almost every other member of the Roy family attends the Waystar-Royco corporate retreat, she hangs out with Connor’s girlfriend/future first lady Willa then gets laid by a very hot, very dumb man. Intimidation! It works!īelow, Vox critic at large Emily VanDerWerff and The Goods senior editor Meredith Haggerty discuss the six winners and five losers of “Hunting.” Winner: Shiv Roy and her wonderful hairĮmily: Shiv remains confident that Logan really meant all that stuff he said about naming her as his successor, even though she stars on a show whose literal premise is “this guy can’t choose a successor, and everybody loses it as a result.” But because he is still keeping her at arm’s length, she is one of the few characters who doesn’t have to take part in Boar on the Floor. And so, a room full of people who actually want the same thing can be reduced not only to silence and lying but to complete and total debasement by the power of a little corporate yelling. While it should theoretically be easy for 13 or so people to convince one man to abandon a nakedly horrible idea, Logan is very, very loud when he wants to be. Everyone believes - but pointedly won’t agree - that Logan’s determination to buy rival media corporation PGM (a vague combination of MSNBC and the New York Times) is an ego-driven folly, like the kind of folly the world “folly” was invented for, but absolutely no one who works at Waystar-Royco will stand behind that opinion for more than 15 seconds. What’s most impressive about this horrible display is the sheer control that Logan has over the people around him. In the logic of the game, Logan’s employees are eating themselves. The episode’s centerpiece finds Logan locking his “top minds” in the dining room of a Hungarian castle for some morale-boosting and psychological torture, culminating in an improvised game that forces adult men to act like pigs and wrestle for hot dogs. It’s a very important skill for powerful capitalists to have, which is how you know capitalism is a great system that works.
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Since the end of Succession’s first season, Logan Roy has really regained his strength - if not his sanity - and “ Hunting” is a masterclass in how to be a terrifying business asshole who can make large groups of people go along with a plan they know is ill-advised.
Have you gathered your friends and family to play the hot new game Boar on the Floor yet? Get your sausages ready, so that you can give it a whirl at your Labor Day cookouts and whatnot.
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