I don’t think I’m alone in noticing a small, but growing, amount of dread. My theory is that all this stasis is deliberate, that season three of Succession is testing our patience because a killer blow is about to rocket out of nowhere and leave us all permanently winded. Something that Succession won’t be able to reset the clock on. It was the same as the episode before that, and the episode before that.Īnd yet we keep watching, and I think I know why. At this point, there is little need for HBO’s nicely packaged Previously on Succession pre-roll montages, because we all know what happened in the last episode. The only real movement from anyone this season has come from Kendall and his growing messiah complex. Shiv and Roman are still bickering with one another.
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Shiv and Tom’s marriage remains in a holding pattern full stop. Logan is stuck in a holding pattern of gruff plotting. And yet, if you were forced to explain exactly what has happened so far this season, chances are you would struggle.īecause, really, what has happened? The season began with the fallout from Kendall’s unexpected public broadside against his father and, well, notwithstanding the FBI investigation, that is still where we are. It remains a staggeringly brilliant show an ice-cold snake pit of ever shifting loyalties, flecked with some of the most giddily baroque dialogue we have heard since Deadwood. W e are now more than halfwaythrough Succession’s third run.