Our culture team discusses, reviews, and covers the third season of HBO’s award-winning series.
The boar is on the floor. The Greggs are in the Tomelettes. And Season 3 of Succession is finally here. The following contains spoilers for Succession, up to and including Season 3 Episode 1. A full two years have passed since HBO’s billionaire-family soap opera last aired, but only moments have …
An episode chock-full of emotional violence may have ended with real tragedy. This article contains spoilers through the eighth episode of Succession Season 3. What’s clear by now is that the Roys need to stay away from water. Every late-in-the-season tragedy and act of bloodshed, whether real or …
In its third season, HBO’s award-winning series Succession needs to remember the dramatic stakes that made it great. Watching Succession’s second season, which to my mind is one of the most dexterous and enthralling seasons of television in recent history, was like an immersion in all the different …
For one business professor, the show is a cautionary tale. In Succession, HBO’s dark comedy about the heirs to a family media empire, characters exchange artisanal insults and wear bespoke suits like armor. The ultra-wealthy Roys are constantly at war with their corporate competitors, and with one …
In Succession, the Roys have a lot to celebrate—but very little to feel happy about. This article contains spoilers through the seventh episode of Succession Season 3. Given how this season of Succession has gone so far, the Roy siblings should have reason to celebrate. They held on to control of the …
The only real relationship on Succession is a marriage entirely corrupted by the family business. This article contains spoilers through the sixth episode of Succession Season 3. The marriage between Shiv Roy and Tom Wambsgans is, at this point, built on mutual ambition and cold white wine, and the …
Logan Roy has a UTI. But as the show’s old men decline in health, they grow only more ruthless. This story contains spoilers through the fifth episode of Succession Season 3. Logan was ill. He was the victim of an ailment so common that most people would consider it trivial. But when it gets to Logan, …
In the world of Succession, eloquence is a sign of complicity. Greg, a malapropism incarnate, is the exception that proves the rule. This story contains spoilers through the fourth episode of Succession Season 3. It’s morning in New York, and Greg Hirsch has been summoned to the home of his …
In the HBO show, wealth traps. Its sad, desperate protagonist is the only one with the possibility of escape. This story contains spoilers for the third episode of Succession Season 3. There’s something haunting about the way Jeremy Strong has carried himself when playing Kendall Roy, the apparent …
The Season 3 premiere of the Roy-family saga is as chaotic and luxurious as ever. As Season 3 of Succession begins, the mighty Logan Roy (played by Brian Cox) is in the crosshairs. His son Kendall (Jeremy Strong) has exposed the family patriarch’s involvement in covering up a litany of scandals at …
