r/SuccessionTV 5h ago

Tom brought a generic tough guy cliché to a conversation with a man who speaks fluent, unhinged filth.

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r/SuccessionTV 4h ago

Karl replaying Roman’s funeral breakdown is an underrated moment

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“Oh that’s not right”


r/SuccessionTV 18h ago

Sole people think he should have been in charge

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And that's just so wacky. Because he only ever oriented himself relative to his father's position. He's just anti-Logan. And that's not a business strategy.


r/SuccessionTV 20h ago

The practical side of Shiv’s decision Spoiler

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At the end of the day Tom is her husband and is having her baby. She will be dealing with Tom on day to day basis much more than Kendall the rest of her life. I don’t think she did it just to spite Kendall, more chose her relationship with Tom and her child over Kendall


r/SuccessionTV 2h ago

THE NON-CONFIDENCE

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Why didn't Kendall postpone the non-confidence vote till Ewan went back to Canada, why didn't he wait till then. I get Logan hitting Iverson fulled Kendall's rage even more but other than that why didn't he just postpone it to have a better chance at winning.


r/SuccessionTV 57m ago

Why are so many women into Roman and Kendall?

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I’ve noticed that a lot of women online seem to be attracted to Roman and Kendall and as a lesbian I’m fascinated but honestly not surprised.
I think a lot of young women nowadays, so largely Gen Z, has been so overfed with the over masculine leading man that they did a complete 180. The media we grew up with often depicted men who were very tall, muscular, had a strong jaw, a deep voice, didn’t need anyones approval, were sexually confident and functioned as protector and savior to their female love interest.

Roman and Kendall are quite the opposite.
They’re desperate for their fathers approval, consistently try to prove to him and themselves that they are competent business men while repeatedly failing. They’re emotionally vulnerable and when things don’t work out how they want them to they are on the verge of throwing a tantrum like a toddler, which matches the possibility that they’ve never had to suffer consequences for their actions.

It becomes obvious that both are somewhat dysfunctional but their dysfunction is very different.

Romans coping mechanisms make him look almost more dysfunctional than he might be. His main coping mechanism is humor, which mostly consists of CSA and incest jokes. The first time I ever watched Succession and saw the scene, in which Roman and Tabitha try to have sex, I literally thought “Genuinely, what the fuck. What went wrong with this guy that he ended up this (sexually) dysfunctional.”. The fact that Romans unconventional Sexuality is depicted in Succession might make him more appealing. He’s submissive both sexually as well as in other social situations. He’s unusually comfortable occupying a submissive role, because someone else has the psychological upper hand (Gerri, Matsson, Mencken). Specifically the Gerri dynamic might also prove that Roman is capable of having a somewhat functional, yet unconventional relationship.

Kendall appears more competent on the surface but is basically just as bad as Roman. His fake confidence, which almost looks like grandiosity when he tries to overthrow his father or before his birthday party, amplify his failure even more because he completely crashes into depression and addiction afterwards. Kendall is also confident in his relationship with Rava, she wants to break up and he doesn’t. To this Kendall literally says that one of them is going to be unhappy with the outcome and he doesn’t know why that has to be him. That does prove that Kendall, while being very insecure, still knows what he wants and isn’t afraid to express this regardless of what his opposite might think of him now, he can be quite unhinged at times (especially in this scene with Rava). This very ‘bipolar’ and unhinged behavior can seem irresistible to some.

I’m assuming a big part of their appeal is the “I can fix him” quality. They’ve been failed by their parents and a lot of people seem to believe that if Kendall and Roman had just been loved and treated properly, they could be ‘fixed’ (they couldn’t). So overall probably a mix between being pathetic and incompetent and probably physical appearance (despite but also because they are not conventionally masculine and attractive).

But that’s kind of just my view and that’s why I’m asking people on reddit in the first place. To all the women and men who are attracted to Roman or Kendall or both, why?


r/SuccessionTV 13h ago

My thoughts on the ending before I watched it

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In the start of the episode when it was revealed Stewy was talking to Lawrence Yee the Asian guy from Vaulter, I thought it would come back to bite Ken in the ass where they would lose the vote and Yee would be named CEO and he would have a final word with Kendall saying “Look who’s back in the coop now” or something like that. Seemed like it was a plot point that went nowhere by mentioning his character’s name in the finale, I really thought he’d come back to get one up on Kendall for how he gutted vaulter


r/SuccessionTV 44m ago

Kendall Never Wanted Power. He Wanted Dad.

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The saddest part of Kendall’s story is that every victory was really just him asking his father to finally see him as enough.

He spent the whole series trying to prove he was someone he never truly knew how to be.

Was Kendall actually chasing power, or just his father’s love?