Shiv Roy has always tried to be one of the boys. This season of Succession is about why she can’t be.
Things do happen. They proceed inevitably when you are a body that can also end up a vessel, an experience that Shiv is feeling all too acutely this season. The transformation of her body in “Church and State,” as her pregnancy becomes public—to her family, yes, but also to her business partner Lukas Matsson, who bluntly views it as a liability—highlights the lack of privacy that such an experience requires.
With one swill of alcohol and an arch tone, Shiv tries to wrest back some control, to show her husband that maybe she can still be in charge.has always been an incredibly cold show, and the women who survive in its world do so largely by playing the men’s game. Shiv is as foul-mouthed as her brothers, almost as crass and uncaring.
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