Succession is back right where it left off: a high-stakes staredown between Logan and Kendall. scott_tobias recaps the season three premiere
Succession Secession Season 3 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next Photo: HBO The worst chess players tend to be the most aggressive, especially when they’re up against a much better player — which, of course, they invariably are. They will attack and attack, usually settling for an even exchange of pieces — pawn for a pawn, a queen for a queen, sometimes a knight for a bishop, or vice versa — but they never think about where that leaves their position on the board.
Kendall makes one seemingly competent decision to hire Lisa Arthur , a sought-after attorney who appears to admire his whistleblower role enough to represent him over Shiv and his father.
Unsurprisingly, Logan opts to take the most aggressive tack in the end, to “go full fucking beast” rather than the gentler approach of contrition, image management, and culture change that a lawyer like Lisa Arthur might have advised. But he’s not so unaware of his own toxicity as to pretend that he can still be the face of Waystar Royco.
• Roman giving legal advice to his father on Kendall: “This is not a nice thing to say about your son, but maybe you chop him into a million pieces and toss him in the Hudson?”
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