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Solandge, the yacht used in Succession, costs $1million a week to hire

In last night’s Succession Season 2 finale on HBO, the Roy family and their top Waystar-Royco aides spent time onboard Logan Roy’s luxurious Mediterranean yacht, ostensibly on a brief cruise vacation. However, the Mediterranean cruise was actually intended to give Logan (Brian Cox) the opportunity to take time off to decide who should take the fall to save Waystar-Royco’s tarnished reputation following the company’s mismanagement scandal, and a congressional hearing on the matter.

Logan finally decided that his troubled son Kendall (Jeremy Strong) would be the “blood sacrifice” to save the company.

If you saw last night’s season finale and wondered about the luxurious yacht that provided the setting for the episode, here is everything you need to know about it.

The superyacht in tonight’s episode of Succession Sign up for our newsletter! Get updates on the latest posts and more from Monsters and Critics straight to your inbox. By submitting your information you agree to our T&Cs and Privacy Policy. Length: 85.1 meters Crew: 29 Cost: 1,000,000 euros to rent per week https://t.co/jaPEubbK6m — Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) October 14, 2019

@Succession_HBO is that M/Y Solandge? Used in S2E10? Nice. — Daniel B Nash Sr (@DanielBNashSr1) October 14, 2019

Solandge was the yacht used in the Succession Season 2 finale

The yacht used in last night’s episode of Succession was the famous 85.1-meter Lürssen motor yacht Solandge . Solandge is one of the world’s largest and most iconic luxurious motor superyachts available for charter.

The weekly summer and winter charter price for a Mediterranean cruise is listed as being from €1,000,000 ( currently about $1,102, 642 plus expenses ).

Solandge was first listed for sale in 2015 at an asking price of €179 million. It was finally sold in a deal brokered by the luxury yacht brokerage firm Moran Yacht & Ship in 2017. The deal, said to be the biggest yacht deal of the year in 2017, was reportedly worth €155,000,000.

Solandge was built by Lürssen in 2013. The luxurious granite, marble and wood interior of the yacht was jointly designed by Rodriguez Interiors and Dolker & Voges. The exterior was designed by Espen Øino ( Espen Oeino).

The yacht is able to sleep 12-16 guests in eight large staterooms. It is also able to accommodate a large gathering of overnight party guests in en-suite cabins. Facilities include a sauna, steam room, massage room, beauty salon, gym, sun deck, outdoor swimming pool, dance floor, bar, outdoor cinema, and nightclub.

The boat has a cruising speed of 15 knots and a top speed of 17 knots.

Solange won the Monaco Yacht Club’s La Belle Classe Superyachts award at the 2014 Monaco Yacht Show.

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By Katia Damborsky 29 October 2019

The 279ft (85m) charter yacht SOLANDGE is the yacht in HBO’s Succession. Hitting TV screens in 2019, the season finale of season 2 gives viewers an inside glimpse into life on board the Lurssen luxury yacht in the Mediterranean .

The curtain closed on season 2 of hit HBO show Succession earlier this month, after a dramatic season finale filmed on board SOLANDGE cruising the Mediterranean .

The series gives viewers a peak inside the six-deck superyacht, which can be rented from €1,000,000 (approximately $1,136,000) per week plus expenses.

While the yacht is fictitiously owned by the Roy family in the series, Succession showcases the type of lifestyle you can expect when chartering million-dollar megayachts ; from stylish helicopter departures to zipping between islands on a luxury tender.

The finale of Succession Season 2 is filmed on board superyacht SOLANDGE

Roy family from SUCCESSION on board SOLANDGE yacht during season 2 finale

Succession is an award-winning comedy-drama which centres around the life of the uber-wealthy and highly dysfunctional Roy family.

At the helm of the family is patriarch Logan Roy, a media titan who heads up and controls an international media conglomerate. After his health takes a turn for the worst, his adult children must each face the prospect of becoming heir to the family business.

Rife with power struggles, backstabbing betrayals and family loyalty, Succession offers a fresh take on abuse, media and wealth in contemporary America.

Succession showcases the type of lifestyle you can expect when chartering million-dollar megayachts.

The dramatic end to season 2 of Succession premiered in October 2019, with the finale to Succession filmed on board the motor yacht SOLANDGE.

This glamorous setting gave us plenty of scandal; Logan disingenuously suggesting stepping down as CEO, Connor's iPad getting thrown overboard and of course, the shocking final moments where we see Kendall blowing the whistle on his father.

Roy family sit on the aft decks of superyacht SOLANDGE

How much does it cost to rent the yacht in Succession?

The cost of renting luxury yacht SOLANDGE is upwards of 1 million euros (or 1.136 million dollars) per week plus expenses during both the winter and summer. This price does not include the cost of food, drink, fuel dockage, VAT and tips.

SOLANDGE yacht from HBO TV Series SUCCESSION underway

SOLANDGE features in our article, the world’s most expensive charter yachts which cost over $1 million to rent per week .

What does the yacht from Succession look like inside?

Superyacht SOLANDGE main salon and lit up panels

With her Lurssen pedigree, innovative design and stunning selection of amenities, SOLANDGE is recognised as one of the world’s most iconic superyachts.

She is home to all the facilities you would expect on a yacht of this calibre, including a sleek swimming pool with jet-stream technology and a cutting-edge chromotherapy spa with Hamman and treatment room which both integrate light therapy.

Her main deck plays host to the expansive owners’ suite, which enjoys his and hers en suites with adjoining dressing rooms, a private lounge-cum-office and a private deck area with dip pool and intimate seating areas.

While chartering her, guests can make use out of a fully-stocked wine cellar and an elevator with the capacity for nine.

Inside superyacht SOLANDGE

SOLANDGE features ornate interiors from Florida-based studio Rodriguez Interiors. A palatial theme is reflected in plush fabrics, a rich colour palette and a selection of semi-precious stones, including amethyst, honey onyx, gold leaf and rose quartz.

The design team behind SOLANDGE has also sourced plenty of glass fixtures from Murano, an island near Venice famed for its rich history of glass-making.

Her opulent finish is evident in the main salon, which is flanked by two walls of LED backlit amethyst that imbue the room with a soft lilac glow.

An elaborate focal point, the walls have been created by slicing a piece of amethyst into tiny segments with diamond wire and gluing them to a glass sheet, before then being covered by a panel of Plexiglass studded with LED lights.

Another talking point aboard the charter yacht is the floating central staircase, which features a sculpted ‘Tree of Life’ statue ascending the full height of the yacht.

In total, 1,423 points of light illuminate the space with a warm glow. Themes of nature continue in the owner’s suite, where backlit mullions depict the Garden of Eden.

In total, around 25 wood veneers have been used throughout luxury yacht SOLANDGE. On the lower decks, where there is typically less light, the yacht features darker, ebony finishes; higher up, lighter blondewood and caramel finishes are more prevalent.

This delicate mix of traditional opulence and contemporary punches of colour and texture lend SOLANDGE an atmosphere quite unlike any yacht.

A motor yacht of her calibre makes the perfect backdrop for Succession, and it’s hoped we’ll see SOLANDGE return to reprise her role as the Roy family’s luxury yacht in season 3.

If you’d like to learn more about chartering M/Y SOLANDGE, please get in touch with your preferred yacht charter broker .

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You, Too, Can Charter the ‘Succession’ Yacht…for $1.1 Million a Week

Who owns the ‘Succession’ yacht? Learn more about the ‘Solandge,’ the 279-foot boat the Roy family boarded in the HBO drama’s second season.

Oct. 15 2021, Published 11:29 a.m. ET

Who owns the Succession yacht? Certainly not Succession star Sarah Snook , who told Page Six on Oct. 12, that she has no interest in such an expense. “You own a boat like that, you’ve got to maintain a boat like that,” said Snook, who plays Shiv Roy on the show. “It’s like $12 mil a year or something like that to maintain. Who wants to spend money on that?…Give the money away; no one needs that much money. There’s a ceiling where money makes you happy, and beyond that, it’s just greed.”

Of course, you don’t have to own the 279-foot yacht featured in the HBO drama ’s second season to enjoy its amenities. You can also charter the luxurious vessel , but you’d still need deep pockets.

Who owns the ‘Succession’ yacht?

The Solandge found a new owner in March 2017, after being listed for sale with Moran Yacht & Ship for 155,000,000 euros (about $180 million). However, the identity of the buyer hasn't been revealed.

Actress J. Smith-Cameron, who plays Gerri Kellman on Succession , discussed the boat with BuzzFeed News in Oct. 2019. “I think it’s a Saudi-owned superyacht . I believe the word ‘Solandge’ is made up of the letters of the kids’ and cousins’ names. I think somebody told me that. It may or may not be true. But it seemed like a good choice because it seemed like a parallel universe for the Roy family.”

BOAT International reported that the Solandge sale was the biggest brokerage deal of 2017 at the time. “We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate her new owner and thank her former owner for recognizing our expertise in selling large quality yachts and entrusting us with the sale of Solandge ,” Moran said upon the sale.

How do you rent the ‘Succession’ yacht?

The Solandge is available for charter through Moran Yacht & Ship, but it will set you back. You can charter the vessel for a summer week in the Mediterranean or a winter week in the Caribbean and the Bahamas, but both charters cost 1,000,000 euros per week, or about $1.16 million.

Moran touts that the Solandge is “one of the finest vessels currently available for charter and is one of the world’s largest and most iconic yachts.” The yacht sleeps 12 guests in eight state rooms, with a private owner’s deck and suite. A crew of 29, meanwhile, sleeps in 15 crew cabins. Built in 2013, the Solandge won the "La Belle Classe Superyachts" award from the Monaco Yacht Club at the 2014 Monaco Yacht Show, and the award for the best exterior at the Monaco Yacht Show Awards.

The Solandge ’s top deck features an outdoor cinema and a nightclub, the main deck features an indoor-outdoor gym, and the lower deck features a dive center, a tender garage, and a sauna. The saloon interior, designed by Aileen Rodriguez, boasts a floor-to-ceiling panel of backlit amethyst quartz, a large bar of amethyst-and-honey onyx, and a dining table under an amethyst-and-rose-quartz chandelier. And don’t forget about the onboard beauty salon, swimming pool, jacuzzi, and helipad!

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Let’s Talk About the Yacht Clothes on “Succession”

By Rachel Syme

A still from HBO Succession Season 2 episode 10. Yacht main dining area Logan meets with Roman and his team.

In January, 1973, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times flew to Nice, France, to interview the director Herbert Ross about “The Last of Sheila,” a mystery picture that he was shooting on the Côte d’Azur, much of which took place on a luxurious, hundred-and-sixty-five-foot yacht called H.M.S. Malahne. The gilded ship, which was built in England in 1937 and once helped evacuate soldiers from Dunkirk, became something of a Hollywood fixture in the nineteen-sixties and seventies: it served as the floating production office for “Lawrence of Arabia” in Jordan, was a regular Mediterranean clubhouse for Elizabeth Taylor and Frank Sinatra, and popped up in “The Last of Sheila,” as the watery summer home of a sinister film producer played by James Coburn. (There was a kernel of truth buried in this fiction: at the time of filming, H.M.S. Malahne was the property of a womanizing film producer named Sam Spiegel, who was allegedly so handsy with actresses that Billy Wilder once said that he had “velvet octopus arms.”) Dark things can happen out at sea, when people feel unmoored from both the shoreline and a landlocked sense of morality. “The Last of Sheila,” written by Anthony Perkins and Stephen Sondheim—who used to host infamous mystery parties together in New York—pushes this idea to murderous excess. A group of glamorous strangers (including Raquel Welch, Ian McShane, and Dyan Cannon) set sail, people start dying, and it’s up to the viewer to discover whodunnit. In his Los Angeles Times interview, Ross acknowledged the inherent creepiness of floating stories: “If you have a group of people on a ship,” he said, “the ship becomes a metaphor for existence, you can’t help it. . . . it’s about civilization and barbarism.”

I could not stop thinking about “The Last of Sheila” while watching the Season 2 finale of “Succession,” which traps the Roy family and their closest remora on a superyacht in the Adriatic. Like H.M.S. Malahne, which would look like a dinghy beside the Roys’ “boat” (rich people never say “yacht”), their sea vessel is also the setting for a kind of murder mystery. After a series of scandals involving Waystar Royco’s cruise division (dark things happen at sea!), the company’s board demands a “blood sacrifice,” a scapegoat that they can tie up in litigation while the empire sails on, more or less unscathed. Each person who boards the ship knows that they could end up as the one overboard.

A still from HBO Succession Season 2 episode 10. Croatia beach Tom wondering if he's the fall guy.

And yet they look fabulous. Relaxed. Expensive. Carefree. Cool in Top-Siders and floral maxidresses and gossamer pareos. Like Cannon in “Sheila,” who wore oversized tinted glasses and a circus of colorful caftans and straw hats, even as she was fearing for her life, the Roys, in resort wear, are engaging in high-stakes high fashion, on the high seas.

When I wrote about the fashion on “Succession” earlier this fall, I argued that the Roys are a family of “little pleasure or sparkle,” that, in spite of their money, they are tasteful to a fault, dressing protectively in uniforms of beige cashmere rather than in eccentric couture. I spoke to the show’s costume designer, Michelle Matland, who told me that this was accurate—but that she could not wait for me to see the finale, where we would get to see a different side of the Roy dress code. “I shouldn’t even be telling you this,” she said, at the time. “But they go on a yacht. We get to see them at play.”

Even with this tip-off, the Roys’ maritime peacocking came as a thrilling visual surprise. At last, here was the family in private, dressing only for each other. “Sails out, nails out, bro,” as Kendall instructed Cousin Greg . And while their fashion choices are more adventurous at sea—Tom’s pink linen Ralph Lauren jacket, Shiv’s flowy white Hobbs jumpsuit with an oversized waist sash, Willa’s floral Equipment dress, which she likely bought after seeing it on Kate Middleton—there is still a sense of gloom that seeps through the pastels. I spoke to J. Smith-Cameron, who plays Gerri, Waystar Royco’s general counsel, who did her best Sue Mengers impression in a series of Cynthia Rowley caftans. Smith-Cameron told me that she wanted to look like she was seasick with stress, even in spangles. “We see these people on this plush boat on the Adriatic with delicious food, and there’s a pool and a slide and Jet Skis,” she said. “But everyone is filled with dread. So it was actually meant to be jarring: beautiful surroundings with long faces and furtive glances, not people enjoying themselves. So all of our resort wear is meant to look nice but at the same time be amusingly counter.”

Matland echoed this sentiment. Tom, for example, is coming off his disastrous performance at the congressional hearings on Waystar Royco’s crimes and is “highly agitated,” she said. “His clothing, which was a lot of Ralph Lauren linen suits, is there to belie the fact that he is on the edge of a breakdown. He is constantly trying to look as if he is comfortable—pink linens say honeymoon, vacation, enjoyment—but it is there to cover for the fact that he is unhinged.”

Matland’s goal with the episode was to telegraph the shared anxiety that each character feels while laundering this panic through the resort-wear section of Bergdorf Goodman. Kendall (Jeremy Strong), who quietly slumps around, wears a tiny Paul Stuart trilby hat (Strong’s idea), which Matland says serves as both a security blanket and as a sign that he is feeling deeply insecure. “The hat was crumpled, if you’ll notice,” she said. “It was purposefully imperfect.”

In the final twist, when Kendall turns saboteur, he is back in his city armor: a sharp, fitted Tom Ford suit that almost shines like sharkshin. He sheds the earth tones that he has been wearing all season and dons the color black—a mournful color, but also one that marks him as an assassin, capable of patricide. He’s lost his blingy Oliver Peoples sunglasses, the typical eyewear of rich scions who have a trust fund and personal shoppers who run errands to SoHo; he is at last seeing clearly.

Sunglasses were crucial to this episode, Matland told me, when it came to winking at subtle differences between characters. Shiv, for example, wears traditional Ray-Bans, a sign that she wants to traffic in old-money rituals rather than in flashy ostentation. (“It was significant that she did not wear Gucci or Prada,” Matland said.) Tom’s sunglasses in his much memed chicken-stealing moment , right after he breaks down about his unhappy marriage, are Persol, an old-world Italian brand favored by worldly celebrities, most notably by Anthony Bourdain, who wore his pair all over the globe. His shades are as close to representing rebelliousness as one can get in the Roys’ world. Tom is past his breaking point; he’s having his Brando moment.

A still from HBO Succession Season 2 episode 10. Logan on the top deck.

Logan never lets his guard down, even in the sun—his sun hat is wool, from Walker Slater, a tweedy, posh haberdasher from Scotland. Nor does Roman, who, despite being the most feckless character, may also be the most authentic, in that he almost never changes his costume. “He has a uniform he’s super-comfortable in,” Matland said. “Blue oxford button-ups. Always.”

As for Shiv, most of her boat wear, including her cream pinstripe suits, is Ralph Lauren Purple Label, a sign that she arrived on the ship most prepared for professional ruthlessness. She wants the top job, she’s dressed for it, and she’s willing to throw her husband under the bus for it, save for a rare moment of weakness in front of her father. Her one whimsical touch is an oversized straw hat with a black ribbon, from the Brooklyn brand Lola, which makes her look pampered and pastoral, like an extra from “ Anne of Green Gables .” Even with her sharp, new-ish bob and architectural wardrobe, Shiv is still a spoiled, priggish little girl who throws tantrums if she can’t get her way, and her accessories betray her true nature. (As a side note, Smith-Cameron told me that she was so taken with Shiv’s hat that she went out and bought one for herself after the episode wrapped.)

In “Succession,” no detail is out of place. Like a classic whodunnit, it is the kind of show that begs rewatching, studying, squinting at with a gimlet eye. If you run the finale back, you might wonder when exactly Cousin Greg decided to betray Logan and give Kendall the incriminating documents that he stole. Was it while shirtless and in baggy swim trunks, drinking a mediocre rosé, or was it while he was wearing a navy Lacoste polo on the Roys’ private jet? When Greg first boards the yacht, in a striped French blue sweater and tailored khaki shorts, he looks suspiciously like Tom Ripley, a sleek interloper in the world of luxury who is willing to kill to survive. Perhaps even then Greg was eager to turn traitorous. Matland, who worked on the film “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” understands more than most how to make summer attire appear instantly malevolent. She creates a world of sunny poplins and ivory linens and breathable cottons, but, in the end, we are the ones left holding our breath.

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‘It Hurts, But It Plays’: How ‘Succession’ Executed a Near-Perfect Season 2

By David Fear

You always love the ones you hurt.

History will tell whether Succession is a genuinely great, canon-worthy HBO show or merely the most compelling flaming-Maybach-wreck-in-progress on TV right now. But there are a few things we can more or less agree on. Jesse Armstrong’s lifestyles-of-the-rich-and-toxic drama started slow in Season One and eventually built to a strong finish. Its second season was leagues better, finally discovering the show it wanted to be; it was less a course correction than locating the proper curve of the Roys’ collective instability and leaning in to it. And, now that Round 2 is said and done, this sophomore season may not be remembered primarily for “boar on the floor!,” the L to O.G. rap ( viva Ken.W.A! ), the art-imitates-life-imitates-headlines of the Vaulter dismantling , hyperdecanting, or even an iPad angrily tossed into the sea. It may come down to a single word, uttered with such emphasis you can practically see the italics, in the finale. It ends not with a bang but with a “ But …”.

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Succession kicked off Season 2 with Kendall Roy making a zombified TV appearance, pushed in front of a camera and blankly mouthing soundbites his handlers have provided him, all the better to calm the stockholders. “Dad’s plan was better,” he intoned, almost able to muster a weak smile as a few more ounces of his soul leaked out. It concludes with “Ken Doll” once again staring into a lens, once again given a script to read, once again trying to assure the board that everything is going to be fine. And then, the No. 1 Boy announces that though he’s been picked to be the fall guy, everything from the cover-up of cruise-ship deaths to the corporate malfeasance — it’s all Logan’s fault. For someone who micromanages every aspect of his company, the notion that the patriarch behind it all not be aware of these crimes is ludicrous, Kendall suggests. “My father’s reign ends today,” he says. Dad’s plan, apparently, was not better this time.

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Whether you believe this whole turn of events was part of Logan’s ultimate plan or not, however, depends on just how Machiavellian and omnipotent you think this media titan is. This whole season has revolved largely around the paterfamilias engaging in his favorite pastime, i.e. gathering together his children, their significant others and various key lackeys in a location (a Hungarian hunting lodge, the Roys’ summer home, a pre-celebration toast in Scotland) and letting them tear each other apart. The sheer viciousness of the backbiting, not to mention the choice one-liners — “You can’t make a Tomelette without breaking some Gregs”; the writing team has outdone themselves this season — have kept these Darwinian set pieces from becoming nothing but humiliate, blame, grovel, repeat. In the finale, the battle royale octagon of choice is a yacht in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea; no word on whether they’re anchored in international waters, but Logan’s Law rules regardless.

Everyone knows heads are going to roll after that disastrous hearing, in which numerous folks shat various beds. After a helicopter drops Logan off at the boat, he announces that everyone should have a great time tonight. Tomorrow, they’ll get together “and have a chat” about what happens now. (The fact that judgment regarding who’s going to take the blame for deaths on a cruise ship will be rendered on a gigantic floating playground is a nice touch.) Attempts to go private have failed. The shareholders have already suggested that Logan resigning is the only solution they 100-percent approve of. The next morning, he casually introduces the idea and gets the requisite “no way,” “we need the appearance of stability,” etc. So whose head gets put on the spike?, Logan asks. And then the screaming starts.

The round robin of finger-pointing that follows is fairly predictable. Family members suggest Gerri, Francis and Karl — longtime loyalists but not blood relations. The idea of a bundled sacrifice is floated; maybe Gerri and Tom, “with some Greg sprinkles”? Still not “a big enough skull” for the bloodthirsty board. Each of the Roys, including Connor, put themselves forward as the one to go and then methodically walk their own suggestion back, looking at Dad to make sure he notices their willingness to take the hit. Shiv suggests Tom, which proves to be the final nail in the already hammered-down coffin that is their marriage. (Side note to the couple’s ongoing matrimonial death rattle: We hope the sales of Sally Rooney novels will go through the roof. ) There’s a lot of “I fucking love you, man, but…” preambles before a new sacrificial lamb is prepped for slaughter.

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There’s a part of you, the viewer, that just inherently knows whose head will eventually be on the chopping block — the same one we saw floating, almost disembodied, out of an Icelandic hot spring way back in the season premiere. “It hurts, but it plays,” Logan admits when Shiv mentions the family fuck-up is a prime candidate for a killing. A broken, mumbling man-shaped ruin, Kendall has spent nine episodes wallowing in guilt over accidentally killing a civilian, relapsing, wooing an actress (then thoughtlessly wrecking her career), dismissing his new girlfriend whenever Logan casts a disapproving look and generally skulking about. Season One was about him trying unsuccessfully to grab what he felt was rightfully his, by hook, crook or hostile takeover. Season Two appeared, on the surface, to be about his penance while everybody else took their shot. His siblings played the game of thrones. He opted to sit on the bench.

So when Shiv silently whispers something to Tom after meeting with her father, then pivots toward her brother, we see where this is going. Sorry, lad, says Logan. It’s got to be you. I deserve this, Kendall replies, then asks: But could I have been a good head honcho? Pops hems and haws. Then he focuses his gaze on his son: “You’re not a killer.” Kendall nods. He embraces Dad. Then, one Fredo kiss later, he leaves to fulfill his duties and his destiny. I would fall on my sword for my family. But … .

Which brings us back to Logan’s endgame, and whether, by telling Kendall that he had no killer instinct, he’s inherently gifted him with one. If you go back and view the episode again, knowing where everything is headed, you can see how Armstrong and Co. have laid the groundwork. And should you rewatch what has been a near-perfect second season of a show, which we highly recommend, what strikes you is how everything really does seem to have been leading up to that shot of Kendall staring, Big Brother-like, from a flat screen; that one loaded conjunction; and the tiny smile that curls on Logan’s lips. The past 10 episodes have been an abundance of beautiful bitchery and 1-percent-behaving-badly — not just the “boar on the floor” incident, but the Oedipal dirty talk, the Conn-head memes, every single scene in which Holly Hunter spits venom through a lockjaw grin. They’ve also reminded you that it doesn’t matter whether the Roys are avatars for the Murdochs, the Redstones or our current first family; the rich are unlike you and me, but they are the same type of bastards. Whoever wins, we all lose…including the Roys. (Older shows about the rich and powerful acted as escapism. Never mind the fancy estates and luxury excursions; Succession makes being part of the modern aristocracy look fucking miserable.)

Yet to see that smile break across Logan’s face introduces a whole level of complexity into the second season — the idea that he was not looking for a successor so much as the perfect executioner. He maneuvered Kendall, or perhaps backed him into a corner, to the point where patricide was the only path forward. For a show about legacy, it makes complete sense — and turns this second season from the sum of its gleefully ghoulish parts into one thrilling whole. The No. 1 Boy has become the No. 1 Roy. Whatever happens next, we’ve leveled up to an entirely new category of Prestige TV shitshow.

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Succession Season 2 Episode 10 Review: This Is Not For Tears

Of course it was going to end this way!

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This Succession review contains spoilers.

Succession Season 2, Episode 10

At the end of last week’s “DC,” two things happened that should have immediately clued audiences to what was going to happen in Succession ’s season two finale, “This Is Not For Tears.” First, Kendall Roy (Jeremy Strong) delivered a fiery defense of his father Logan (Brian Cox) and the Waystar Royco brand during his congressional testimony regarding the company’s problematic cruise line and the sexual harassment allegations against its head.

And second? Moments before the closing credits began, Logan told his daughter Shiv (Sarah Snook) that someone from their inner circle had to be sacrificed to the media, the government and their shareholders to finally fix the cruise mess. Not just anyone, though, but a “blood sacrifice.” In other words, one of the series’ preeminent Roy kids — Kendall, Shiv or Roman (Kieran Culkin) — was going to bite the proverbial bullet by the time this season came to a close.

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Of course, it was going to be Kendall. It was always going to be Kendall.

Then again, for all the effort series creator Jesse Armstrong and the Succession writers put into laying the groundwork for Logan’s inevitable decision regarding his own son, they’ve also been planting an entirely different set of crops alongside these initial seeds. Much of the show’s first season was just as much about who Logan was going to pick to succeed him as it was about Kendall’s efforts to oust his father in a hostile takeover.

And though the vehicular manslaughter he caused at the end of season one, and Logan’s engineered coverup of it in the second season premiere ultimately tanked these efforts, Kendall never really could have forgotten what his original intentions were. Sure, much of this season has been about portraying Kendall’s transformation into a soulless shell of a human being who is more than willing to do anything his father tells him . But does this mindless devotion extend to self-flagellation on such a massive scale? Yes and no.

Logan and the aforementioned Roy kids, along with eldest son Connor (Alan Ruck), cousin Greg (Nicholas Braun), Shiv’s cuckold husband Tom (Matthew Macfadyen) and the rest of the Waystar Royco legal and public relations teams meet off-and-on aboard the family’s massive yacht in the Mediterranean to discuss options. Many, including the always-willing-to-speak Roman, think Greg and Tom — who actually did try to cover up the cruise scandal (under orders, of course) and totally botched their respective congressional testimonies — should take the hit. It’s “half an idea” per Logan’s estimation, but he and almost everyone else there know it’s not enough. Especially Shiv, who goes to her father amid a brewing personal crisis with Tom to make sure he knows this.

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“Why not what he discussed?” she reminds him. “Ken hurts,” her father admits in turn. “He was across the whole thing. It hurts. It plays, obviously.”

So, when Logan finally tells Kendall — albeit in a roundabout way, at first — of his decision to lay the blame on him, it actually does seem to hurt the otherwise emotionally distant Roy patriarch. The camera even goes in and out of focus on occasion, becoming blurry and clear again, almost as if a tear or two are breaking the episode title’s explicit rule against mournful emotions.

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“It’s okay dad,” Kendall tells his father once he realizes what’s happening. “It’s okay.”

“Thank you, son,” Logan responds. “The hearings, you did so well. But now you’re the face. You were across the cleanup. The optics make sense. And, what’s more, I trust you. I trust you in case it turns and gets nasty.”

Like with the dissolution of the digital media company Vaulter in this season’s second episode, along with plenty of other examples, Kendall immediately agrees with his father’s decision and goes along with it, though he does ask him if he ever thought he could do it. If he ever thought he was good enough to succeed him and lead Waystar Royco into the future. “You’re not a killer,” Logan tells him. And that’s the moment when those who have been paying complete attention to Kendall’s scheming, its implosion and his continuously downward spiral should have known what would happen in the episode’s final moments. Yes, he goes before the press to supposedly admit his wrongdoing regarding the cruise scandal. After all, is father is watching. Instead, Kendall plunges the dagger meant for himself into Logan, Waystar Royco and pretty much everyone else we could consider his flesh and blood.

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“I have been asked to explain my own role in the managing of illegality at the firm and associated coverups, and it has been suggested I would be a suitable figure to absorb the anger and concern,” he begins before going off-script. “But the truth is, my father is a malignant presence, a bully and a liar. He was fully personally aware of these events for many years and made efforts to hide and cover-up. He had a twisted sense of loyalty to bad actors like Lester McClintock.”

“This is the day his reign ends,” Kendall concludes as the room erupts in a flurry of shouted questions from the gathered press.

Cue Succession ’s Emmy Award-winning theme music and an amazingly calm Logan, watching the press conference aboard his yacht with a bewildered Shiv and Roman. They cannot believe what they’re watching, but according to the slow smile spreading across Logan’s face, it’s not all that fanciful. It turns out, he was completely wrong about Kendall. He is a killer.

Succession airs on HBO.

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This Is Not for Tears

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On the Roys' grand Mediterranean yacht, Logan weighs whether a member of the family, or a top lieutenant, will need to be sacrificed to salvage the company's tarnished reputation. Roman shares his hesitations about a new source of financing, as Kendall suggests a familiar alternative. Shiv proposes taking her open marriage with Tom to another level. [1]

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Greg takes the stand

Greg is called to testify before Congress regarding the sexual misconduct on Waystar's cruise-lines . He fumbles his way through the testimony, seemingly nervous in front of Senator Gil Eavis . In the car, Logan watches the testimony with Hugo as they discuss who will be the scapegoat following the scandal. Logan then receives a call from a high-profile shareholder of Waystar's, who suggests that Logan take responsibility for the crimes.

Following the testimony, the Roys decide to vacation on their yacht. Connor and Willa , who is upset that her play has been panned by critics, are first to arrive. Shiv arrives with Tom and suggests that the two of them to have a threesome with a female yacht employee, though Tom is clearly uncomfortable with the idea. Tom sees that Gerri and Frank have followed them on board, and starts to think that this may be more than a "family holiday." Kendall soon arrives with Greg and girlfriend Naomi Pierce .

Connor and Willa are scrolling through the reviews of her play when Willa, frustrated upon seeing that they're mostly very negative, tosses Connor's tablet into the sea. Roman , Karl , and Laird arrive via helicopter, after returning from Turkey where they had been held for being potentially dangerous foreigners. The men seem a bit shaken up, but Laird says that Roman did good in terms of handling the deal, and that Asgarov will allow them to go private. Laird reminds the others of the consequences of Waystar remaining public, and leaves the yacht so that they may discuss amongst themselves. Connor then asks Logan for money, admitting that his campaign is robbing him and he can't cover the loss of Willa's play. Logan agrees, so long as Connor suspend his presidential campaign. Logan then asks Kendall to make Naomi leave, claiming that she enables his drug abuse. Naomi is disappointed that Kendall won't leave with her, but complies.

Logan is disappointed to wake up to no sign of Marcia , as he was hoping she'd join them on the yacht. At breakfast, Logan nonchalantly offers himself as the scapegoat, but the others deny and begin debating other options, relieving Logan. Ken suggests Gerri, Roman suggests Frank, and Frank suggests Karl. Karl suggests Gerri as well, but Roman defends her, saying that Tom is the logical choice due to his previous involvement with the cruise-line. Roman also adds that Greg could be sacrificed as well. Several others, including Shiv, agree that Tom is the most viable option, although Kendall adds that he might not be "big enough". Connor volunteers, asking for cash in return, which amuses Logan and he thanks Connor for the gesture. Logan then leaves to reflect, before he and Kendall travel to a Greek island in attempt to enlist financial aid from Stewy , who denies them. [Notes 1]

While relaxing on a beach, Tom confesses to Shiv that he is unhappy in their marriage. He confesses that he's not sure it was ever a good idea, but wishes to salvage it. Shiv, taken aback but feeling guilty, wishes to salvage it as well. Back at the yacht, Tom eats some of Logan's food in front of him, just to spite him. Shiv then goes to speak with her father. She does not initially reveal her intentions of speaking to him, but soon begins begging him not to get rid of Tom. Shiv is then asked to choose between her husband and her brother Kendall, and although pained by it, motions for Kendall to speak with their father.

Logan breaks the news to Kendall

Logan informs Kendall that he will be the blood sacrifice. Kendall suggests that he deserves punishment for what happened to Andrew Dodds , which Logan dismisses as a case of "No Real Person Involved", but not this. [Notes 2] Kendall, disappointed, asks if he was ever considered for the position of CEO. Logan admits that he wasn't, saying "You're not a killer. You have to be a killer." Kendall kisses Logan on the cheek and the two leave to inform the others of the decision. [Notes 3] Roman is appointed to COO and Frank will be responsible for cleanup.

Logan hearing Kendall's speech

The next morning, Kendall and Greg leave for a press conference back in New York, Jess and Karolina joining them upon arrival. Logan watches the conference from the yacht, Shiv by his side. Kendall, in front of the press, begins to explain his role as scapegoat, but suddenly deviates and begins blaming Logan. He states that his father is a "malignant presence, a bully, and a liar" and has been aware of the events for many years but made efforts to cover them up. Additionally, he informs the reporters that he has brought documents proving his father's guilt, which Greg seemingly has on hand. The speech shocks the reporters, Karolina, and the rest of the Roy family except for Logan, who bears a faint smile.

↑ Logan offers Stewy three board seats, including Kendall's, and a say in their next appointment of CEO.
↑ NRPI is likely based on the real-world phrase "No Human Involved", which is most often used by police officers to describe crimes involving victims of color, female victims who are sex workers, and drug addicts. In Andrew Dodds' case, Logan dehumanizes him due to his drug problems.
↑ Although Logan doesn't know it yet, he has received the "kiss of Judas" (or "kiss of death") from Kendall, forewarning betrayal.
Tom Wambsgans [to Shiv Roy]: I think a lot of the time, I'm really pretty unhappy. I wonder if the sad I'd be without you would be less than the sad I get from being with you.
Kendall Roy: The truth is that my father is a malignant presence, a bully, and a liar, and he was fully personally aware of these events for many years and made efforts to hide and cover up. He had a twisted sense of loyalty to bad actors like Lester McClintock. And a disregard for the safety of migrant workers, non-union and union workers, and for vulnerable performers and guests. My father keeps a watchful eye over every inch of his whole empire, and the notion that he would have allowed millions of dollars in settlements and compensation to be paid without his explicit approval is utterly fanciful.
Armstrong stated that he chose to play the Roy family on a yacht because of the history surrounding real-life media moguls, such as Robert Maxwell, having important family meetings on yachts. Mark Mylod noted that the yacht also, given the context, played on the metaphor of "throwing someone overboard." [6]
The episode was nominated for several Primetime Emmy, Primetime Creative Arts Emmy, and Directors Guild of America Awards. [7] [8] Jeremy Strong [9] , Nicholas Braun [10] , and Matthew Macfadyen [11] all submitted the episode to support their nominations.

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↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Succession Ep 10: This Is Not for Tears | Official Website for the HBO Series | HBO.com
↑ Shows A-Z - succession on hbo | TheFutonCritic.com
↑ 3.0 3.1 Succession : Season 2 , Episode 10: " This Is Not for Tears "
↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Succession | Official Website for the HBO Series | HBO.com
↑ ‘Succession’ Showrunner Talks Season 2 Finale Twist – The Hollywood Reporter
↑ 2020 Emmy Nominations: Nominees For 72nd Annual Awards – Deadline
↑ DGA Announces 2019 Awards Nominees for: Dramatic Series; Comedy Series; and Variety/Talk/News/Sports (dga.org)
↑ Jeremy Strong (‘Succession’): Emmys 2020 episode submission revealed - GoldDerby
↑ Nicholas Braun (‘Succession’): Emmys 2020 episode submission revealed - GoldDerby
↑ Matthew Macfadyen (‘Succession’): Emmys 2020 episode submission - GoldDerby
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Succession Season 2 Finale Recap: Who Did Logan Throw Overboard?

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Succession ‘s Roy family wrapped up Season 2 by hashing out their issues aboard a luxury yacht… and one key character went down with the ship.

Sunday’s finale starts back in D.C., with a bewildered Cousin Greg withering under the glaring spotlight of a tough Congressional inquiry, while Logan takes a call from a big-time shareholder, warning him that someone needs to take the fall for the cruise ship scandal… and “we feel that probably it should be you.” Logan doesn’t love that idea, of course, and gathers his brood in Venice for a stay aboard his decadent mega-yacht. (It’s almost like a Below Deck Med crossover episode.) There’s plenty of drama afoot: Willa’s play got hammered by bad reviews, Kendall brought Naomi Pierce along… and Tom is very flustered about Shiv planning a threesome with him and an old female friend.

Logan is a bit shellshocked when confiding in Kendall, but he says no to bringing in Stewie again, and the mood is grim. (Even Tom knows there’s going to be “a head on a spike.”) Connor comes begging to Logan for one of his newspapers to cook up some good reviews for Willa’s play… and oh, a loan of “a little hundred mill” (!). Logan says yes — but only if he gives up his silly presidential bid. Then he invites everyone to drink up tonight… because tomorrow, they’ll have to come up with a plan together. Roman gleefully starts taking bets on who’s getting canned, and Logan raises some alarms about Naomi joining Kendall on the boat. “I just don’t want you f–ked on drugs,” he bluntly tells his son, and a compliant Kendall sends her away the next morning. Plus, Tom finds a way to ruin the threesome before it even starts, concluding he’s just not feeling that “naughty.” (Not a shock, to be honest.)

Kendall thinks Tom isn’t a big enough skull, though, and Roman recommends they spice his sacrifice up with “some Greg sprinkles.” (Greg: “I object.” Roman: “Who cares?”) Connor volunteers himself, in hopes of grabbing a golden parachute, but Logan walks away from the table, thinking they have “half an idea” and they’ll finish up later. He and Kendall take an emergency meeting with Stewy, offering to accept the hostile takeover on certain terms… but Stewy flatly says no. He shrugs off Kendall’s anger, thinking he and Sandy have the shareholders on their side. Meanwhile, Shiv and Tom share a private beachside picnic, and Tom fumes about how she threw him under the bus — and how she sprung an open marriage on him on their wedding night. (“I am not a hippie!”) He confesses he’s been “pretty unhappy” with her, and works up the nerve to talk to Shiv’s dad. Actually, though, he just sits down next to Logan and takes an awkward bite of his chicken before fleeing.

Shiv huddles with Logan, and he promises if Tom is the victim, “I’ll take care of him.” Then he drops a bombshell: “Ken works… it hurts.” But “it plays,” too, he thinks. He turns to his daughter and asks her what she thinks, noting that this is a job for a future CEO. Shiv hesitates, but then tells her dad: “Just not Tom… Please. For me.” Later, she calls in Kendall to see Logan… and Kendall sees the writing on the wall. Logan says Tom and Greg won’t work, and the shareholders won’t accept him stepping down himself. (Which is a lie, but anyway.) An ashen-faced Kendall assures him it’s OK, as Logan prepares him to confess: He knew everything about the cruise troubles, and will take the fall.

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Just add in the slow burning grin by Logan as he watches his favorite son Kendall throwing his bastard Father to the wolves, the realization that he raised Kendall to be the heir to his throne. Logan knew all along he had to be the one, and what a way to go.

What a finale! This is the best show on TV and best thing on air since Mad Men… this episode showed why. I cannot wait until next year to see how it plays out.

Kendall gave his dad a Judas kiss at the end of their meeting. A tip-off. Tom wondering if he would be less unhappy without Shiv as opposed to how unhappy he is with her was genuinely moving.

Sheesh what a finale. Maybe it was just me but it looked like Logan was proud of how that played out. I’ve been saying all season that Kendall is a killer and he showed it.

Exactly what I said. He told him he wasn’t a killer, Kendall proved him wrong… or perhaps, Logan knew this was going to happen?

Logan setting his kid up for success

Kendall has been a lion in the tall grass all season.

That was amazing! Amazing! I can’t wait for next season

This show is one of my favorites and it just gets better and better! I can’t wait for next season!

Watching Kendall accepting to be the “sacrifice” had me in tears, however, his father taught him one more lesson when he said:”you’re not a killer”. Kendall showed dad!! In fact, I think Logan was proud of his son for the first time!!

That little smile playing on Logan’s lips in the last scene says it all. He set the whole thing up to save his baby…the company. He started hatching the plan the minute he got the “hard phone call” from the biggest shareholder. Can’t wait for next season.

That was one of the best episodes of television that I have ever seen.

I watched the episode twice tonight. When Kendall was seeing Naomi off at the speedboat she said something to Kendall that made him stare into space. I could not decipher what she said about how Logan loved Kendall. Anybody know?

She said Logan loves the broken Kendall, and Kendall looked absolutely stricken when she said that.

WOW! WOW! WOW! Truly the best show on television. I was blown away by the finale. Can’t wait for season 3.

So Id like opinions here, was this Logans master plan all along? The family manipulation is evil, but did he craft Kendall the entire time? Telling him he is not a killer, knowing that would challenge him? Telling him prior to that his current girlfriend was a part of his drug problem? Evil genius?

I know some people think Logan wanted Ken to do this all along, but I don’t think so. Why would he put himself through the public humiliation of his son’s betrayal, when he could have stepped down and satisfied the shareholders that way? I know he’s constantly testing his children, and I do believe he was actually a little proud of how hard Kendall punched back, but I truly don’t think he expected Kendall to throw him under the bus and then back over it

He maybe thought exposing himself would be a sign of weakness, like only someone with strong morals and real consciense is capable of admitting that he did wrong, of showing regret. It is showing that one is human, has weaknesses and is capable of changeing for the better, of apologizing. I think he has a reputation to maintain as someone cold, calculating, an old school businessman, a KILLER. And killers dont admit they have done something wrong. They refuse to give up power and control. They prefer to make it seem like they have been betrayed…I think it was all calculated from the moment on he received THE phone call..He is a master of manipulation. He knows exactly which buttons to push when it comes down to his children…telling Ken hes not a killer was a deliberate provocation…and it was a win-win for him and Ken…that way Ken gained back his dignity and his much needed self confidence…his power…it was almost a gift to Ken…and I think Ken will be CEO…I think it has always been Ken…just my humble opinion…another point of view.

Would not surprise me if Jesse Armstrong wins another Emmy next year for writing for this episode

I absolutely knew that this was going to happen. I think that Logan and Kendal manufactured this to make Logan the sacrificial lamb and get Kendall the top job, identifying him as a herl

I agree with you, I think it was Logans final master move. It was no coincidence. Hes so intelligent it scares me.

I just wish the kids would all talk like humans, particularly Kendall and Shiv who both appear to be androids. I don’t think they even blink, has anyone seen them blink?.

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Why Season 2 of Succession Was So Extraordinary

The HBO show had teased a “blood sacrifice” in its thrilling season finale, and it didn’t disappoint.

This article contains spoilers through the finale of Succession Season 2 .

Water is never a good omen on Succession . In the Season 1 episode “Austerlitz,” the ill-fated infinity pool in the New Mexico desert led to a tweedy psychotherapist losing his front teeth; at the close of the episode, as Logan Roy (played by Brian Cox) swam a few laps, viewers were able to see for a moment the scars that cover his back. In the Season 1 finale, “Nobody Is Ever Missing,” a chipper cater-waiter trying to facilitate a drug buy for Kendall (Jeremy Strong) drowned in a lake on the way back to Shiv’s wedding. And in “This Is Not for Tears,” last night’s conclusion to the show’s superlative second season, the Roy family and its associates basked in the azure incandescence of the Mediterranean before being led, one by one, to try on the metaphorical noose Logan was readying for a scapegoat.

Harbingers aside, “This Is Not for Tears” was, thanks to its aquatic setting, the most gorgeous episode Succession has had to date. Directed by Mark Mylod ( Game of Thrones ), it had the visual poetry and the psychosexual familial tension of a late Bertolucci movie, or one by Luca Guadagnino. A disconsolate Roman (Kieran Culkin) lounged in a blue linen shirt against a pile of turquoise pillows. Shiv (Sarah Snook) insulated herself from the sun with a giant straw hat and a pair of aviators. Kendall floated on his back in the yacht’s plunge pool, shot from overhead to contrast against the darker blue ocean. His bobbing body, with arms splayed, looked for a moment like a corpse, or like Christ on the cross. In retrospect, it makes sense— Succession has been readying him to be the sacrificial lamb since he was dragged, dripping, from the Icelandic rehab center’s pool at the beginning of the season.

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Succession is a show about business empires, and about family, and especially about the peculiar toxicity and dysfunction that occur when the two intersect. Since the show debuted, it has presented a question: Which one of these three children (with apologies to Connor, but let’s be real) will inherit Logan’s kingdom? But there are also other kinds of bequests in the ether, as the scars on Logan’s back—paid forward as psychological wounds to his children and grandchildren—made clear. And so the question gets an extra dimension: Which of his children is Logan’s emotional heir, hungry and empty enough inside to meet his standards for an acceptable successor?

In Season 1, the obvious candidate was Kendall, with his Forbes covers, his desperate need to prove himself, and his multiple boardroom-coup efforts against his father. “I’m just concerned you might be soft,” Logan told Kendall early on, noting that business was essentially “a big-dick competition”; his son, cosseted by luxury his entire life, couldn’t measure up. “The only way he’ll respect you is if you try to destroy him,” Roman told Kendall midway through the first season. “Because, in your position, that is exactly what he’d try to do.” That same episode, a frustrated Logan physically lashed out at Kendall’s son, as if to remind Kendall that aspiring to be more like his father would come with obvious costs. In the end, Kendall’s own frailty gave his father a winning hand, and led to Kendall trudging wearily in Logan’s wake for most of Season 2.

At the same time, Shiv’s stock was rising. There’s no doubt at this point that Shiv is the Roy child most closely akin to her father—the most ambitious sibling, the most manipulative, and the least troubled by the little things, like empathy or guilt. (“This class-war shit—don’t you find it a little jejune?” is up there with “Let them eat cake” as a succinct encapsulation of personal callousness.) “My philosophy is, I literally don’t give a fuck,” Shiv told Nate (Ashley Zukerman) in bed while he was browsing his wedding registry; the personal motto applies to table napkins and china patterns, but also to the world at large. In Season 1, Shiv conspired with a senator who wanted to burn her father’s news empire to the ground. In Season 2, as Logan dangled the throne in front of her like a cat toy, Shiv was made newly vulnerable by the prospect of getting something she actually really wanted. Initially thrown off course, she was back at Logan’s side by “Dundee.” There, Shiv set up Rhea (Holly Hunter) to fail in a way that would facilitate Shiv’s path to the top job, and sweet-talked a woman victimized by Waystar into backing down.

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Last night, on board the Roy yacht, a craft as sharp and black as a kitchen knife, Logan let his children and consiglieres fight it out to see which one should suffer the sins of the company. It was a classic Roy reunion—there were no actual shouts of “Boar on the floor,” but the internecine conflicts and poisonous power struggles were the same. Roman, newly chastened by his brush with political kidnapping, couldn’t begin to compete: Having recently pleaded with his siblings to “talk to each other? Normally?” and opened up about how frightened he was in Turkey, he was far too tenderhearted to do more than defend Gerri (J. Smith-Cameron) and implicate Tom. Shiv, Tom’s own wife, agreed that Tom was a logical choice, leading him to lambaste her as they lay sunbathing in a private cove. “If I think about it, a lot of the time I’m pretty unhappy,” Tom said. “I wonder if the sad I’d be without you would be less than the sad I get from being with you.”

That equation, when applied to Logan, has always seemed simple. When Kendall was offered half a billion dollars by Stewy (Arian Moayed) for his Waystar stock in Season 1, I yearned for him to just take it and escape this life, these people. Naomi Pierce (Annabelle Dexter-Jones), as she was evicted off Logan’s yacht last night, similarly asked Kendall to come with her and abandon the life he’d been piecing together so carefully that he couldn’t see its cracks. But Kendall stayed, and as the episode proceeded, it became more and more obvious that he was being readied for slaughter. Shiv, who only episodes ago had been momentarily stunned by the sight of her broken brother weeping, told her father to save Tom and sacrifice Kendall—further anointing herself as Logan’s true successor. Logan, cheered by a family member bold enough to go right for the heart, agreed. “It hurts,” he told Shiv, “but it plays.”

That the backstabbing and betrayal played out against such an idyllic backdrop seemed fitting. One of the things that have made Season 2 of Succession so strong is its constant shift in locations—a mountain resort for billionaires here, a Hungarian hunting ground there. At home, the family members find comfort in familiar settings and coping mechanisms: the boardroom for Logan, politics for Shiv, irony for Roman, drugs for Kendall. But in new spaces, they’re forced into closer proximity with one another while their armor is taken away, making their damage harder to disguise. These are the kinds of situational setups that lead to riveting television, but also to glimpses of the characters as vulnerable human beings rather than comic archetypes. Tom, for example, is infinitely more compelling when he’s baring his soul to his wife than he is embracing plutocracy by eating songbirds and actual gold.

And Kendall, tragic prince that he is, has always been Succession ’s heart. Having clung to the fragments of his father he could hero-worship for much of Season 2, Kendall was spurred by Logan’s betrayal to save himself. He gave his father a Corleone kiss. He agreed to take the fall. And then he turned on Logan in a stunning press conference volte-face, armed with Greg’s Chekhovian cruise documents and his own legitimate anger. “The truth is that my father is a malignant presence, a bully and a liar,” he said. My colleague Megan Garber has written about pestilence on Succession and how, despite themselves, the Roys can’t escape the symbolic manifestations of the corruption they sow in the world. In calling out his father as a cancer, Kendall was taking the first steps toward recovery. It was the closest thing to a happy ending anyone could have expected Succession to offer.

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Our favorite dysfunctional billionaires are back! Succession season 3 kicked off on October 17, but before you click play on those fresh-from-the-oven episodes, let's catch up with the Roys and everything that happened in that drama-filled Succession season 2 finale, which aired a whopping two years ago due to COVID-related delays.

Could you believe what Kendall did during that press conference? Or how bumbling Cousin Greg has turned into a veritable power player? What do you think is going to happen with Tom and Shiv's marriage?

From the core Roys to the schemers that encircle them, here's a complete refresher on how did season 2 of Succession end, just in time for new episodes to hit HBO Max .

*Warning: It goes without saying but there are major spoilers ahead, people!*

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'Succession' season 2 finale: What went down?

Season two of Succession simultaneously dealt both with the rise of Logan Roy's successor—would it be Kendall, Siobhan, Roman or, LOL, Connor?—and with the potential downfall of the media empire that he ruthlessly built over the years, as rumor has it that the company's cruise ship division has been acting as a major cover-up for serious crimes, including murder and sexual assault.

The Succession season 2 finale, entitled "This is Not for Tears," finds the Roy family and its Waystar Royco cohorts on a—what else?—luxury yacht strategizing which member of the clan would be offered up as a "blood sacrifice" to take the fall for the cruise scandal ahead of the shareholders' meeting.

Would it be Logan himself, like the investors suggest? Unlikely. How about Tom, Shiv's husband and the head of Waystar Royco’s amusement park and cruise division, with "some Greg sprinkles"? Maybe Roman, who's "widely known as a terrible person"?

In the end, they decide on middle son Kendall Roy, who had already spent the better part of season two acting as his dad's punching bag. According to the plan, Kendall would take the blame for the cruise division crisis and announce his resignation from Waystar Royco during a news conference. Instead, Kendall pulls a total 180 and publicly betrays his father, revealing to the press that he has hard evidence—remember those damning documents that Cousin Greg filched before Tom could destroy them?—that Logan not only knew about the criminal cruise cover-ups, but he personally signed off on them.

"The truth is that my father is a malignant presence, a bully and a liar...this is the day his reign ends," Kendall tells the press, ripping up the pre-approved statement Logan wanted him to read, as the rest of the Roy dynasty watches the televised report in shock. The final shot of Succession season 2? A close-up of Logan Roy with a hint of a Mona Lisa smile on his face, whether out of being stunned or impressed, we don't know.

Backstabbing, boardroom drama, big-ass boats—what more could you want from a Succession finale? You'll have to watch season three to find out how that epic cliffhanger plays out.

Succession airs Sunday nights at 9pm ET/PT on HBO and HBO Max in the US, and on Monday nights at 9pm on Sky Atlantic in the UK.

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There are many things that will be missed now that HBO’s Succession has wrapped up its masterful second season: super-rich people telling each other to “fuck off,” the shenanigans of Tom and Cousin Greg(ory), Roman and Gerri’s interesting dynamic, Kendall’s sad eyes. But I’ll especially miss Shiv’s phenomenal fashion.

The only daughter in the Roy clan had a serious sartorial glow-up in season two, and the Internet loved every second—to the point that there will surely be an uptick in turtleneck and high-waist pants this fall. (See our ranking of her best outfits here .) Coupled with a perfect bob haircut and a renewed desire to get back into the family business, Shiv was all about power moves this season. And as the family took to their massive yacht in the finale, Shiv’s vacation outfits did not disappoint.

If you thought Shiv would abandon her signature style just because she was headed to warmer climates, you’d be very wrong. My personal favorite was the creamy white high-waist number that was such perfect “rich lady on a gazillion-dollar ship.” Or maybe the blue halter look.

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She also worked in some floral prints and a large sun hat. “Shiv Roy in boat clothes! #Succession,” one fan tweeted.

Social media was very much here for all of her outfits, really. “Shiv’s white outfit, I need it. #SuccessionHBO,” one person wrote. “Every outfit Shiv wears, I want it. I want the entire LOOK! Sarah is BAD!!!!!!! #SuccessionHBO,” another said. This tweet sums up the general sentiment: “Fuuuuuuck, the Succession finale was so good. Also I want every one of Shiv’s outfits in this episode, her styling was fantastic.”

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Well, the Succession Season 2 Finale Exceeded Expectations

How the best and buzziest show on television is avoiding the game of thrones trap..

For a prestige TV season finale, there’s nothing harder to clear than high expectations. But Succession finished up its sterling second season as the best and buzziest show on television—maybe there’s some juice left in the whole, Paleolithic air-one-episode-a-week method— with an ending that was as satisfying as it was unexpected. At the end of Succession Season 2, the Roys gathered on a yacht larger than an apartment complex, kicked off their shoes, and took a few joyrides down a giant inflatable slide, all a decadent warmup for shanking one another in the front—only for the episode to end with a gloriously placed knife in the back.

The season-long pressure on Waystar-Royco came to a head in last week’s congressional hearings, when it became apparent that some kind of “blood sacrifice” would be necessary in order for the family to convey to the public and the shareholders that the Roys understood the extent of their corporate malfeasance. (Even though they don’t really.) This week, the family and their apparatchiks meet in a ludicrously outsize pleasure boat to feign relaxation as they putter around the Mediterranean sipping Burgundy and Champagne while scheming about who should take the fall. As culture editor Adam Sternbergh noted on Twitter , it was an Agatha Christie setup where no one dies, but everyone wants to be a murderer.

The pretend vacation culminates in a bravura scene at the breakfast table that’s a traffic jam worth rubbernecking: Everyone gets tossed under the bus. Everyone gets something delicious to do and say—“Greg Sprinkles”—even as the sequence makes a joke of everything they are doing and saying: The conversation is a farce. None of the blood Roys are ever seriously considered for sacrifice. Logan Roy (Brian Cox) begins the conversation by “suggesting” it should be him who takes the blame, which no one can do more than half-heartedly pooh-pooh, because it’s a half-hearted suggestion.* Instead, as in all meetings with Logan Roy, everyone is triangulating. The non-family members of the team run one another down first, but none of them are bold enough to point fingers at actual Roys. Pathetic Connor (Alan Ruck) offers to sacrifice himself but has no takers. The group ultimately gangs up on heinous buffoon Tom Wambsgans (Matthew Macfadyen), who is almost family, but not quite family, as his wife, Shiv (Sarah Snook), notes, and so is the perfect consensus fall guy, even to Shiv. To protect himself, Tom will later eat a piece of Logan’s chicken, a territory-pissing announcement of his unhinged nature that Logan sees as some gauche breach of decorum—way weirder and worse than, you know, gathering people in paradise for a show trial.

There’s always been the dangerous possibility that Succession could fall into a kind of Game of Thrones trap, where the audience becomes fixated on who will “win” the throne. But creator Jesse Armstrong and his staff have made assiduously clear that the Waystar-Royco “throne” is a porcelain crapper. Every single person on the show would be better off if they walked away, and their inability to do so is a moral indictment of them and the crusty pull of obscene wealth and power.

Though she went into Season 2 as the crowd favorite, one of this season’s major storylines has been the degradation of Shiv for exactly this reason: She keeps walking closer. Formerly the sane-ish, decent-ish Roy, she flushed her strategic skills and vague vestige of morality down the toilet by reversing her lifelong course of distancing herself from her father. After committing a series of strategic errors because she wanted Logan’s public approval (in the shape of the CEO chair) so desperately, she also tampered with a witness because—best-case scenario—she delusionally believed in her own future power. She ended the season by betraying her brother Kendall, and being so cruel to her husband that she made him—the deranged gas bag Tom, the guy who uses other people as a footstool—look emotionally sensitive. He’s “not a hippie” looking for three-ways with his wife and, you know, it is pretty janky to spring an open marriage as a fait accompli on your wedding night. At least he loves her. Maybe Season 3 will be Shiv’s redemption arc.

Meanwhile, Roman (Kieran Culkin), the adolescent cutup, finally stops being a smart aleck and tries being grown. He tells his dad the truth about a questionable deal. He asks his siblings if they could have a normal adult relationship. (They make funny voices in response, because, no, they can’t.) Like Shiv, he doesn’t want to announce his emotional affiliations to anyone, but unlike Shiv, he’s willing to stand up for the people he cares about: Gerri, who he romantically defends during the breakfast table scene, and then Kendall, in a moment that is the flip side of the brotherly bond we saw when Kendall instinctively defended Roman after Logan smacked him in the face a few episodes back. Roman’s now COO of a company that the Roys probably won’t hold onto for much longer, but, hey, kid brother came a long way.

And then there’s Kendall (Jeremy Strong). The finale is a kind of mirror image of last season’s: Both orbit around Kendall’s rapidly reversing fortunes. In the previous finale, Kendall accidentally killed a man just as he was about to take the company from his father. Logan pounced on this horrible accident as a strategic advantage. Kendall’s decision to act for himself went so badly, resulted in such tragedy, that he seemed to decide to stop doing it. For this entire season, at times tearful, at times suicidal, at times bed-crapping, Kendall has let go and let Logan run him. He has been his father’s mercenary, his unfeeling lieutenant, slicing and dicing Vaulter, screaming at whoever needs to hear it in the back of the plane, and crushing at the congressional hearings. He’s a person who no longer makes decisions of his own. He’s Logan’s killer.

But in the waning minutes of the finale, the use of that actual term “killer” seems to jolt Kendall out of his season-long stupor. (Or maybe it was before: When Kendall actually turned against Logan is a good one to chew over in the off-season.) Logan explains to Kendall that he has to be the blood sacrifice. Kendall is gracious. He accepts it. He gives his father a Fredo kiss. And then he asks: Did you ever think I really could have run this company? Logan hems and haws, but then says, no, because to do so “you have to be a killer.” Logan is speaking metaphorically, but Kendall is a killer, and it has been haunting him for months. That’s instantly where his mind goes: Maybe being the blood sacrifice is what he deserves, he says, for the accident. Logan reassures him that’s not true: The guy he killed, he wasn’t even a “real person.”

So Kendall, seemingly at his most pathetic, heads to a press conference where it appears he will take the fall for all that has gone wrong at his family’s business. He will say that he knew about everything, and that no one above him knew anything. And then he says the opposite.

At the press conference, Kendall betrays Logan, with an assist from that lanky, benign fungus Cousin Greg, good old Greg Sprinkles. In an immensely satisfying, surprising turn of events, Kendall is, actually, a killer in the way his father meant it. Or is he? Is Logan’s smile in the final minutes one of pride or one of collaboration? Is that smirk because this was the plan all along or because Logan finally sees what he’s been waiting for: a true successor? It’s a wonderfully rousing ending that, this being Succession, I’m willing to bet by the end of next season, will no longer seem quite like a happy one.

Correction, Oct. 14, 2019: This post originally misspelled Brian Cox’s first name.

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In its second season, Succession , America’s favorite show about the haunting legacy of physical and psychological abuse and/or rich white folks trying to win a kiss from daddy — has seemingly gone from a show that a bunch of TV critics couldn’t shut up about to a show that seemingly everybody* can’t shut up about.

(*who works in the media)

The HBO series has made good on the prediction that I, Vox critic at large Emily VanDerWerff, made back when Game of Thrones ’ final season had just ended: that Succession would become the next TV show everybody was preoccupied with. Its ratings are nowhere near as big as Game of Thrones ’ ratings (though its audience has grown from season one to season two), but the fans it does have seem obsessed with it almost to distraction — exactly what you need when building a massive TV sensation.

Going into the season finale in which all the show’s fans could talk about online was who Logan’s “blood sacrifice” could possibly be. Kendall? Tom? Roman? Shiv? Gerri?! (God, not Gerri!) And then “ This Is Not for Tears ” aired, and it was so much more than the endless questioning leading up to it.

It ended in a place the series has always been heading toward — Logan and Kendall finally at war — but got there via a side door. And the buildup to those tremendous final moments, with Kendall finally, finally flipping on his father on live television, was bruising and boozy, with the characters sailing through a too-hot yacht trip from hell.

But you know that no Succession season finale would be complete without winners who’ve just taken one step closer to the spoils of the Roy empire (and/or earning Logan’s love) and losers who will have to spend the long wait between seasons licking their wounds. So for the last time in 2019, I’m joined by The Goods by Vox editor Meredith Haggerty to talk winners, losers, and the future of Waystar Royco. And was the biggest winner of them all the word “but”? Well, we’ll answer that too.

Winner: Kendall??!?!

Emily: When it looked as if this episode would end like “DC” hinted it might — with Logan making Kendall his “blood sacrifice” — I was satisfied for having predicted the proper “skull” but also disappointed in the sense that it felt so much like Succession ’s season one finale , wherein Kendall saw his open rebellion quelled via unfortunate circumstances. Was the arc of this show just going to be Kendall taking the fall for other people’s sins, bearing his father’s punishment with meek and mild, “Uh-huh”s?

Nope! “This Is Not for Tears” ends with Kendall ripping up the notes that have been prepared for him and tossing them like confetti as he exits the press conference where he stabbed his father in the back. It was awesome.

To get to a place where this felt as satisfying as it did, Succession had to spend an entire season watching Kendall slowly disintegrate under his father’s thumb and then had to make us care just enough about the Shiv-Kendall relationship to be at least a little sad to watch her become so intimately tied to Kendall’s ouster from Waystar Royco.

Logan’s tyranny has so defined his children’s lives that it’s hard to imagine a world in which the four of them find a way to step out from under him. Kendall’s choice, arguably, is the only way to get his father to respect him, even if it means Logan will probably try to have him killed — both metaphorically and (almost certainly) literally.

After all, when Kendall asks Logan if he ever could have been the big boss, Logan tells him he’s not sure Kendall could ever be a killer. It’s the wrong move — more on that in two seconds — but it’s also a move that Kendall seems determined to disprove, right down to giving his dad a Judas kiss. (Eat your heart out, Demi Adejuyigbe !) We’ll see who can be a killer now , dad.

Meredith: In last week’s penultimate episode, Logan casually accused Roman of wanting to fuck his mother (and excuse you, Gerri is not his mother), but he was worried about the wrong Oedipal impulse in the wrong tormented son. Killer Ken! I’m almost as proud as Logan!

Logan’s crushing of Kendall, as Emily mentioned, was brutal this episode: the cruel dismissal of and gaslighting about Naomi, another round of humiliation in front of Stewie (Logan offers to give up Ken’s board seat as part of the possible deal), all culminating in a murder the victim is supposed to agree to. It had to be in that moment, when Logan doubted his fortitude, that Ken truly turned. But I wonder if Logan’s fate wasn’t really sealed when he invoked the cruise’s offensive motto — “no real person involved” — to refer to the waiter Kendall let drown. Kendall has a better idea than most Roys that other people are horribly, horribly real.

What’s next for Kendall, in a post-Logan world? It seems pretty likely that he’ll be telling his whole story now, not just talking about the cruise mess, and he certainly has the media connections to do it. PGM, New York magazine, Jessica Hecht’s forgotten biographer character. Hey, maybe he’ll even write a book of his own!

Loser: Shiv!!!!

Meredith: Oh Shiv, Shiv, Shiv, Shiv. So close, so far; doesn’t even matter anymore.

None of Shiv’s plans this episode go as expected, no matter how meticulously she plants the seeds. Yes, she’s able to arrange for a female steward to be her and Tom’s unicorn for a threesome, but it’s an overture he nervously rejects due to what seems to be performance anxiety but is in fact a deep and abiding desire to only bone his wife (Tom suggests they have the woman watch them ... from the bathroom). Worse, it ends up forcing them to have the kind of emotional discussion married adults sometimes have to have, the kind about how one of them is secretly horrifically unhappy (“I do maybe also demand to gobble the odd side dick,” being a thing I assume all married people say to one another).

And much more importantly: Yes, Dad ultimately goes with the plan they had “discussed” — Shiv was the only one who knew how likely Logan was to ax Kendall — but Kendall ruins it by, you know, exposing Logan to the world. Oh, and rooting for your brother’s demise is like, bad? But even before the end of what could easily be understood to be a Shiv season, the only Roy daughter is reduced to having the unspecific title of “a very senior person” dangled in front of her while begging for her miserable husband’s life, only to see it all go up in smoke. Not great for the woman who was nearly CEO. Shiv maintains her position beside Logan, but that seems like a pretty dangerous place to be.

That said: fantastic jumpsuits this episode. No one wears white better. And we’ll always have the hair.

Emily: God, Shiv’s probably gonna get another haircut between seasons again, and ... and ... I don’t think I’ve ever loved anything on television as much as I’ve loved Shiv’s hair. Alack and alas!

Otherwise, Shiv truly showed how bad she was at making the tough calls this season. Even by her father’s “you have to be a killer” estimation, it’s not really that hard to argue that she made the easy and incorrect choice when begging to keep Tom’s job. And that’s to say nothing of how she was forced to take a very hard look at some huge cracks in her marriage, cracks that will not be easily fixed, if they are at all.

In the end, Succession season two used the character of Shiv to say something devastating about lean-in style feminism, the idea that what we need are more women in boardrooms and not necessarily massive structural changes that would radically alter our patriarchal institutions. Shiv entered the season as the one character who was far enough outside of the family enough to viably be named the next CEO. And now she exits it as an even more terrible person than she already was (Gerri herself points to witness tampering!).

It doesn’t matter who’s in the big chair if the whole system is broken. And Waystar Royco is so broken that it takes whatever was good in Shiv (admittedly a tiny few droplets) and wrings it out of her. And all along the way, it toys with the emotions of those of us who might find Shiv just a little too relatable, who might just be currently growing their hair into a very familiar power bob, by reminding us of just how complicit she’s always been.

Loser: Logan

Emily: Think all the way back to “ Tern Haven ,” this season’s fifth episode. Remember how that episode ended with the Pierces agreeing to Logan’s deal if he would simply name Shiv as his successor — something he had promised to her in the season premiere (however uncertain his word may be)? Remember how he blew it up because he doesn’t like to be told what to do? Remember how many moments the season centered on him seemingly isolating and wounding himself due to his inability to give up control?

Well, that’s what we call “great season construction,” because it was all leading to this. If Logan had told Kendall that, yes, Kendall could have been a great CEO, would Kendall have decided against taking down his dad? It’s impossible to say one way or the other, but it certainly might have tempered Kendall’s wrath a tiny bit.

In retrospect, season two now feels like one about how Logan’s refusal to give an inch when it comes to his kids made them into the terrible, damaged people they are, while also guaranteeing that in his old age, those deeds would be repaid over and over and over again. There are so many instances in this season where, if Logan had just said or done something slightly different, he might not have seen his son assail the foundations of his empire.

But he didn’t. The finale ends on a shot of the man staring implacably forward. What is he thinking? Who knows — but the horizon is drenched with dark clouds filled with rain.

Winner: Roman

Meredith: Roman wins this week by showing up — literally, as far as I’m concerned, because I was very worried about him dying last week. But Roman made it out of Turkey, not just okay, and not just more-than-okay-with-a-multi-billion-dollar-deal, but with the sense and courage to tell Logan that this deal could not be as good as it seemed. Who is this young man, with a head for business and a nearly thoughtful manner, who only makes jokes every other sentence, instead of two per?

It does seem like Roman’s kidnapping changed him for the better: Besides being clear-eyed about the Turkish deal, he actually suggests talking “normally” to his siblings (who, of course, respond by saying “normally” in funny voices). Could Roman be ready for human connection? He even protests Kendall’s offing, the way a person would stand up for their brother.

Plus, and these are the real stakes after all, he did indeed win the theme song’s kiss from daddy by landing the job of COO (“Roman wins a kiss from Dadd-eeee”). It might just be the high from his still-developing master plan to burn the house down, but Ken looks incredibly proud.

Winner: Gerri

Meredith: If Gerri had been blamed for cruises, I would have rioted in the streets!!

No one has shown Waystar Royco more loyalty, as Logan pointed out while still fully planning to business-behead his devoted general counsel. In fact, doom seems terribly close for Gerri a few times over the course of this godforsaken yacht excursion, as her name is repeatedly included in Logan’s various iterations of who should take the fall.

But luckily, along with a fantastic boating wardrobe and an eternally unflappable manner, she has Roman in her corner, whose stirring defense of his sex mommy (“Haven’t we — and I’m kidding here — killed enough women?”) helps to spare her. Gerri survives another day, sees her semi-betrothed installed in a serious power position (season three: the Rockstar and the Molewoman, here we come!), and well, she still isn’t an actual Roy, a blessing in and of itself.

Emily: Our dear Wambsgans is such a goofball that it’s tempting to forget he apparently has a beating heart and real human emotions inside of him (we checked!). But in the finale, a season full of Tom’s slow-building anger and rage at the various situations that are out of his control (and especially being informed by his wife that he’s in an open marriage on his wedding night) implodes rather than explodes.

He tells his wife he’s not sure he’s happier since he married her than he was without her. He tries to explain just how distraught he is. And what was it that tipped off these bad feelings? The moment when Shiv failed to sufficiently stand up for him at the gigantic family meeting that is the episode’s centerpiece, and it became clear that if push came to shove, Shiv would shove Tom out of a helicopter if it meant she could advance just a few steps further in her father’s company. (To be fair, he might do the same.)

And here’s the final twist of the knife: Shiv, so moved by her husband’s utter despair, contrives to spare him and keep him close — just when Kendall is about to blow up the company. Honestly, the Tom and Shiv marriage is a thing Succession hasn’t quite explained in a fashion where it makes a ton of sense, but this feels like the start of some serious introspection, like the series owning up to the idea that it just might be broken beyond repair, even if both parties have tried to fix it at various times.

Winner: Greg

Emily: Succession has gained a reputation in some corners — including in the Vox Slack chats about Succession — for raising plot points that seem dreadfully important, then letting them slide, seemingly forgotten.

Well, just look at how long those documents Greg saved from shredding have been floating around the edges of the series, only to make their triumphant return at Kendall’s news conference! To be sure, the show spent lots of time reminding us those documents exist. It made sure in every other episode that they were mentioned. It even gave us a scene of Greg saving some from being destroyed, just a few episodes ago.

But the way they’ve remained mostly offscreen until right now and the way that they neatly resolve Greg’s growing conflict over his place in the Roy family, versus the family he grew up in, is terrifically engaging and great character development for our favorite very tall boy. (I anxiously await the many scenes of Kendall and Greg interacting with each other next season.) Greg did the right thing — whatever that means — and once again, he rises to the winner’s circle. Just can’t keep a good Greg down!

(Less auspicious: Greg going before Congress and speaking in extremely formal terms, even when he’s told he can speak normally. “I shall,” Greg intones.)

Loser: the rest of the executive suite

Meredith: Oof, it sucks to be a high-ranking official under Logan Roy. Even his initial idea about a blood sacrifice was mostly limited to Waystar Royco’s generals (Gerri, Frank, Karl, Syd, and Ray, went the list), a reminder that all of these semi-interchangeable people are expendable. From Karl, whose love of illicit massages is once again rubbed in his face, to Laird, whose expertise is rebuffed in favor of Roman’s gut, to Karolina, who is stuck in the very room where Kendall is exploding Waystar Royco, no one is coming out on top. “We are real people,” Karl reminds Roman, who claims to be keeping a betting sheet to track which of the non-Roy execs will be ousted. “You say that, but look at you,” Rome replies.

The questions of what they knew and when they knew it (universally: “a lot about crimes but somehow nothing about basic morality” and “probably from the very beginning”) are about to become very public fodder, and the scramble to get in front of this disaster is going to be great TV.

Winner: Naomi

Emily: Naomi! Get out of here! Before you can be sucked back into this whole — [gestures vaguely to Roy family] thing. You can finally be free!

We look forward to seeing you again in season three.

Loser: The Connor/Willa duology

Emily: It’s kind of fun watching Connor enjoy how the world’s finest meme-makers are contributing to his campaign (one of their memes apparently involves Connor bringing down the Berlin Wall!), and he’s truly embraced the name “Conheads.” But then the reviews for Willa’s play come in, and Will throws Con’s tablet right over the side of the boat.

It’s always this way with these two: Things seem to be going along nicely, and then somebody shows up to tell you you’re not doing so well and you throw your tablet overboard.

The rest of the episode doesn’t strike much more of a promising note, containing as it does Connor’s offer to fall on the sword for Logan, Logan forcing him to suspend his campaign, and Logan also refusing to lean on his newspapers in hopes of getting some good reviews for Willa’s play. Of all Succession ’s major characters, Connor was perhaps least well-served by this season, and it’s not particularly clear why he’s part of the show at this point. Hopefully, future seasons provide some clarity beyond, “Sometimes he’s funny.”

Winner: Dat boat

Meredith: As a devoted viewer of Below Deck Mediterranean , I know how tense things can get on a yacht. More like a fracht, amiright? (Fraught? No? We’re trying to write this on a deadline.)

But wow, was this a beautiful, gas-guzzling monster. Even life-long boat-seer Kendall was impressed. Marcia had the ship “refit,” as they apparently say, in the billionaire version of “cutting [Logan’s] ties,” but for my money (none), it looks awesome. The swimming pools, the luxe master suites, the uncomfortably hospitable staff (as if agreeing to a threesome with Tom and Shiv wasn’t enough, the same devoted steward deals with Greg’s benign toenail fungus). If I was a billionaire who was gathering my family for a mini-break/internal trial, I would definitely be contacting this yachting company.

Loser: the Ford Motor Company

Emily: Do you ever think about how the Ford Motor Company isn’t really what you think of when you think of “Ford”? How it’s just a collection of entities and systems that share that name, but it’s not actually the “Ford” we all know and love? I’m sure you do all the time, or you will now that Logan reminded you of it in this episode. Of all the shambling legal entities known as corporations in this great country, who knows why Succession picked Ford to drag — but it did!

Winner: Succession ’s crew

Emily: From Mark Mylod’s sun-soaked direction to what might have been composer Nicholas Britell’s best score for the series yet, “This Is Not for Tears” offered a terrific look at just why Succession has captivated so many people. This is one of the most technically proficient and beautifully shot shows on television, its diorama-like frames pinning the characters in place, slowly stripping away their artificiality until we see both what’s terrible and beautiful about them.

The Roys and their associates are monsters, but we’re caged in with them, on some level. And when everything about their lives looks this gorgeous, we have no choice but to sympathize with them. At least a little bit.

Winner: the word “but”

Emily: The way Jeremy Strong lets the word “BUT...” hover as Kendall completely makes the turn from taking the fall to destroying his dad — we love to see it! Here’s hoping season three arrives as quickly as possible.

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The Vox guide to HBO’s “Succession”

Season 4 of Succession is going to be a bloodbath
Episode 1: What Logan Roy’s sad birthday party tells you about the new season of Succession
Episode 2: All the world’s a stage, and the Roys are flubbing their lines
Episode 3: Well, that happened
Episode 4: On Succession, someone finally wins a kiss from daddy
Episode 5: On Succession, the GoJo deal goes to Norway, with sinister Midsommar vibes
Episode 6: On Succession, Sisyphus rolls the rock uphill
Episode 7: On Succession, Tom and Shiv throw a tailgate party from hell
Episode 8: Succession’s election night painfully shows us how cable news is made
Episode 9: On Succession, it’s time to face Logan Roy’s legacy
Finale: Nothing changed and everything changed in Succession’s third season
The four F’s of trauma response and the four Roy kids of Succession
The dark, enthralling power of Succession
Let Succession be ambiguous
Episode 1: 4 winners and 4 losers from the season premiere, “The Summer Palace”
Episode 2: 5 winners and 5 losers from “Vaulter”
Episode 3: 6 winners and 5 losers from “Hunting”
Episode 4: 6 winners and 7 losers from “Safe Room,” a particularly wild episode
Episode 5: 6 winners and 3 losers from “Tern Haven,” Succession’s best episode yet
Episode 6: 6 winners and 5 losers from “Argestes,” in which the unthinkable happens
Episode 7: 5 winners and 5 losers from “Return,” an episode that crumples everybody up like a napkin
Episode 8: 5 winners and 6 losers from “Dundee,” an episode that had much more embarassment than usual
Episode 9: “DC,” an episode where absolutely everyobody loses
How HBO’s Succession pulled off its brutal finale
HBO’s Succession has quietly become my favorite show of the summer
Succession ends exactly how it needed to
The rise of Succession, TV’s new must-watch show
Succession uses Shiv Roy’s hair and clothes to tell the story of her quest for power
Why HBO’s Succession will be the new Game of Thrones
What was Succession actually trying to tell us?
Succession’s roots were in theater. That’s why it was great.
Succession’s Kendall is Shakespeare’s Prince Hal gone terribly wrong

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This Is Not for Tears

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Logan weighs whether a member of the family or a top lieutenant will need to be sacrificed to salvage the company's tarnished reputation. Roman shares his hesitations about a new source of financing, as Kendall suggests a familiar alternative.

1 . The Summer Palace

Kendall tries to make amends with his dad. Logan receives stark advice from his banker.

2 . Vaulter

Roman and Kendall compete to "fix" Vaulter in their own unique ways. Greg wonders if ATN is the right fit. Shiv brings Tom in the loop.

3 . Hunting

Logan makes an unpopular decision to acquire a rival news company.

4 . Safe Room

Roman starts a management training program with the "normals" in the Parks division.

5 . Tern Haven

Logan tries to keep his family in line as they woo the owners of a venerable news media brand. Kendall makes his case to Naomi Pierce.

6 . Argestes

Logan's deal with the Pierces is threatened. Kendall, Shiv and Roman differ on damage control strategies.

A trip to the UK finds the Roy kids negotiating with their mother. Logan turns to Rhea for advice.

Logan reflects on his past and future upon returning to his hometown of Dundee, Scotland. Shiv conspires to take down Rhea.

Logan, Kendall, Gerri and Tom testify before Congress. Shiv is candid with a key witness. Roman’s business pitch takes a scary turn.

10 . This Is Not for Tears

How ‘Succession’ Built a ‘Killer’ Season Finale

“ Deep Dive ” is a in-depth podcast and video essay series with the stars, creators and crafts team behind an exceptional piece of filmmaking. For this edition, the IndieWire Crafts team partnered with HBO to take a closer look at the Season 2 finale, Episode 10 of “ Succession ” — “This Is Not for Tears” — with creator Jesse Armstrong , executive producer and director Mark Mylod, actors Brian Cox and Jeremy Strong , as well as seven members of the crafts team.

It was the season finale that had everyone talking, with an ending that was both shocking and, in retrospect, a completely logical conclusion for Logan (Brian Cox), Kendall (Jeremy Strong), and the rest of the Roy family. Now climb aboard their $150 million yacht to find out how such a perfect episode of television was made.

In the podcast below, the filmmakers, along with actors Brian Cox and Jeremy Strong, pull back the curtain on filming the iconic “You’re not a killer” scene as well as Logan’s final smirk. Editor Bill Henry reveals the ways he needed to pull back in the editing room, even losing parts of scenes, to ensure what happens at the press conference remained a surprise, but still stayed true to Kendall’s journey to betray his father. Composer Nicholas Britell shares the music he wrote to capture the demons that brought Kendall to this dramatic decision.

You can listen to the podcast above, or by subscribing via Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or Overcast .

What you learn in the podcast above is how an episode of “Succession” gets made: How Armstrong intentionally over-writes episodes that he, Mylod, and the editors will trim whole scenes from in the editing room, as the show is allowed to constantly hone TV’s sharpest blade cuts. What’s remarkable — and is reflected in the video essays below — is how this applies at all stages of creation. “Succession” is a tightly structured piece of storytelling that is kept fresh by creatives who are constantly able to improvise and react to what unfolds. Adds Armstrong, “[Our] craftspeople are doing things that you couldn’t verbalize because they do them with rhythm. And they’re [involved] with all the choices that are there to be made, and you’re in sync with them — it just means that my work is much easier.”

Capturing the Roys: Revealing Reactions

On “Succession,” scenes are shot by two to three camera operators who are given a tremendous amount of freedom and encouragement to follow their instincts. Listening and reacting to characters, they pan and reframe to capture what they instinctively feel is most interesting. “The camera reacts with the speed of a human being rather than somebody who knows what’s going to happen next,” Armstrong said. “And that lets the comedy and drama play in a way which I think subliminally makes you feel like you’re in the room.”

This means the camera operators will often move off the character who is speaking, putting as much significance on those reacting to the speaker. “It isn’t just, ‘OK, grab that line.’ It’s as much about finding what’s going on underneath the surface,” Mark Mylod, who directed the Season 2 finale, said. The real gold is when the operators capture a character reacting “when they don’t think they’re being watched by other characters, but the camera is catching that moment, [and] we as an audience are let into their unconscious in a way. It’s a window into their souls.”

With three cameras rolling, scenes around the dinner table offer a lot of windows into a number of different souls. “With the amount that we shoot, and the number of cameras, and the number of takes when we have the time, and the level of improvisation and the subtlety of the actors who we’re working with,” Armstrong said, “it is infinite how you could cut the scenes. So, when I think of that, it makes me want to throw up.”

How to bring all these revealing moments together is the job of “Succession” editors Ken Eluto and BIll Henry. In the video essay above, Henry takes you inside the important breakfast table aboard Logan’s yacht in the Season 2 finale and explains how the syncopated rhythms of a scene like that are akin to cutting a musical.

The Gilded Cage: Crafting an Uncomfortable Luxury

It’s part of the DNA of “Succession” that viewers travel with the Roy family to places of extreme wealth and privilege. In a serialized narrative with virtually no standing sets, most new episodes take audiences somewhere new and extravagant, and the Season 2 finale is no exception as everyone climbs aboard Logan Roy’s $150 million yacht.

But how does the filmmaking team behind “Succession” avoid fetishizing the extreme wealth they’re satirizing? Just the act of peeling back the curtain on the extreme luxury we never get to see has a natural voyeuristic pleasure for the viewer.

In the video essay above, production designer Stephen Carter, executive producer and director Mark Mylod, cinematographer Patrick Capone, and series creator Jesse Armstrong analyze how a subtle use of filmmaking craft directs the viewer to focus on the discomfort the Roy family feels inside its gilded cages.

“We want to make sure that the audience, rather than being sort of seduced by the wealth porn side of things, really feels the neglect or the unimportance to them of all this expensive paraphernalia,” Carter said.

Not a Killer: Getting Into Kendall’s Head

There’s a darkness that hangs over Kendall Roy (Jeremy Strong) in Season 2 of “Succession.” Ever since the car crashed into the lake at the end of Season 1 — resulting in the death of the waiter and the subsequent cover-up of that death by Logan — Kendall has been mentally and spiritually tortured. In the video essay above, we go inside how Mylod and composer Nicholas Britell bring the viewer inside that torment by connecting it to the moment that caused it.

“Whenever we put the character in water, we make him vulnerable,” Mylod said. “We metaphorically crucify him, in the water.”

Composer Nicholas Britell describes the music he wrote for the Season 1 finale’s car crash as Kendall’s “true moment of darkness.” And it’s that music, “Kendall’s Return,” that the composer and editor Bill Henry bring back at key moments of Season 2 where that darkness, and the memory of the young man’s death, weighs particularly heavy on Kendall.

In fact, it’s that music that accompanies Kendall as he enters Logan’s state room for the famous “You have to be a killer” scene during the Season 2 finale. In the second part of this essay, we go behind the shooting of that scene with Mylod, Strong, Henry, and cinematographer Patrick Capone.

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“Quiet luxury” might not be as unattainable as you might think.

Every few years, a television show becomes so overwhelmingly successful that it starts to impact the culture in the most unexpected of ways. Is probably isn’t a coincidence that HBO boardroom drama Succession’s blockbuster final season coincides with the “quiet luxury” mini-boom we’re seeing in the worlds of fashion and interior decor. And that’s because after years of there being so much showing off in fashion—the logos, the oversized proportions, the 90’s-inspired everything, the TikTok of it all—the clothes of Succession have been a bastion of restraint and elevated taste. This show could make even the most trend-driven dressers consider the prospect of a quintessential navy turtleneck.

By the time the show’s final episode airs on May 28th and the Roy family bloodbath inevitably comes to an end, we’re going to have to mourn this show’s singular sense of style. Go easy on us fans as we cope. Where else on TV can we expect to see “ludicrously capacious” luxury handbags? Loro Piana cashmere baseball caps? Blouses that cost as much as mortgage payments?

This one-percenter fantasy comes thanks to costume designer Michelle Matland, who has costumed the series since it began production in 2017. We caught up with the legendary costume designer as her five-season run winds down to an end. She spoke about the collaborative nature of how the show’s costumes came to be—and how even the most-expensive looking pieces came from some pretty unexpected places.

What is your approach for costuming a show like Succession?

Well I always followed the premise, always following [the show’s creator and showrunner] Jesse Armstong and the writers room, starting with the words on the page and then going to the actors in the fitting room and finding out how the script translates to costume. I’m driven completely by the language, the style, and the inferences. Pretty much everything is designed as a followup to the story.

Whose costumes have changed the most?

Shiv’s transformation has been pretty dramatic. She started wanting to be a part of the political world, so she wanted to dress down so she could fit in, and not always be identified as affluent as she is. But over the seasons, she started to change her directions as she came back to the family, so she needs to fit in the boardroom with everyone else. You especially see this in the third season, where she’s kind of finding herself and identifies herself not only as a sexual being, but she’s also putting pieces of the puzzle together so she can basically battle within the family with her brothers.

Does her transformation continue this season?

This season you will see yet again a new version of Shiv. She knows who she is as a woman, as a business woman, and I think you will see more of a transformation as we go through. It’s a melange of al the seasons. You see a little bit of her as a woman, but we also go back to all those suits. There are other things that I can’t divulge yet, too!

What were some of your inspirations and references in costuming Succession?

At the beginning, very early on, I would go down to different corporations on Wall Street and sit in the lobbies and see who came through the door. It as very clear that you could absolutely tell who was the lower echelon in a company and who was a corporate head. We did a lot of research on America’s great corporate families, too. The Murdochs and such.

The term “quiet luxury” has become very trendy in fashion these days, and I think the success of this show might have something to do with the term’s popularity. I have often wondered—are the costumes we’re seeing on screen actually as expensive as they look?

That’s a tricky question. They can be. I won’t say that I have never found something terrific at a Zara…. and occasionally I’ve been to Men’s Wearhouse. I’m not a snob about it. And we also did the outlet malls. New Jersey is one of my favorite shopping districts. There’s a great outlet mall, Woodbury Commons. And I will say, having lost Century 21 in the city was a huge loss. They had great things. I’m very sad.

I can’t believe you sourced things from outlets! Everything on the show looks so… rich!

Well, we also go to a lot of the high-end boutiques. For Kendall, [the costumes we developed with Jeremy Strong] are really only from Tom Ford, Gucci, really best of the best stuff. Not because Jeremy is prissy about it, but because he wants to be authentic—and he’s really done his homework.

So you collaborate a lot with the actors?

I don’t bring a single thing onto set that’s pre-designed solely on my own. The actors and I go into a room and work together on everything. It is completely collaborative.

How much ‘stuff’ did it take to costume this season of Succession?

Every character in each episode has anywhere from 5 to 10 changes. So that’s quite the collection. It was a packed truck.

How was this show different from other productions you’ve worked on?

It was such a wonderful experience. The crew, our production assistants, our shoppers, our wardrobe crew—I was backed up by the best, and every department was just A-1 quality. It was wonderful, and it was really an ensemble piece with the cast, to see how they worked together, seeing how they got better and better with each other as actors.

I love to ask costume designers: were there any clothes your actors tried to pilfer from set?

In the end, I think a lot of the clothes went to the actors [contractually]. That happens on many shows. There’s some kind of deal made with production. Glenn Close and Harrison Ford, for instance, it’s well known that they have in their contracts that their clothes go to them. Glenn has a temperature controlled storage unit, so she has a history of her career which is a wonderful thing, the idea being that ultimately that stuff could get shown in museums.

This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity.

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The St. David is down not one, but two crewmembers.

During Below Deck 's March 18 episode, Captain Kerry Titheradge fired the first season 11 yachtie when he let Bosun Jared Woodin go for unprofessional behavior, the last straw being an inebriated Jared barging into Stew Barbie Pascual 's cabin the night prior and yelling at Deckhand Kyle Stillie for leaving a mess of loose tobacco on the deck after a night of partying.

"This is the second time you've gone on the piss and you've had bad behavior," Kerry told his subordinate. "You're in a leadership role. You can't be acting like that. You gotta be above the fray. The way that you're treating these guy is not acceptable."

But it wasn't just the alcohol that was the problem, as Kerry noted Jared's mental state wasn't where it needed to be. "You've got s--t going on, man," he shared. "You're your own worst enemy right now. You need to depart the vessel."

However, Jared agreed his head wasn't in the right place and accepted his termination graciously.

"This ain't the right place for me at the right time," Jared replied, to which Kerry responded, "I don't blame you for that. Take this time and work on yourself. Me keeping you here is a disservice to you."

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Where to find Midas in Fortnite Chapter 5 season 2

With patch 29.01, Midas has returned to the Fortnite island, and you can find him during your games. Here’s where to find Midas in Fortnite Chapter Five, season two.

Ascendant Midas location in Fortnite Chapter 5 season 2

The Marigold yacht marked on the Fortnite map

Ascendant Midas is located at The Marigold yacht on the west shore of the island . Look a bit below The Underworld, where Hades lives, and you’ll see the yacht on the edge of the map. Once you land on the yacht, look for Midas on the top deck . He’s usually walking back and forth and will be marked on your screen with a text bubble icon.

If you have gold to spare, you can buy an Epic Drum Gun that returns in patch 29.01 for 300 gold or heal yourself for 50 gold. At the time of writing, Ascendant Midas is an NPC and not a boss. If you eliminate him, he’ll drop a Rare Drum Gun and reappear as a hologram, just like any other NPC on the island.

It’s unclear whether we’ll be able to get our hands on the rumored Mythic Midas Drum Gun , but it may be introduced later in the season. The weapon could related to the Rise of Midas questline, which kicked off alongside Midas’s return to the island. Currently, only the first of five phases of quests is available in Fortnite, and as the story unfolds, we might get both the Mythic weapon and a new enemy to fight.

Fortnite leaker FNAssist mentioned that the Drum Gun will be obtainable from a “Pow boss.” While we don’t know what this boss is, it’s seemingly not in the game at the time of writing. Instead, all the attention is directed at the Floor is Lava LTM, which has its own series of quests to complete and rewards to earn.

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As If It Wasn’t Imposing Enough, Physical: 100 Season 2 Is Themed Around A Giant Underground Mine

Physical 100: Season 2 Filming Locations and Theme

After the success of the grueling first season of Physical: 100 , Season 2 had to go even bigger. The stakes are higher, the challenges more intense, and the filming location even more intimidating. The second season is subtitled Underground and is themed around a giant subterranean mine, with all the darkness and claustrophobia that entails.

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Physical: 100 Season 2 was filmed in Goyang, South Korea . As above, the backdrop was changed to a giant underground mine.

And it really is gigantic. In an interview with Lifestyle Asia , showrunner Jang Ho-gil revealed the set was much bigger than the previous season — in fact, almost double the size. Jang said: “I think this is probably the biggest studio for an unscripted show in South Korea” .

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The producer would go on to reveal the theme of the show, and the deliberate attempt to go in a completely different direction than the first season to create a show that feels refreshed after its first run. The theme of Physical: 100 Season 2 is an underground mine that captures the claustrophobic and imposing atmosphere of an underground arena, with Jang saying the set embodies “where all of someone’s greed, sacrifice, competition, and teamwork intertwine” .

The shift in timelines to the 50s and 60s inspired Jang, who chose the period when “mankind faced fierce competition and had to live against and fight against injustice.” The producers wanted to create a real atmosphere for this season, stating “(we) wanted it to feel like a whole universe that’s organically linked to each other.”

Despite the different aesthetic, Physical: 100 Season 2 doesn’t feel a great deal different from its predecessor, which is what fans will have been hoping for. The idea of physique is still integral to the competition, as ultimately it is trying to determine which physique is the best — or at least most ideally suited to physical challenges. Molds of each contestant’s torso remain an important visual motif, however one key aspect of the second season that does make it feel slightly different is that the cast is more diverse.

Jang did mention this differentiator in the interview linked above, noting that the second season of the show includes more body types and people from different walks of life. This is reflected in the contestants, who range from the usual Olympic-level Judokas, MMA fighters, and CrossFit enthusiasts, to actors and influencers.

Physical: 100 was created by MBC’s producer Jang Ho-gi who would also direct the series. Season 1 was released from January 24 to February 21, 2023, and was the first unscripted Korean show to top Netflix’s non-English TV chart.

We’re also keeping track of all the Physical: 100 Season 2 results , if you want to follow along. We’ll have the latest winners and eliminations when Season 2 Episodes 5-7 drop on March 26.

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Where is Ascendant Midas in Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 2? Answered

L ooking for Midas in Fortnite ? We have everything you need to know about the NPC's return, including where to find Ascendant Midas in Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 2.

Fortnite update v29.01 is all about Midas, the iconic Chapter 2 character that ruled the island along with Brutus. Although Midas' story ended with his death, he has finally been resurrected in Epic Games' Battle Royale, thanks to the arrival of Hades, the God of the Underworld. The Ascendant Midas skin might not be available in the Item Shop until next week, but fans can now find and interact with the NPC in traditional Battle Royale or Zero Build matches.

So, where can fans find Ascendant Midas in Fortnite Myths & Mortals?

Ascendant Midas in Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 2 is located on The Marigold Yacht. The yacht is between the grass and Underworld biomes, on the western side of the map. Once you board the ship, you will find Ascendant Midas wandering around the yacht.

If you find Ascendant Midas early enough in the game, you can buy an Epic Drum Gun from him for 300 Bars. Of course, you could get a Drum Gun for free from ground loot, Chests, or Supply Drops, but if you want a guaranteed Epic Drum Gun, then interact with Ascendant Midas and complete your purchase.

When is Ascendant Midas Coming to the Fortnite Item Shop? Answered

Ascendant Midas is coming to the Fortnite Item Shop on Tuesday, Mar. 26, 2024, at 8 p.m. ET. The skin will be available for purchase, along with the Golden King's Cape Back Bling and The Golden Touch Pickaxe.

Although Epic Games has not revealed the price of the cosmetics just yet, we expect the Ascendant Midas skin to cost at least 1,500 V-Bucks.

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8 winners and 6 losers from a Succession finale that blows up the whole show

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Winner: Kendall??!?!

Loser: Shiv!!!!

Loser: Logan