Please continue to respect all commenters and create constructive debates. Want an ad-free experience?Subscribe to Independent Premium. 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 (Brian Cox) — Kendall has been mentally and spiritually tortured. Kendall is all front, claiming he is “looking for pussy like a fucking techno Gatsby,” but in reality floating around parties gormless and high while trying to work the room. Shiv wears her usual corporate chastity belt of high-waist trousers while they both try to casually suss out whether the other wants to fly home for the action. People often call Succession Shakespearian, and nowhere was this more evident than with Boar on the Floor, a game instigated by patriarch Logan Roy in season two. Welcome to Deep Dive, IndieWire’s new podcast and video series that takes a detailed look at an exceptional piece of filmmaking. Kendall Roy ahead of the unhappy incident. Independent Premium Comments can be posted by members of our membership scheme, Independent Premium. Please be respectful when making a comment and adhere to our Community Guidelines. Interviews with leading film and TV creators about their process and craft. You can also choose to be emailed when someone replies to your comment. It's a Hieronymus Bosch painting of power-hungry madness, a banquet of obscene wealth where platters of lobster are thrown in the bin and everyone walks out of helicopters without ducking, because, as Culkin says of the Roy children, "we grew up getting out of helicopters, you just walk right the fuck out.". “We haven’t finished! Due to the sheer scale of this comment community, we are not able to give each post the same level of attention, but we have preserved this area in the interests of open debate. As of today, both seasons of Succession – our Fleabag and Chernobyl-beating best show of last year, remember – are available to view again. It’s both a power move and a Guantanamo-level act of total humiliation. As the first two series of the HBO smash about a warring, super-rich brood returns to UK screens, here’s a rundown of the show’s greatest, most horrendous scenes, Last modified on Tue 9 Jun 2020 10.41 BST. In the meantime, it just appeared on Spotify. Both Kendall and Logan are sceptical of the other's romantic interests, with Kendall's attempts to warn his father of Rhea's possibly duplicitous intentions resulting in Logan barking back, "you're the one who's cunt-struck". In the second part of this essay, we go behind the shooting of that scene with Mylod, Strong, Henry, and cinematographer Patrick Capone. Does this suggest a certain prudery in the writers’ room, which is overseen by Jesse Armstrong (The Thick of It, Peepshow)? Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? The season two finale ended with Kendall decisively breaking away from the clutches of his father, by holding a press conference where he finally told the world the truth about all of Logan’s wrongdoings. The scene has lived on as a cult sequence among Succession fans. The headlines that ran on vast screens in the background were perfectly judged – “Wait, Is Every Taylor Swift Lyric Secretly Marxist?”, “This Tinder for Pedophiles App Sounds Like a Really Bad Idea”, “5 Reasons Why Drinking Milk on the Toilet Is Kind of a Game-Changer” – even if they did hit a little close to home for a man currently employed to write a listicle of TV show moments for the internet. Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! You will be redirected back to your article in, Get The Latest IndieWire Alerts And Newsletters Delivered Directly To Your Inbox. She was cocky and scared and sick and buzzing, all … One subplot involved the acquisition of Vaulter, a vaguely Vicey/Buzzfeedy/Gawkery website that was kept afloat on an empty wave of pure clickbait. Who are the wealthy families reflected in Succession? But as the rug is pulled from beneath him and he realises that he cannot talk his way out of it, he loses control and erupts in an orgy of genuinely frightening anger. The moment unfolds in the second season’s eighth episode, “Dundee”. This week, we’re lifting the hood on the Season 2 finale of ”Succession” — “This Is Not for Tears” — with creator Jesse Armstrong, executive producer and director Mark Mylod, as well as seven more members of the creative team and cast. And yet Kendall's sex life is strangely unglamorous, mostly because it’s largely limited to the hallway floor with his estranged wife Rava (Natalie Gold). Finally, here’s the moment that will vault Succession into the future. 'The Undoing' Episode 4 Recap: 'See No Evil'. At the end of the second season’s sixth episode, Logan learns that a skin-saving multi-billion-dollar deal he has long been angling for with his rival Nan Pierce has fallen through. The man deserves all the awards going. The fact Kendall wakes up alone having shit the bed suggests he did so figuratively as well as literally. Not only did it have to introduce you to … All rights reserved. In the video essay, Strong talks about the unique relationship he has with the “Succession” camera operators. In the second series, when he meets the similarly substance-prone scion of a rival media dynasty, Naomi Pierce (Annabelle Dexter-Jones), they kiss in between swigs of vodka in the family chopper in an unusually tender moment. In the immediate aftermath, he finds himself being sucked back into his father’s toxic orbit, and his total helplessness in the moment is enough to smash your heart into dust.