And then the walls start closing in.įirst: the not-so-playful sparring, which keeps getting rougher by the minute. The first third of this episode is a bit of a romp, as the Roys rapidly punch and counterpunch. So everything inevitably implodes this week, not just for Kendall, but for his father and for Siobhan - and in a roundabout and sickeningly sad way, for Roman. Meanwhile, it turns out that Kendall has been doing exactly what Logan always assumed he was doing: using the Brightstar cruise line scandal as “a play,” to outwit his father and to reinvent himself as a progressive hero. Lisa has been trying to help the government, to keep her client out of jail. This is exactly what Kendall’s attorney Lisa Arthur warned him about last week as he bopped around his ex-wife’s apartment, feverishly pitching a coup to his siblings. is going to wait for them to finish clobbering each other.

Yet just because they’re preoccupied with petty power games doesn’t mean the F.B.I. The problem with the Roy family right now is that as far as they’re concerned, coming out ahead in their epic public squabble matters more than saving their company or avoiding federal prosecution. But any given episode - like this week’s “The Disruption” - can be brutal, as the characters we hate to love fall hard. “ Succession” is often a “fun” show, where all the sniping and the slip-ups of the rich and the arrogant generate some incredibly entertaining schadenfreude.

(Read our recap of the latest Succession episode in Season 3) Season 3, Episode 3: ‘The Disruption’

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