Logan ends up crowning a fascist headed for the White House at a hotel room during the Future Freedom Summit, much like the real-life Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).Īmerican television and artistic life has reached a remarkable moment when fascism and Hitler can be openly referred to and the reality of US political life so sharply delineated. The third season dramatizes the manner in which Logan “acts,” but now the company’s machinations intersect with Waystar’s conspiratorial plotting in the political sphere. We have to act.” The coronation of a fascist So when I say something, it f*cking happens. “I’m stuck in quicksand,” Logan screams in response to the supposed incompetence of everyone around him. The aging tycoon recognizes, however, that he must act decisively in response to the eruption of the crisis exposed by his son Kendall Roy (Jeremy Strong) at the conclusion of Season 2. Various characters in the family and the executive leadership bear responsibility to one extent or another. Over three seasons, Succession has explored this problem through the conflicts, scandals and family dynamics of the tyrannical media mogul Logan Roy (played powerfully by the 75-year old Brian Cox), who runs the global media and entertainment corporation Waystar Ro圜o.Īt the heart of the show’s conflict, with shades of Shakespeare’s King Lear, is whether the aging Logan-who suffers heart and other physical ailments, incipient senility and more-will step down and hand power to one of his children or to one of his top executives, all of whom scheme ferociously against each other for the position.Īs the power struggle in the family and its boardroom unfolds, Logan faces a growing scandal over his role in the cover-up of heinous crimes-assaults on workers, sexual abuse scandals and murders-committed by Waystar’s cruise division. how the hell have we got to this position in American and British politics?” In another interview with the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) last year, Armstrong added, “I first approached it from a sort of political, sociological viewpoint. In an interview several years ago, Armstrong spoke of what inspired him: “We thought of famous media families like the Hearsts, to modern-day Redstone, John Malone, Robert Fitz of Comcast, Murdoch, and Robert and Rebekah Mercer, who founded Breitbart. The show is created and led by the immensely talented Jesse Armstrong ( In the Loop, Peep Show, Veep), who has collaborated extensively with the cast and writers of the show.
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