Perspective: “Succession’s” unexpected come-to-Jesus moment
for 3½ seasons, watched them audition for his favor, watched them fail. We have seen Logan toy with them, traumatize them and cloak his own disinclination to give power away in disappointment with their inadequacies.
It’s established by now that Logan’s psychological abuse emotionally deformed his children beyond repair. They all understand that they need to be “killers” to deserve his respect. Because he scorned every softer demonstration of tender feeling , they vied for his approval in a kind of cutthroat Kabuki, performing love — and hope for his approval — through vicious power plays.
Logan’s thinking eventually becomes so opaque and inaccessible to his children that we align with them in finding him not only threatening but also somehow omniscient. His pronouncements seem oracular, his verdicts correct. But “Look,” Logan says to Roman , Kendall and Shiv , as they hold the line. “I don’t do apologies. But if it means so much to you, then sorry.” As concessions go, this one is both massive and vague, too baldly strategic to produce a real reconciliation. “There’s nothing you could say to me now that I would ever believe,” Shiv says. Sorry for what, Roman wants to know.
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