Succession does an amazing job at dropping these tidbits of information about the characters whenever they were younger, never allowing us a moment to sit and process it. It’s woven into the conversation as if they’re talking about the weather, like it’s something that’s deep in their past they’ve since then healed over. A bitter memory. But really, with the way that they carry themselves, it’s clear that the lack of flashbacks in Succession indicate that we are still living through their trauma.
We are perpetually observing each of the Roy kids be unable to grow out of their childhood. The man’s health is declining, he’s eighty and still his bellows send them to feel seven again. Logan Roy is kicking them and reopening wounds that they haven’t had a chance to lick clean, still wandering around bloody with the red that connects them with him.
They could see one another with a gaping hole and still they’d ask the other “How’s dad? Is Dad okay?” as if he is an extension of themselves. If Dad is okay, so are they. The hurt that he has caused them never being enough to outweigh the love that they have for him. I know a lot of people refer to the relationship that they have with their father being one of hatred but the issue with these kids comes not from how much they hate their father but how much they love him. They’re still so desperate to find some resemblance of love in Logan Roy’s hollow body that’s been stuffed with nothing but ego & hurt of his own. They’re at his heels, watching the door close and barking right at it in an attempt that he might hear them just this once.
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SUCCESSION (2018-2023)
3x08 | Chiantishire
4x03 | Connor's Wedding
4x10 | With Open Eyes
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well obviously, i always wanted one of you kids to takeover.
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I love Logan being in his pathetic little depressed cunt era. Like yeah thats right. your kids all hate you and fucked off like you told them to and they were the only people that challenged you and now you're stuck in room after room of people who cater to your every whim and are too afraid to even crack a joke at your expense. you got everything you wanted and now you're dealing with the consequences. BITCH
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