Slate Magazine
•59% Informative
The number of non-white characters that appear across all four seasons of Succession can be counted on two, maybe three, hands.
The HBO series inspired by Rupert Murdoch’s media empire is nothing if not faithful to life.
But if there is one central character who proves an exception to that rule, it is Kendall Roy.
Succession has always understood unabashed whiteness, and, at long last, Kendall does, too.
He wants to be seen as a “good guy,” and that includes being a good white person, a champion for the marginalized.
This posturing is what grates the most—that sting of irony.
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