![]() ![]() That being said, seeing Shiv getting emotionally battered throughout almost the whole episode verges on unbearable. The magic of this show, overall, is in its ability to make us care about these horrible, no-good, very bad people - Snook is so layered as an actress that it’s incredibly easy to forget that, often, Shiv is not a very good person! At all! At the end of the day, Shiv is really only looking out for Shiv. Sarah Snook is reliably incredible throughout Succession, but Season 4 has really given her opportunities to shine more than ever before. Somehow, it never becomes easier to watch these siblings fall apart - every moment of stability and care is undercut by episodes like “America Decides,” in which one of the most vicious and poisonous fights between the surviving Roys occurs. It’s pretty fun when Kendall periodically remembers that he has kids - according to his ex-wife, Rava, their daughter Sophie has experienced a sharp increase in schoolyard bullying, thanks to the rhetoric being tossed around by Mencken and his camp. The Roy siblings are already on shaky ground at the start of the episode, with Shiv scheming with Matsson, Roman happily aligning with President-Elect Mencken, and Kendall ready to ditch Roman while simultaneously having a crisis about his parenthood, or lack there of. Like many details in this consistently excellent show, so many parts of the evening feel a little too familiar does the idea of an election featuring a loud, proud, right-wing candidate ring a bell? What about if those election results then became heavily contested, and a certain news channel gleefully added fuel to the fire for that candidate’s supporters? The eighth episode of Season 4 of Succession places us smack in the middle of election night stress at ATN: Tom is trying to keep a grasp on an increasingly chaotic newsroom, one that’s infiltrated by Roman, Kendall, and Shiv. ![]() America notoriously depends on free and fair elections, but what people might not be aware of is the fact that there’s some fine print that says if there’s a group of siblings in the midst of the shakiest alliance possible, all prepared to stab one another in the back at any moment, they’re actually allowed to sway the election results to suit their agenda and stop a less than stellar deal from happening.
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