Succession

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Are we ready to fuck or what?

This is how Kendall Roy (Jeremy Strong) opens a meeting in Celebration, the first episode ofSuccession.

Kendall can open a meeting with Are we ready to fuck or what?

for two reasons: One, hes the No.

After all, his chauffeur just called him the man downstairs.

Not exactly a sterling list of candidates.

It doesnt matter to Greg that Logan calls him Cousin Craig he answers to both names.

He gives the boy a piece as a joke: Take this back to your life.

What happens next is part of a subtle running theme of the episode.

Hes cleaning up after them.

The Roys always have someone cleaning up their messes.

And theyll never know who that person is.

Its music suited to contemporary American royalty, but with appropriately disquieting notes.

Waystars corporate slogan could use a polish.

Tom gets him a watch, which Logan treats with the precise amount of indifference as Shiv had warned.

Three years clearly isnt long enough to shake Kendalls reputation as a drug fiend.