[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “Succession” Season 2, Episode 3, “Hunting.”]
There is a scene in the third episode of “Succession” that so perfectly embodies the debilitating, humiliating, and altogether obscene world Logan Roy rules, it’s almost too on the nose to be taken seriously. Both unforgettably toxic and absurdly funny, the scene barrels through the story’s climax with an unstoppable velocity — like a boulder in a pinball machine, picking off one family member or Waystar employee at a time, while Logan stands tall hammering the flippers.
I’m speaking, of course, of Boar on the Floor.
Is it a real game? Is it conjured at will from the day’s hunt? Is it tactic he’s used before? It’s tempting to answer as Tom did — “How the fuck would I know, Greg? You think I have a rational explanation for this?” — or to accept Logan’s chaos-inviting first response — “Greg, you know something? There are no fucking rules.
There is a scene in the third episode of “Succession” that so perfectly embodies the debilitating, humiliating, and altogether obscene world Logan Roy rules, it’s almost too on the nose to be taken seriously. Both unforgettably toxic and absurdly funny, the scene barrels through the story’s climax with an unstoppable velocity — like a boulder in a pinball machine, picking off one family member or Waystar employee at a time, while Logan stands tall hammering the flippers.
I’m speaking, of course, of Boar on the Floor.
Is it a real game? Is it conjured at will from the day’s hunt? Is it tactic he’s used before? It’s tempting to answer as Tom did — “How the fuck would I know, Greg? You think I have a rational explanation for this?” — or to accept Logan’s chaos-inviting first response — “Greg, you know something? There are no fucking rules.
- 8/26/2019
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
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