For all its fanfare & fame, this episode is a testimony that 'Succession' is as genuine a show as they come - it doesn't engage when it isn't ready. It doesn't subvert expectations for an extra glare. It doesn't act with the conceited grandiosity that a show of its caliber seemingly warrants. Instead, it grants subtle victories that you forgot you were rooting for (just before it dunks on those same victors). This show is a masterful display of patience & story-building & character-wrecking worthy of prestige TV fame & infamy all the same. A giant. I'll miss it almost as much as the Roy sibs clearly miss their patriarch.
Review of Church and State
