How Succession's love affairs mirror the ephemeral partnerships of real-life media moguls
Almost immediately, Rhea begins seeding doubt about all of his children's suitability: "Shiv thinks she's smarter than she is. Roman could actually be good but nowhere near right now," she starts. "Kendall, I don't know, it's like you put him in a big-kid diaper and he can shit himself whenever he likes. He has all the shots but he doesn't know when to play them.
"[It'd be] like a rhino fucking a hummingbird," Roman Roy, speculating on what it would look like for his father to romance Rhea, says at one point in the episode — but throughout it, Rhea proves that her size belies a gargantuan ambition. Logan's relationships have always vaguely resembled those of News Corp founder Rupert Murdoch, who had a daughter with his first wife and three children with his second wife . "Return" deepens these connections: In order to secure his ex-wife's shares of Waystar for an upcoming, threatening shareholder vote, Logan reopens Caroline's divorce settlement, making it ever-richer and recalling the reported $1.
Caroline, ever-savvy, stirs up some filial resentment when she asks Logan to choose between a prized piece of real estate and losing his children for Christmas, or vice versa, in the ensuing negotiations; Logan chooses keeping his Hamptons estate.
The hackles raised by Rhea in "Return" also recall how a distrust of Deng, in particular, united Murdoch's often sparring children, as apublished earlier this year on Murdoch's succession struggles, reported. The final moments of "Return" set up a battle between the children and their father's new girlfriend when Shiv calls Kendall on the family's private jet to air her concerns about Rhea.
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