The Italian villa dinner scene between right wing media magnate Logan Roy and his son Kendall in the most recent episode of "Succession" is a very great piece of drama and a portrait of, well, of... humanity on the precipice in 2021. The background - Conniving, lost shitbag son Roman is sufficiently cynical to want to replicate the role of his "master of the world" father. Grasping-to-define-herself daughter Siobhan is trying to insert herself into the male-dominated, brutish media company of her father, but cannot seem to make it work for her or be fully accepted into the asshole boys club. Chronically directionless son Connor is making a quixotic run at the presidency as a harebrained way to define himself in late middle age. While son Kendall, after attempting to compete against his father in the media universe, is now negotiating with his him to get out, definitively, from the family business and cut all ties with his father. He realizes he is just not sufficiently a "killer" (as both Logan Roy and Donald Trump describe such characters) to exist in that world. He wants a payout and to cash out his shares and move on. He seems trapped between the proverbial rock and a hard place - unsure if he has any skills that will permit him to do something else, but sure the remaining in the world of corporate cut-throats is definitively not for him.
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