It doesn’t help that, instead of actually parenting his daughter, Kendall’s sicced a black SUV on his family to track and “protect” their every move. And Kendall is careening wildly in the middle, plagued with guilt over the world he’d beget his daughter, Sophie, should the racists win, but equally set on eclipsing his father and turning Waystar Royco into a monstrous behemoth with his fingers twisted in the reins. Shiv is pretending to campaign on behalf of Jiménez, the supposedly sensible Democrat opponent, when really she’s aiding Matsson behind the scenes.
Roman is working the Mencken angle, sure that if ATN cinches the election for the Nazi-adjacent conservative that he’ll deliver Lukas Matsson into their grubby mitts. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to playįrom the outset of “America Decides,” everyone has a scheme.
Still, when Tom word-vomits his anxieties onto Greg in the first scene of episode 8, it’s easy to miss the clip of Mencken playing behind them as the foreshadowing it is. That’s the story showrunner Jesse Armstrong has been telling from the beginning, and he’s never tried to pretend otherwise. There should’ve been no doubts going into tonight’s episode that Jeryd Mencken would win, and that the Roys would be largely to thank (or, depending on your perspective, blame). I find Succession’s continual ability to shock a profound characteristic of its impact, given that the series follows such obvious narrative patterns. Roman says as much at the end of the episode, after having helped elect the far-right candidate that could ostensibly crash the GoJo deal: “We just made a night of good TV. The echoes of both the 20 presidential elections are so shrill as to be hellish, yet it’s as impossible as ever to press the dial. But can you really call it cynicism if it’s just honesty? The episode takes an unflinching-if, as befits a show like Succession, juiced-up-look at not only what happens on election night in America but what’s already happened. A cynicism that’s frankly awe-inspiring drips through every scene of “America Decides,” the eighth episode of what’s shaping up to be Succession’s best season.
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