You get a glimpse into lives that feel out of reach you see the characters’ luxury Maui resorts, their NorCal wellness retreats, their uptown Manhattan townhomes, their waterfront manses in the Hamptons and Monterey. S uccession’s supreme dedication to the internal logic and realism of the world its characters inhabit is shared by a few other prestige dramas that have seduced audiences and dominated the cultural conversation in recent years: Big Little Lies, The Undoing, The White Lotus, and Nine Perfect Strangers. I think that also helps make them feel a little less grounded as people-that what they really wish for Logan’s approval. “ the objects in these houses feel expensive but not necessarily like they have been chosen by Logan or Marcia or Shiv or Tom themselves,” he adds. The interiors are designed to convey a sense of corporate soullessness as well. He has disclosed that the World Trade Center was chosen as Waystar Royco HQ in part because they could make up a very Roy backstory about it: They got the offices at a bargain price following 9/11. “One of the ways that we tried to portray wealth, without fetishizing it necessarily, is to put in a lot of space, because in New York City you don’t get space without spending buck,” says the show’s production designer, Stephen H. 0001 percent: Logan Roy’s sprawling Upper East Side duplex, an English castle for Shiv’s wedding to Tom (Matthew Macfadyen), the way-high-up spartan glass World Trade Center offices that house the Waystar Royco C suite, and, in season three, the Villa Cetinale, a 17th-century Baroque villa in Tuscany, as the site of a Roy family vacation. Succession’s universe encompasses the rarefied spaces occupied by the. “You feel you’re in this complete universe of Succession. “They have text conversations made up on the phone between Gerri and Roman,” she explains. That carefully calibrated attention to detail, Smith-Cameron says, even extends to Gerri’s cell phone. My prop computer was loaded with emails from people in the show. “You feel you’re in this complete universe of Succession,” Smith-Cameron says. What the audience doesn’t see is that Gerri’s laptop is set up with Waystar Royco email, and her inbox is starting to fill up with congratulatory emails.
Roman walks into an adjoining room to call his sister, Shiv (Sarah Snook), and in the background Gerri opens up her laptop.
Roy’s youngest son, Roman (Kieran Culkin), who is also enmeshed in a delicious tryst with Gerri, is there when Gerri gets the call. The scene plays out in a luxurious but otherwise unremarkable, chilly hotel suite. Smith-Cameron)-the only candidate to succeed Roy who is not a family member-as his interim replacement.
Fending off challenges from his needy, megalomaniacal children, Murdochian mogul Logan Roy (Brian Cox) throws them all a curveball by temporarily stepping down as CEO of Waystar Royco and naming the company’s dutiful general counsel, Gerri Kellman (J. The first episode of the highly anticipated third season of Succession, HBO’s black comedy about members of a billionaire family vying for control of their News Corp–like media empire, ends, appropriately, with a power move.
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