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TV Critic James Poniewozik on the Murdochs and 'Succession' | 11

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The Role of Logan Roy in Succession

The Roys are insulated from our mundane concerns in a lot of ways but they do have identifiable flaws and anxieties and weaknesses that I think makes a show like succession interesting and absorbing to watch on a human level. You know there is always this sense in this family of never being sure whether you're safe never being sure what your place isAlways the sense that you're being set in competition among your siblings and the other people around you. If there is something that is not necessarily redeeming about the Roy family but at least you know understandable and sympathetic about them. It's kind of the sense particularly among the Roy kids that they're kind of survivors of this collective trauma you know. This collective

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