Do you remember what you were doing on Memorial Day? Reclining by the sea, reading a breezy novel, smoking some processed meats? Vulture’s TV team spent the holiday gathered around their TV screens and hunched over laptops, assiduously analyzing Succession’s checkmate. If you were too busy applying sunscreen to scroll Vulture (shame on you, really), or you’re simply spending the holidays revisiting the television event of the year, now’s the time to read Kathryn VanArendonk’s defining essay on the series, which makes a simple, brilliant argument — and one that rewards all those rewatches: Succession was as much about the Roys as it was your interpretation of it.

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