![]() Romulus and Remus: It’s been unclear from the start which Logan boy is meant to stand in for which famous Murdoch son. He, at least, has the decency to appear completely broken by the whole experience. Senate, Kendall is not only back at work for his father, but has been given a promotion. ![]() In this week’s episode of Succession, Roy family fixer Colin ( Scott Nicholson) ran down all the ways in which Kendall’s tracks had been covered and also revealed that the waiter who died in the crash had “unclipped his seatbelt so he survived long enough to do that.” (According to one version of the Chappaquiddick incident, Kopechne died from suffocation rather than drowning meaning she may have survived in a trapped pocket of air under the water.) But just as Kennedy survived the Chappaquiddick accident to go on to an illustrious career in the U.S. In 2018, in the wake of a new film titled Chappaquiddick, the Smithsonian published an article titled “ Why the True Story of Chappaquiddick Is Impossible to Tell” detailing how Kennedy’s delay-and his lack of motivation to tell the truth-casts doubt on everything we think we know about the accident. when Kennedy finally reported the accident to police. The next morning, he “calmly discussed boating” with a local businessman and entertained his invitation to breakfast until 9 a.m. After their failed attempts, Kennedy returned to the Shiretown Inn in Edgartown, changed his clothes, and made a strange noise complaint to the owner. Rather than immediately alerting the authorities, Kennedy hiked back to the party, and told two friends-his cousin Joe Gargan and former district attorney Paul Markham-who accompanied him back to the pond to try to save his passenger: 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne. Kendall, at least, made a few half-hearted attempts to rescue the waiter who had been riding with him last season but, crucially, we may never know what Kennedy tried to do. In both cases, the rich son of an influential man fled the scene while a less affluent passenger drowned. But for a rundown the real-life inspirations behind the Season 2 premiere, you can scroll down below.Ĭhappaquiddick: It’s unlikely anyone missed the parallels between Kendall Roy’s car accident at the end of season one and Ted Kennedy’s infamous 1969 crash. For a deep dive into the entire episode, you can listen to the latest installment of Vanity Fair’s Still Watching podcast. Not every scene is ripped from the headlines-Armstrong has said that’s not his preferred method of storytelling-but the writers have made no secret that some of the most powerful families in the world including the Murdochs, the Redstones, the Windsors, and, yes, the Trumps have inspired the antics of the Roy family and those near and dear to them. But one specific treat of Succession-the thing that has reportedly made it a smash hit among billionaires and media moguls-is the true stories of real-life power players behaving badly that sneak into the script. The family is as delightfully dysfunctional as ever and the zingers are, perhaps, even sharper a second time around. With media mogul and abusive patriarch Logan Roy ( Brian Cox) still at the head of Waystar-Royco and his children Kendall ( Jeremy Strong), Siobhan ( Sarah Snook), Roman ( Kieran Culkin), and Connor ( Alan Ruck) still scrabbling over their portion of his legacy, any question of whether Jesse Armstrong’s surprise summer hit from last year could recapture lightning in a bottle was quickly put to rest. ![]() On Sunday night the New York-based battle of the Roy family came roaring back to life with Succession’s second season on HBO. This post contains frank discussion of Succession Season Two, Episode One “The Summer Palace.” Proceed with care. ![]()
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