'Succession' Season 3 Premiere Recap: Kendall Channels O.J. and Logan Wants Blood - The Daily Beast

As Kendall Roy plots the next moves in his latest coup against his father—who promises to go “full f*cking beast”—this season seems bound to explore just how “good” he really is.

1—shocked everyone last season by refusing to play the sacrificial lamb for his father, instead throwing Logan to the wolves at a press conference.

This season’s premiere finds Ken locked in a bathroom as a nervous Greg asks him to make even just a sound to confirm he’s alive.

It doesn’t take long , however, for Kendall to emerge—and as soon as he does, we observe father and son scheming in parallel, a prelude to the Machiavellian dance that threatens to knock the droopiest Roy child off his moralistic pedestal.

Kendall makes his escape in a black SUV with a stunned Greg and a frustrated Waystar attorney—whom he promptly kicks to the curb once she points out that he’s usurped a company vehicle that he might not actually be authorized to use, given the stunt he pulled just minutes ago.

During a heated call, in which another Waystar lackey is forced to play mediator in an expletive-laden game of telephone, Logan calls his son’s actions out for what they really are.

The moment she arrives, he proudly announces that he’s busy and asks Greg to help her settle in.

“All these brilliant fucking women, Greg,” Kendall says as top attorney Lisa Arthur arrives.

But even Lisa Arthur can’t escape the token role all women play in the World of Roy; as Kendall and Logan fight to win her over as their attorney, one gets the sense that she’s merely a flag on a rope in their ongoing tug-of-war.

Shiv, who calls Lisa a “friend,” is tasked with bringing her over to Logan’s side.

When the two meet, however, Shiv is less interested in recruiting Lisa for her father than she is in securing her as a “consigliere” for herself.

As unfazed as she seems by Lisa’s rejection of her father, Shiv explodes when she realizes that Lisa plans to take a meeting with Kendall rather than work with her.

Failing to win Lisa over eventually costs Shiv the coveted role of nominal CEO as Logan vows to step back in title only.

Roman, meanwhile, shoots himself in the foot when he calls Logan to ask for the job outright—and to suggest that if his father doesn’t believe he’s ready, perhaps “a couple years under the wing of an older hen could, you know, see me crack out of the old egg.”.