People say he smirked. I have played and replayed it and there’s no smirk. It’s the best scene, in the best series of Succession. The final scene in Season 2.In analogy no less grandiloquent than the prophet Abraham’s sacrifice of his son to please God, the patriarch Logan Roy, with the willing collaboration of his craven, dysfunctional family, sacrifices his son Kendall to a Committee of Investigation into sexual abuse at the media company’s cruise arm.Satisfied with their brutal decision, the family sits down, champagne flutes in hand, to watch the cruel ritual on television. But Kendall turns the altar…

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