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Succession – Season 2, Episode 1 The Summer Palace

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Succession – Season 2, Episode 1

The Summer Palace

Aired Aug 11, 2019

Drama

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Kendall tries to make amends with his father for his takeover attempt betrayal; Logan receives some unvarnished advice from his financial banker about the next best move for Waystar Royco; Tom maneuvers for a new position in the company.

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Fast-paced, savage, and surprisingly tragic, the one percent continues to commit unspeakable atrocities to one another in the entertaining "The Summer Palace."

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Brendan Klinkenberg

Rolling Stone

08/19/2019

The show wasted no time in getting back to fifth gear.

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Emily St. James

Vox

08/19/2019

[Succession] celebrates wealth in the way American pop culture always has -- but it also always understands who's being flattened beneath the family's boots. It's a dark, yet beautiful, vision of the world.

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Scott Tobias

New York Magazine/Vulture

08/19/2019

5/5

We laugh at these characters every week, but one of the remarkable aspects about Succession is that it has the pull of Shakespearean tragedy, too.

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Andrew Husband

Den of Geek

08/20/2019

[Succession] has expertly portrayed, vilified and satirized the comings and goings of modern and past figures like the Murdochs and the Hearsts from day one.

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Kevin Lever

Tell-Tale TV

08/19/2019

4.5/5

Succession Season 2 Episode 1, The Summer Palace, continues to be a shining example that horrible people being horrible to each other is strangely compelling.

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Miles Surrey

The Ringer

08/19/2019

More than anything, the early introduction of the Shiv-as-Waystar-Successor plan really means there's ample time for [it] to hit the fan. So, uh, congrats to her?

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Synopsis

Kendall tries to make amends with his father for his takeover attempt betrayal; Logan receives some unvarnished advice from his financial banker about the next best move for Waystar Royco; Tom maneuvers for a new position in the company.

Director: Mark Mylod
Creator: Jesse Armstrong
Executive Producer: Jesse Armstrong, Adam McKay, Frank Rich, Kevin J. Messick, Will Ferrell, Jane Tranter, Mark Mylod
Screenwriter: Jesse Armstrong
Network: HBO
Rating: TV-MA
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date: Aug 11, 2019