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Succession – Season 2, Episode 5 Tern Haven

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Succession – Season 2, Episode 5

Tern Haven

Aired Oct 25, 2025

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Logan attempts to solidify his buyout of PGM at a weekend retreat at the Pierce family home; Shiv, Roman and Connor veer from their carefully orchestrated roles; the Pierces question whether an alliance with Waystar Royco will tarnish their legacy.

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Cultural and political differences collide when the elder Roy struggles to convince the Pierce family to hand over their crown jewels in the highly fascinating, intensely devastating "Tern Haven."

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Roxana Hadadi

Pajiba

09/19/2019

What Succession shows excellently is that the Pierces and the Roys, for all their surface differences, for Nan Pierce's grand speech about 'virtue,' are just the same.

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Meredith Haggerty

Vox

09/09/2019

Sarah Snook's face! Her beautiful, twitching, confident, insecure, glassy-eyed face in that opening scene just murdered me. She was cocky and scared and sick and buzzing, all in waves, all at once. It was a feat.

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Emily St. James

Vox

09/09/2019

The Roys' pursuit of Pierce is one of the major storytelling thrusts of this season, but each episode both reveals new information about Pierce and provides a new way for them to cast one of the Roy siblings into relief.

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Clint Worthington

The Spool

10/07/2019

The tragic thing about Shiv's preternatural gift for obfuscation is that you, like Kira, want to believe her so badly.

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Carissa Pavlica

TV Fanatic

09/09/2019

4.25/5.0

There are a lot of places for Succession to go even without the purchase of Pierce.

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Miles Surrey

The Ringer

09/09/2019

There's something comforting about the way the Roys wear their awfulness on their sleeves. The Pierce clan doesn't say anything damning, but they come across as hungry vultures eating up the Roy dysfunction.

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Synopsis

Logan attempts to solidify his buyout of PGM at a weekend retreat at the Pierce family home; Shiv, Roman and Connor veer from their carefully orchestrated roles; the Pierces question whether an alliance with Waystar Royco will tarnish their legacy.

Director: Mark Mylod
Creator: Jesse Armstrong
Executive Producer: Adam McKay, Frank Rich, Kevin J. Messick, Will Ferrell, Jane Tranter
Screenwriter: Will Tracy
Network: HBO
Rating: TV-MA
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date: Oct 25, 2025