He threw away his grandfather’s $250 million because he saw the Roys’ wealth and decided he wanted more. Where the Roy kids have been soaked in Logan’s particular brand of business-by-shanking since they were born, though, Greg saw it from the outside and decided he wanted in. Granted, he’s been surrounded by bad people for a long time. He was always about to be crushed by the Roy machine, and yet he managed to just about stay out of danger.īut the drip-drip-drip of shitty behaviour and craven – as well as completely inept – manoeuvring from Greg this season feels totally different. Maybe you even nodded sagely at his opinions on California Pizza Kitchen. You rooted for him against the entitled Roys. He took company pastries home in doggy bags. When he was, as Kendall put it at the end of season one, a “little Machiavellian fuck,” he was the one transparently grasping outsider who made transparent grasping look cute. Now, Greg’s been the cuckoo in the nest from the very start. I mean! Greg! You shit! And then, as Kendall and Roman are unveiled as two extremely glum-looking interim CEOs, it’s Greg chanting: “Long live the king! And the other king!” While Roman goes to help – and get Kerry’s number, possibly to get a bit more info on his dad’s last days and work out whether Logan heard his exasperated voicemail before dropping his phone in the toilet – Greg stations himself next to Marcia and tuts: “Oh God, here come the waterworks.” Kerry’s makeup bag spills all over the floor. “Don’t look, Marcia, it’s too unpleasant.” It’s so distasteful,” Greg says, audibly clutching his pearls.
It’s all very reminiscent of Greg somehow managing to put himself between Logan and Marcia in the car all the way back in the first episode. Greg won’t stop pushing himself to the front of the queue though, hovering around Marcia when the genuinely distraught Kerry turns up to grab some bits she’d left in Logan’s room. Now, clearly, we’d all love to know what transformative plans the boy who has had absolutely no ideas apart from cravenly jumping onto whoever looks like the worst bet at any one time, has for a multi-billion dollar company, but it’s never going to happen.
The greybeards – Frank, Karl, Gerri – laugh in Greg’s face.
“And so perhaps,” Greg tries, “the natural conclusion might be I’d be his number two?” Kendall’s name is on the bit of paper as a possible head honcho – or the exact opposite, who knows – and Greg’s is on there too.
“In what fashion?” Possibly he sees his chance to head Waystar-Gregco possibly he fears being permanently ostracised from the family over the accidental sex tape. It was revealed that Greg’s name appears on Logan’s controversial will, which outline his final wishes for Waystar (if you can get past the doodles). Things got even worse in the fourth episode of the season. He’s the kind of guy who brings a date to his late uncle’s birthday party and talks about her as “another tick on the chart”. In fact, I’m just gonna say it: I think I hate Greg now. His vertigo at the “gamey, brainy hit” of deep-fried ortolan was ours.īut as season four rolls on, something is starting to crystallise. He was the breakout star of Succession’s breakout season, and a lifebuoy for us normies who were amazed by the lifestyles of New York’s rich and business-famous. The Cousin Greg love-in from the third season of Succession feels like a long time ago, doesn’t it? The menswear shoots, the fancams, the instinctive glee you felt whenever his awkward frame dribbled into view.
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