something interesting about succession that I've rarely seen these Eat the Rich movies do is that it completely lacks the figure of the benevolent commoner who raised the children and cares for the estate and works beyond his paycheck because underneath it all he thinks of them as his family, or even just the selfless man who handles all of the family's dirty business - sure, a figure that's mostly associated with aristocracy, but not exclusively, and in any case it's absent on both logan's and caroline's side. colin is omnipresent in the show if you look but it never attempts to describe their relationship in any terms but financial - most emotion there is disinterest, or fear of the power imbalance. jess sees a better opportunity away from kendall and takes it. you can't come from the show thinking that any of the siblings' relationship to people can be unaffected by their status (or that its effects can be even mildly mitigated by "genuine" affection, whatever that means) despite all 4 of them'a clear and repeated insistence to the contrary. like these people don't love you and never will lol and no one is going down with your ship if they can help it cause you wouldn't either
