Succession · Characters Ranked
Best Succession Characters, Ranked by IQ Score
Logan Roy's media empire. The Succession characters whose succession-warfare cognition drove the show, ranked.
Succession's character density is the canonical late-2010s / early-2020s prestige-TV achievement. Jesse Armstrong's commitment to letting each Roy family member's specific cognitive register (Kendall's strategic ambition meeting addiction, Roman's emotional-disorder-meeting-corporate-cognition, Shiv's tactical adaptability) operate inside Logan's institutional architecture is the rubric's high-bar contemporary character-ensemble work.
Anchor picks: Logan Roy, Brian Cox's canonical succession-patriarch. Roman Roy, Kieran Culkin's emotional-disorder-cognition.
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