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Succession S3E6 REACTION - [Edited] (Patreon)

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2026-04-17 21:16:05
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Succession REACTION 3x6 “What It Takes” MARRIED COUPLE FIRST TIME REACTION | Breakdown + Review

The Roys are heading to Virginia to pick the next President of the United States. We’re reacting to Succession Season 3, Episode 6: “What It Takes.” At a conservative political conference, Logan is acting as kingmaker, vetting potential candidates to see who will protect Waystar from the DOJ. It’s a battle of ideologies between Shiv’s moderate pick and Roman’s fascination with a far-right firebrand, Jeryd Mencken. Meanwhile, Kendall is finding out that his "legal crusade" is falling apart as his evidence turns out to be thinner than he thought. Join us as we react to Tom’s late-night diner meeting with Kendall, the introduction of Mencken, and the chilling final photo that shows exactly where the family’s soul has gone. Intro: 00:00 Reaction: 01:37 Breakdown + Review: 34:34 What You’ll See in This Video Succession 3x06 reaction and live commentary Picking a President: The Roys "auditioning" the next leader of the free world Jeryd Mencken: Reacting to the arrival of the show’s most dangerous politician The Diner Meeting: Tom and Kendall’s heart-to-heart: "I've never seen Logan lose." Shiv’s Resistance: Watching her struggle with the family’s endorsement of a fascist Greg’s Legal Pivot: Greg asking Tom to take the fall for him The Ending: The chilling family photo with Mencken Keywords for SEO: succession reaction succession 3x06 reaction what it takes reaction succession season 3 episode 6 reaction jeryd mencken succession tom and kendall diner scene succession breakdown shiv roy resistance logan roy kingmaker Subscribe for more Succession reactions and HBO series commentary. #Succession #Reaction #HBOSeries #JerydMencken #TomWambsgans

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Perhaps you interpreted them "picking the next President" in this episode as literal, but what they were doing was deciding who to throw the donor support and media coverage behind, which plays an outsized role in politics, thus making figures like Logan Roy a "kingmaker." Maybe even more specifically, they were deciding if they would give media coverage and donor support to GOP establishment types, or go with with a figure like Jeryd Mencken, who has gained a populist following without traditional mainstream media. This was also a decision for what the editorial slant of ATN would be, as whoever they decide on will necessarily color every segment that will air on ATN down the stretch of the primaries, and if it's Mencken, that means leaning into far right talking points. And the deeper layer, is Logan is willing to trade political coverage and airtime for a handshake agreement from a nominee that will have the DOJ go soft on Waystar-Royco in their investigations, should they win the nomination. This is what the "interviews" are actually doing. I think you got caught up on some of the dialogue in thinking that these machinations cut out the democratic process, when what they are actually depicting is the enemours influence these power brokers and kingmakers have on said process. The Roy family taking a picture with the fringe candidate coming out of this convention is worth millions upon millions of dollars. THAT is the point here. It's a news story in and of itself, and it lends credibility to a figure that needs it to advance. I think you may have also thought that Super Tuesday meant voting was done? But that's not what the episode said (or how it works IRL). Super Tuesday is a big primary day because tons of states hold their primaries on that day, and it can be a huge signal for who will take the lead down the stretch. But it's not the end all be all or final say. Coming out of the 2008 Super Tuesday primary, Hillary Clinton actually still had a popular vote lead on Obama. And tying this back to the episode, they said they were coming out of Super Tuesday, the GOP still hasn't reached a threshold of delegates to name their nominee. So yes, primary voting is still happening, and debates still need to take place, but as the episode said, that is besides the point, as the Republican National Convention is where the delegate voting will happen (that actually chooses the nominee). But the RNC is where the public vote happens, the actual decisions for those delegates are made at events like this. The trading and networking that will happen here will influence the entire conservative media and party ecosystem. And we don't have to guess if this happens IRL. Much of what you see is based on the Murdocks and Fox, and there is a ton of reporting on how Rupert Murdock tried to push Ben Carson (establishment GOP) over Trump leading up to the 2015 Primaries, but later shifted and started to give Trump far more airtime than any other candidate when he saw the climate shifting. "Fox News gave GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump at least $29.7 million in free airtime from May 2015 through the end of the year. According to a previous Media Matters analysis, Trump far outpaced the other Republican presidential candidates in Fox News interview airtime in the second half of 2015. From May through December 15, Trump appeared on the network for nearly 23 hours -- no other candidate had more than 10 hours on the network during that time period." https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/fox-news-has-given-donald-trump-nearly-30-million-free-airtime-during-presidential And yes, there are real life secret donor/elite events like the one depicted in this episode that operates this way. The Council for National Policy is one. From wikipedia "The CNP has been described by The New York Times as "a little-known club of a few hundred of the most powerful conservatives in the country", who meet three times yearly behind closed doors at undisclosed locations for a confidential conference.[5] Max Blumenthal has called it a secretive organization that "networks wealthy right-wing donors together with top conservative operatives to plan long-term movement strategy". "In 1999, a speech given to the CNP by Republican candidate George W. Bush is credited with helping him gain the support of conservatives in his successful bid for the United States Presidency in 2000. The content of the speech has never been released by the CNP or by Bush." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_for_National_Policy We also know that the Murdock family, which the Roys were loosely based on, had falling outs, largely over differing opinions over how strongly they should support Trump and far right ideology on Fox. One of the Murdock kids who was vying to takeover Fox is famously anti-Trump, and spoke out against Nazis and how Fox covers the far right, which tracks fairly closely with what you are seeing with Shiv's character. Shiv is a lot of things that you never fail to call out, but she's not a white nationalist or wants her family company to directly anoint an open one. But I think the show is asking how much does that matter if she still takes the picture.

Evan

Yes, Mencken was referring to immigration and far more. He’s like a Steven Miller/Nick Fuentes type. Shiv is somewhat of a hypocrite for being willing to still participate in that choosing process while having any sort of moral qualms, but she’s essentially the everyman in being appalled at the idea of Mencken becoming the candidate. In regards to the context, the raisin is the current republican president in his first term. Due to ATN’s negative coverage of him (at Logan’s behest), he decided not to run for a second term. And that happened late in the election cycle, hence the urgent need to find a candidate.