The writers of Succession have by no means conditioned their viewers to think about Roman Roy as a very ethical character. However throughout final night time’s episode, the youngest of the Roy siblings had his personal “Daenerys Stormborn” second revealing he, greater than any of his kin, has inherited his father’s darkest urges. The person makes an attempt to singlehandedly resolve a whole presidential election in favor of a fascist. Whereas Shiv might produce other ulterior motives, she holds onto a minimum of some real concern for the thought of “democracy.” Kendall spends many of the episode conflicted and dazed, however finally pissed off he couldn’t discover a cleaner technique to “make a deal.” In the meantime, Roman, emboldened by a mad spell of spontaneous firings, makes an attempt to take management of world historical past by manipulation the election-night narrative to his favor. Whereas Logan apparently had a golden rule about staying off the newsroom ground on election night time, Roman feeds fringe speaking factors on to ATN’s on-air anchors behind everybody’s backs. Daenerys burnt down a metropolis with dragon hearth. Roman is making an attempt to topple the republic with pure Roy chutzpah.

The teaser for subsequent week’s penultimate episode finds Roman in a near-manic state, excessive off his brush with energy. Whereas it’s fairly doable that he may nonetheless by some means wind up the only real inheritor to his father’s legacy and firm, that might solely imply he’s now the Succession-verse’s latest mad king. Whereas the character’s final destiny continues to be up within the air (Gerri nonetheless has all of the instruments to tear him down with one single textual content message to some fictional model of Ronan Farrow), it’s fairly clear he’s not going to win the award for “least evil Roy sibling.”

This has been a very robust flip of occasions for Roman’s most devoted followers. Whereas he’s been the slimiest of Logan’s progeny, he’s additionally the infant of the bunch. His pure allure, pet canine eyes, and interior turmoil has attracted a type of fan in a really “I can repair him” approach. Whereas he’s clearly a 30-something wealthy child schmuck casually sexually harassing his basic counsel, many followers regard him as “babygirl.” They’re not taking it effectively. Right here, the perfect memes and responses to Roman’s darkish, darkish flip.