The Disruption (Succession)
Kendall becomes increasingly self-conscious about his public image, giving various interviews to the press and vigilantly monitoring his social media presence.
Kendall gives a speech at a charity dinner, which Shiv (now Waystar's President of Domestic Operations) attends on Logan's behalf.
At an after-party, Kendall and his associates watch a newly aired segment from The Disruption, a late-night talk show whose host Sophie Iwobi frequently disparages him.
Logan unconvincingly claims that nothing in the stolen cruises documents incriminates him for serious wrongdoing and that he was only protecting his children, but Shiv warns that law enforcement has the power to implicate him in the cover-up.
However, Kendall sabotages the event by having his assistants purchase speakers and blast Nirvana's "Rape Me" at full volume in the middle of Shiv's speech.
The character was initially written as a parody of Samantha Bee, but was reworked by showrunner Jesse Armstrong to fit Fumudoh's personality after she successfully auditioned for the role.
The fictional series The Disruption bears similarities to both Bee's Full Frontal and Fumudoh's own late-night talk show Ziwe.
[1] The episode became notable for the use of Nirvana's "Rape Me", which Kendall has his assistants play on a loudspeaker to sabotage Shiv's company town hall event.
Hadadi highlighted how the episode drew Kendall and Shiv's personal conflicts to the forefront, and praised Yan's direction for "tempering" the series's typical visual style, writing: "Less-aggressive zooms, fewer round-robin-style edits to capture everyone’s reactions, and a longer hold on certain compositions that purposefully mirrored their subjects helped slow down the episode in scenes that needed a certain sense of melancholy.
"[5] Scott Tobias of Vulture gave the episode 4 out of 5 stars, praising Jeremy Strong's depiction of Kendall as "a complex fusion of strategy, egotism, and childlike neediness and vulnerability that’s simultaneously pathetic and heartbreaking.
The site wrote, "All season long on HBO's riveting prestige drama, Kendall Roy has been on a crusade to take down his father Logan, confidently charging forward at a breathless pace and rattling off dense torrents of corporate buzzwords.
