Meadow Soprano and Shiv Roy are so similar it makes me sick.

These two women were born into wealth. They are go getting liberal leaning career girls. We are introduced to them as smart and ambitious women who have made a career outside the family business and believe themselves above it all.

Shiv is estranged from her mother. Meadow looks down on hers for being a housewife. They are both regarded as better than their brothers by their father.

These two women are aware of the ugliness beneath their respective families business. The Mafia for Meadow and the massive cover up of sexual abuse by Waystar Royco for Shiv.

Which is why they distance themselves away from any association in the beginning convincing themselves that they are morally correct and self righteous for doing so, even though it was their family name that mainly brought them so far in their careers.

Though try as they might to rebel against their fathers, doing anything leftist to displease their conservative patriarchs. The allure and glamour of the high end lifestyle their fathers provide through spilt blood is too much to resist.

In the end, Meadow and Shiv waltz back in to the arms of the family business they once derided. Justifying to themselves once again why their choice is acceptable and what their family does is reasonable.

I got Mommed.

Succession | 4.09 'Church and State'

SUCCESSION ▸ you talk about love?

SUCCESSION (2018–2023)

1x09 / 4x01

FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE - WITH EYES OPEN

thank you succession.

and if i speak…?

Kendall is Caroline’s Connor. Roman is her Shiv. Shiv is her Kendall. If you even care.

SUCCESSION 1x09 Pre-Nuptial Neither Caroline nor Shiv take him seriously 2x05 Tern Haven Huh. No one bought it. But still felt good for Roman to say.

Yeah. I mean, they don’t grow up emotionally stunted, do they?

SUCCESSION - 3x08 | 4x09

when the cycles of abuse start cycling or whatever

union of all time <3

friendship bracelets with mommy....

There's something to the picture that all this season and the release of the first three seasons' scripts have painted of Logan and Caroline's divorce not as one of maternal abandonment, but one of maternal dislocation and suffocating abuse that's ruining me right now.

The way Caroline tried to take her children and flee in the dead of the night to Morocco, the way Logan took meetings with every worth-its-salt law firm in the city to cut off Caroline's access to them, wielding the legal system like an axe to an umbilical cord, the way Caroline's one recourse was to try and keep their position in the company, to keep them with something even if she gave it away later as they rejected her in adulthood. The way she stayed for their adolescence in New York even as Logan froze her out, the way she had to bargain for Christmas even in their adulthood, the way she sat in the pews with the rest of the women Logan loved and hurt and discarded while her children cried, with no tools or ability to comfort them, the way she sat as her son wrote her out of her own motherhood as he gave their father sole credit in creating them, stood opposite her daughter as she told her she wouldn't see it, i'm just gonna do it the family way like it was on Caroline and not their father, that she never got to see them.

Something about the way it feels like Logan trained them how to bark at her scent, to make sure she stayed away from the door.