“Coronation Demolition Derby”: Succession Season 4, Episode 4

Photograph courtesy of David M. Russell, HBO

Last week I compared Kendall Roy to Shakespeare’s Prince Hal. When we first meet Hal in Henry IV Part I, he’s a drunken layabout who hangs out all day at the Boards Head Tavern with Sir John Falstaff, and doesn’t seem to have the stuff great leaders are made of. However, when his father dies and Hal becomes King Henry V, he rises to the occasion, leading the British army to victory at…