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* Bookends: The premiere and finale each feature scenes of the Roys paying off characters to keep quiet about certain indiscretions.


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* DoggedNiceGuy: Even being Shiv's longtime boyfriend, and fiance for the majority of Season 1, Tom still falls into moments like this.


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* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Shiv eventually reveals that this is the primary reason she began going out with Tom.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Shiv cheats on Tom with a colleague and old-flame repeatedly before their wedding.
** Played for laughs with Tom agonizing over how to conduct himself at the hedonistic bachelor party Roman set-up.
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* UptownGirl: Shiv is this to Tom, a fact that characters repeatedly use to stick a thorn in his side.
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* CloudCuckooLander: After a season of being more or less out-of-focus, Conner Roy, the eldest sibling, reveals himself to be this in the finale to the unease of everyone.

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* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: Kendall was loyal to Logan and had just completed a major deal for Waystar-Royco. He fully expected his father to name him the new CEO. Instead, Logan decides to stay on and treats Kendall as a failure. Fed up, Kendall tries to take over the company.



* OffTheWagon: Kendall has a history of drug abuse but has been clean for a while. However, Logan's actions cause him to go off the wagon and he is seen snorting lines of coke.



* ThickerThanWater: Ewan Roy seems to despise his brother Logan but he would never betray him. He is outraged when he finds out that Kendall and his siblings are conspiring against their father.

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Ewan Roy seems to despise his brother Logan but he would never betray him. He is outraged when he finds out that Kendall and his siblings are conspiring against their father.father.
** Greg is pretty much a stranger to Logan and his family but he is Ewan's grandson so he is given a job where he has access to Waystar-Royco's top executives and is used for sensitive tasks. He is a Roy so is assumed that he can be trusted and will not betray the family' secrets.
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* OddFriendship: After a few rough and tumble crises, Tom and Greg eventually develop a close bond.

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* OddFriendship: After a few rough and tumble crises, Tom Tom, an older executive with Waystar and Greg fiance of Logan's daughter, and Greg, a barely tolerated baby-face, eventually develop a close bond.
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** Tom is effectively treated as this by everyone in the family, which initially leads to some rivalry and conflict with Greg.


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* OddFriendship: After a few rough and tumble crises, Tom and Greg eventually develop a close bond.
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* NaiveNewcomer: Nathan is a Logan's great-nephew, but he grew up in a middle class setting and had little interaction with Logan's side of the family till his mother sends him to New York. He is now smack in the middle of all the Roy family drama but is not really a player in it yet. He is out of his depth and is quite bewildered by what is happening around him.
* {{Nepotism}}: Roman and Kendell have positions in Waystar-Royco because their father is the owner. While Kendell is a genuine executive who works hard to grow the company, Roman seems to do no work or have any responsibilities. Nathan is given an ambiguous job in the company because he is Logan's great-nephew.

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* NaiveNewcomer: Nathan Greg is a Logan's great-nephew, but he grew up in a middle class setting and had little interaction with Logan's side of the family till his mother sends him to New York. He is now smack in the middle of all the Roy family drama but is not really a player in it yet. He is out of his depth and is quite bewildered by what is happening around him.
* {{Nepotism}}: Roman and Kendell Kendall have positions in Waystar-Royco because their father is the owner. While Kendell Kendall is a genuine executive who works hard to grow the company, Roman seems to do no work or have any responsibilities. Nathan Greg is given an ambiguous job in the company because he is Logan's great-nephew.
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* ThickerThanWater: Ewan Roy seems to despise his brother Logan but he would never betray him. He is outraged when he finds out that Kendall and his siblings are conspiring against their father.
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* NaiveNewcomer: Nathan is a Logan's great-nephew but he grew up in a middle class setting and had little interaction with Logan's side of the family till his mother sends him to New York. He is now smack in the middle of all the Roy family drama but is not really a player in it yet. He is out of his depth and is quite bewildered by what is happening around him.
* Nepotism: Roman and Kendell have position in Waystar-Royco because their father is the owner. While Kendell is a genuine executive who works hard to grow the company, Roman seems to do no work and have no responsibilities. Nathan is given an ambiguous job in the company because he is Logan's great-nephew.

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* NaiveNewcomer: Nathan is a Logan's great-nephew great-nephew, but he grew up in a middle class setting and had little interaction with Logan's side of the family till his mother sends him to New York. He is now smack in the middle of all the Roy family drama but is not really a player in it yet. He is out of his depth and is quite bewildered by what is happening around him.
* Nepotism: {{Nepotism}}: Roman and Kendell have position positions in Waystar-Royco because their father is the owner. While Kendell is a genuine executive who works hard to grow the company, Roman seems to do no work and or have no any responsibilities. Nathan is given an ambiguous job in the company because he is Logan's great-nephew.
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* NaiveNewcomer: Nathan is a Logan's great-nephew but he grew up in a middle class setting and had little interaction with Logan's side of the family till his mother sends him to New York. He is now smack in the middle of all the Roy family drama but is not really a player in it yet. He is out of his depth and is quite bewildered by what is happening around him.
* Nepotism: Roman and Kendell have position in Waystar-Royco because their father is the owner. While Kendell is a genuine executive who works hard to grow the company, Roman seems to do no work and have no responsibilities. Nathan is given an ambiguous job in the company because he is Logan's great-nephew.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Roman comes across as the most laid-back and approachable Roy sibling in the first episode, until he offers $1 million to a lower-class Little League player (with his parents watching) if he hits a home run and forces him to sign an NDA when he fails, likely traumatizing him in the process. And he does it because he's bored.
** Shiv is a political consultant for a liberal populist presidential candidate and tries to come across as a GranolaGirl, but she is just as near-sociopathic as the rest of her family.
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* SuccessionCrisis: It's even alluded to by the title. Logan postpones his retirement because he considers none of his four children as suitable heirs to his vast media empire, and the children repeatedly demonstrate this with their squabbling over who gets what and their dickish behavior in general.
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* PlausibleDeniability: Tom discovers that the cruise line division is conducting a criminal coverup of the fact that their ships are plagued by systematic sexual harassment. He is legally required to report this to the authorities but if he does then it will cost Waystar-Royco millions in lawsuits and lost revenue. He lampshades the fact that by being so diligent he cost himself plausible deniability. If he stopped looking when he realized that something fishy was going on, he could truthfully say that he had no knowledge of any specific wrongdoing. Now, if he is ever forced to testify on the matter, he will be committing perjury if he denies knowledge. Similarly, if Tom tells anyone about what he found, that person will lose plausible deniability and will become part of the conspiracy.
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A 2018 satirical drama from Creator/{{HBO}} and writer Jesse Armstrong of ''Series/TheThickOfIt''. It focuses on media baron Logan Roy (Creator/BrianCox), his four dysfunctional children -- Connor (Alan Ruck), Roman (Kieran Culkin), Kendall (Jeremy Strong), and Siobahn, a.k.a. "Shiv" (Sarah Snook) -- and their struggle to decide how to divide Logan's conglomerate, Waystar-Royco. But the Roy family's uber-wealth has made them all self-absorbed and divorced from reality, which inevitably complicates their relationships with each other and the world around them.

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A 2018 satirical drama from Creator/{{HBO}} and writer Jesse Armstrong of ''Series/TheThickOfIt''. It focuses on media baron Logan Roy (Creator/BrianCox), his four dysfunctional children -- Connor (Alan Ruck), Roman (Kieran Culkin), Kendall (Jeremy Strong), and Siobahn, a.k.a. "Shiv" (Sarah Snook) -- and their struggle to decide how to divide Logan's conglomerate, Waystar-Royco. But the Roy family's uber-wealth massive wealth has made them all self-absorbed and divorced from reality, which inevitably complicates their relationships with each other and the world around them.
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A 2018 satirical drama from Creator/{{HBO}} and writer Jesse Armstrong of ''Series/TheThickOfIt''. It focuses on media baron Logan Roy (Creator/BrianCox), his four dysfunctional children -- Connor (Alan Ruck), Roman (Kieran Culkin), Kendall (Jeremy Strong), and Siobahn, a.k.a. "Shiv" (Sarah Snook) -- and their struggle to decide how to divide Logan's conglomerate, Waystar-Royco. It quickly becomes apparent that their uber-wealth has made them all self-absorbed and divorced from reality, which inevitably complicates their relationships with each other.

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A 2018 satirical drama from Creator/{{HBO}} and writer Jesse Armstrong of ''Series/TheThickOfIt''. It focuses on media baron Logan Roy (Creator/BrianCox), his four dysfunctional children -- Connor (Alan Ruck), Roman (Kieran Culkin), Kendall (Jeremy Strong), and Siobahn, a.k.a. "Shiv" (Sarah Snook) -- and their struggle to decide how to divide Logan's conglomerate, Waystar-Royco. It quickly becomes apparent that their But the Roy family's uber-wealth has made them all self-absorbed and divorced from reality, which inevitably complicates their relationships with each other.
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A 2018 satirical drama from Creator/{{HBO}} and writer Jesse Armstrong of ''Series/TheThickOfIt''. It focuses on media baron Logan Roy (Creator/BrianCox), his four dysfunctional children -- Connor (Alan Ruck), Roman (Kieran Culkin), Kendall (Jeremy Strong), and Siobahn, a.k.a. "Shiv" (Sarah Snook) -- and their struggle to decide how to divide Logan's business empire, Waystar-Royco. It quickly becomes apparent that their uber-wealth has made them all self-absorbed and divorced from reality, which inevitably complicates their relationships with each other.

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A 2018 satirical drama from Creator/{{HBO}} and writer Jesse Armstrong of ''Series/TheThickOfIt''. It focuses on media baron Logan Roy (Creator/BrianCox), his four dysfunctional children -- Connor (Alan Ruck), Roman (Kieran Culkin), Kendall (Jeremy Strong), and Siobahn, a.k.a. "Shiv" (Sarah Snook) -- and their struggle to decide how to divide Logan's business empire, conglomerate, Waystar-Royco. It quickly becomes apparent that their uber-wealth has made them all self-absorbed and divorced from reality, which inevitably complicates their relationships with each other.



* AbusiveParents: Logan's presence was scarce when his children were growing up, and he was the most pleasant or supportive figure when he ''was'' around. It was this and them being spoiled by too much money that made the Roy children such narcissistic {{JerkAss}}es as adults.

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* AbusiveParents: Logan's presence was scarce when his children were growing up, and he was not the most pleasant or supportive figure when he ''was'' around. It was this and them being spoiled by too much money that made the Roy children such narcissistic {{JerkAss}}es as adults.



* InadequateInheritor: The plot is kicked off by Logan planning to retire but then deciding that none of his children are suited to run his empire so he decides to postpone his retirement. Kendall, who was supposed to become the new head of the company takes it extremely badly.

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* InadequateInheritor: The plot is kicked off by Logan planning to retire but then deciding that none of his children are suited to run his empire empire, so he decides to postpone his retirement. Kendall, who was supposed to become the new head of the company Waystar-Royco, takes it extremely badly.
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* InadequateInheritor: The plot is kicked off by Logan planning to retire but then deciding that none of his children are suited to run his empire so he decides to postpone his retirement. Kendall, who was supposed to become the new head of the company takes it extremely badly.
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* AbusiveParents: Logan's presence was scarce when his children were growing up, and he was the most pleasant or supportive figure when he ''was'' around. It was this and them being spoiled by too much money that made the Roy children such narcissistic JerkAsses as adults.

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* AbusiveParents: Logan's presence was scarce when his children were growing up, and he was the most pleasant or supportive figure when he ''was'' around. It was this and them being spoiled by too much money that made the Roy children such narcissistic JerkAsses {{JerkAss}}es as adults.



* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The Roy family are broadly based on Creator/RupertMurdoch and his children.

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A 2018 satirical drama from Creator/{{HBO}}, focusing on media baron Logan Roy (Creator/BrianCox), his four dysfunctional children -- Connor (Alan Ruck), Roman (Kieran Culkin), Kendall (Jeremy Strong), and Siobahn (Sarah Snook) -- and their struggle to decide to divide Logan's business empire, Waystar-Royco, amongst themselves after he has a stroke. It quickly becomes apparent that their uber-wealth has made them all self-absorbed and divorced from reality to varying degrees, which inevitably complicates their relationships with each other.

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A 2018 satirical drama from Creator/{{HBO}}, focusing Creator/{{HBO}} and writer Jesse Armstrong of ''Series/TheThickOfIt''. It focuses on media baron Logan Roy (Creator/BrianCox), his four dysfunctional children -- Connor (Alan Ruck), Roman (Kieran Culkin), Kendall (Jeremy Strong), and Siobahn Siobahn, a.k.a. "Shiv" (Sarah Snook) -- and their struggle to decide how to divide Logan's business empire, Waystar-Royco, amongst themselves after he has a stroke. Waystar-Royco. It quickly becomes apparent that their uber-wealth has made them all self-absorbed and divorced from reality to varying degrees, reality, which inevitably complicates their relationships with each other.other.

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* AbusiveParents: Logan's presence was scarce when his children were growing up, and he was the most pleasant or supportive figure when he ''was'' around. It was this and them being spoiled by too much money that made the Roy children such narcissistic JerkAsses as adults.
* ComedicSociopathy: You could count on one hand the characters who ''don't'' exhibit this.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The Roy family are broadly based on Creator/RupertMurdoch and his children.
** Gil Eavis, who Shiv is supporting for president, is pretty clearly based on Bernie Sanders.
* VillainProtagonist: The show makes clear that, while they do show flashes of humanity for each other, the Roys are not good people and essentially regard everyone beneath their class as subhumans to be either bartered or exploited.
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A 2018 satirical drama from Creator/{{HBO}}, focusing on media baron Logan Roy (Creator/BrianCox), his four dysfunctional children -- Connor (Alan Ruck), Roman (Kieran Culkin), Kendall (Jeremy Strong), and Siobahn (Sarah Snook) -- and their struggle to decide to divide Logan's business empire among themselves after he has a stroke. It quickly becomes apparent that their uber-wealth has made them all self-absorbed and divorced from reality to varying degrees, which inevitably complicates their relationships with each other.

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A 2018 satirical drama from Creator/{{HBO}}, focusing on media baron Logan Roy (Creator/BrianCox), his four dysfunctional children -- Connor (Alan Ruck), Roman (Kieran Culkin), Kendall (Jeremy Strong), and Siobahn (Sarah Snook) -- and their struggle to decide to divide Logan's business empire among empire, Waystar-Royco, amongst themselves after he has a stroke. It quickly becomes apparent that their uber-wealth has made them all self-absorbed and divorced from reality to varying degrees, which inevitably complicates their relationships with each other.
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A 2018 comedy-drama from Creator/{{HBO}}, focusing on media baron Logan Roy (Creator/BrianCox), his four dysfunctional children -- Connor (Alan Ruck), Roman (Kieran Culkin), Kendall (Jeremy Strong), and Siobahn (Sarah Snook) -- and their struggle to decide to divide Logan's business empire among themselves after he has a stroke. It quickly becomes apparent that their uber-wealth has made them all self-absorbed and divorced from reality to varying degrees, which inevitably complicates their relationships with each other.

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A 2018 comedy-drama satirical drama from Creator/{{HBO}}, focusing on media baron Logan Roy (Creator/BrianCox), his four dysfunctional children -- Connor (Alan Ruck), Roman (Kieran Culkin), Kendall (Jeremy Strong), and Siobahn (Sarah Snook) -- and their struggle to decide to divide Logan's business empire among themselves after he has a stroke. It quickly becomes apparent that their uber-wealth has made them all self-absorbed and divorced from reality to varying degrees, which inevitably complicates their relationships with each other.
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A 2018 comedy-drama from Creator/{{HBO}}, focusing on aging media baron Logan Roy (Creator/BrianCox), his four grown children -- Connor (Alan Ruck), Roman (Kieran Culkin), Kendall (Jeremy Strong), and Siobahn (Sarah Snook) -- and their struggle to decide to divide Logan's business empire among themselves after he has a stroke. It quickly becomes apparent that their uber-wealth has made them all self-absorbed and divorced from reality to varying degrees, which inevitably complicates their relationships with each other.

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A 2018 comedy-drama from Creator/{{HBO}}, focusing on aging media baron Logan Roy (Creator/BrianCox), his four grown dysfunctional children -- Connor (Alan Ruck), Roman (Kieran Culkin), Kendall (Jeremy Strong), and Siobahn (Sarah Snook) -- and their struggle to decide to divide Logan's business empire among themselves after he has a stroke. It quickly becomes apparent that their uber-wealth has made them all self-absorbed and divorced from reality to varying degrees, which inevitably complicates their relationships with each other.
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A 2018 comedy-drama from Creator/{{HBO}}, focusing on aging media baron Logan Roy (Creator/BrianCox), his four grown children -- Connor (Alan Ruck), Roman (Kieran Culkin), Kendall (Jeremy Strong), and Siobahn (Sarah Snook) -- and their struggle to contemplate to divide Logan's business empire among themselves after he has a stroke. It quickly becomes apparent that their uber-wealth has made them all self-absorbed and divorced from reality to varying degrees, which inevitably complicates their relationships with each other.

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A 2018 comedy-drama from Creator/{{HBO}}, focusing on aging media baron Logan Roy (Creator/BrianCox), his four grown children -- Connor (Alan Ruck), Roman (Kieran Culkin), Kendall (Jeremy Strong), and Siobahn (Sarah Snook) -- and their struggle to contemplate decide to divide Logan's business empire among themselves after he has a stroke. It quickly becomes apparent that their uber-wealth has made them all self-absorbed and divorced from reality to varying degrees, which inevitably complicates their relationships with each other.

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