6. Does Your Office Have a Jargon Problem?
Kendall: “Greg, if I get taken out on other shit, I might need you to take my cultural temperature, OK?”
Greg: “Uh-huh. Got it. As in, what, what does that mean?”
Kendall: “You know, like before I get my media monitoring in place, I might need you to slide the sociopolitical thermometer up the nation’s ass and take a reading, OK? I’ll get seasick. Just feed me metadata, anything that’s going to move the market on me reputationally, yeah?”
—Kendall Roy and Greg Hirsch, Season 3, episode 1
Because Succession is a show about business, it is also a show about jargon. Conversations are paused when someone needs to “take a beat.” The handwritten stroke by which Logan lists Kendall as his successor (or, ...
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