Succession’s best supporting characters: an ode to Mencken, Gerri, and other personalities.

 

Succession has no shortage of memorable personalities. At its heart, the HBO series about a business scion and his squabbling children is a character study, one that has produced some of the most richly fleshed-out figures to grace our screens in years. But while much ink has been devoted to the complexities of Logan, Kendall, Roman, Shiv, and other major players of the show, Succession’s excellent supporting characters deserve a paean of their own. Whether they can only claim a single or several dozen lines of dialogue, these are some of the minor characters who make the series sing:

 Succession’s best supporting characters: an ode to Mencken, Gerri, and other personalities.