Finding Shakespeare in All Things:
On HBO’s Succession: Jeremy Strong’s Kendall Roy is more Henry V or Regan in King Lear? The show is clearly based on Shakespeare’s King Lear, with a dottering old man dividing his kingdom up among his back-stabbing kids. But it’s also a Shakespearean history play, with Kendall Roy being one of the more compelling figures on television. This is what keeps me up at night.