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The Solandge famously got sold in 2017 for a reported €155,000,000 to a private owner by Moran Yacht & Ship, making it one of the biggest brokerage deals of that year. 2 Delivered in 2013, she went on to win the "La Belle Classe Superyachts" award from the Monaco Yacht Club and the "Best Exterior" award at the 2014 Monaco Boat Show. With its 4 decks and iconic deep blue hull, it continues to be a sought-after luxury yacht. more
We were given shots of the Succession yacht's gilded interiors as well as its expansive outdoor entertainment areas as it cruised the Mediterranean waters off the coast of Korcula and Cavtat in Croatia. 1 It would be no surprise if a few people watching the episode wondered whether they could charter the yacht or at least learn more about it.
The yacht in the Succession Season 2 finale is the M/Y Solandge. The Solandge is an 85.1-meter vessel built by German yacht builder Lürssen with interiors designed by Aileen Rodriguez. The luxury motor yacht features 7 guest cabins which can accommodate up to 16 guests, while 15 crew cabins can house up to 28 crew members. Reaching a top speed of 17 knots, it's zero speed stabilization system ensures a smooth cruising experience.
Dip into one of its two hot tubs or take a swim in the full-size swimming pool. Watch a film in the private movie theater or relax in the full-service spa and massage room. The large tender garage houses a luxury tender, jet skis, and a variety of yacht toys for never-ending fun. A fully-stocked wine cellar will have you toasting to your good luck! here
At the same time, Shiv’s stock was rising. There’s no doubt at this point that Shiv is the Roy child most closely akin to her father—the most ambitious sibling, the most manipulative, and the least troubled by the little things, like empathy or guilt. (“This class-war shit—don’t you find it a little jejune?” is up there with “Let them eat cake” as a succinct encapsulation of personal callousness.) “My philosophy is, I literally don’t give a fuck,” Shiv told Nate (Ashley Zukerman) in bed while he was browsing his wedding registry; the personal motto applies to table napkins and china patterns, but also to the world at large. In Season 1, Shiv conspired with a senator who wanted to burn her father’s news empire to the ground. In Season 2, as Logan dangled the throne in front of her like a cat toy, Shiv was made newly vulnerable by the prospect of getting something she actually really wanted. Initially thrown off course, she was back at Logan’s side by “Dundee.” There, Shiv set up Rhea (Holly Hunter) to fail in a way that would facilitate Shiv’s path to the top job, and sweet-talked a woman victimized by Waystar into backing down. [links]
This article contains spoilers through the finale of Succession Season 2.
That the backstabbing and betrayal played out against such an idyllic backdrop seemed fitting. One of the things that have made Season 2 of Succession so strong is its constant shift in locations—a mountain resort for billionaires here, a Hungarian hunting ground there. At home, the family members find comfort in familiar settings and coping mechanisms: the boardroom for Logan, politics for Shiv, irony for Roman, drugs for Kendall. But in new spaces, they’re forced into closer proximity with one another while their armor is taken away, making their damage harder to disguise. These are the kinds of situational setups that lead to riveting television, but also to glimpses of the characters as vulnerable human beings rather than comic archetypes. Tom, for example, is infinitely more compelling when he’s baring his soul to his wife than he is embracing plutocracy by eating songbirds and actual gold.
Water is never a good omen on Succession. In the Season 1 episode “Austerlitz,” the ill-fated infinity pool in the New Mexico desert led to a tweedy psychotherapist losing his front teeth; at the close of the episode, as Logan Roy (played by Brian Cox) swam a few laps, viewers were able to see for a moment the scars that cover his back. In the Season 1 finale, “Nobody Is Ever Missing,” a chipper cater-waiter trying to facilitate a drug buy for Kendall (Jeremy Strong) drowned in a lake on the way back to Shiv’s wedding. And in “This Is Not for Tears,” last night’s conclusion to the show’s superlative second season, the Roy family and its associates basked in the azure incandescence of the Mediterranean before being led, one by one, to try on the metaphorical noose Logan was readying for a scapegoat.
Succession is a show about business empires, and about family, and especially about the peculiar toxicity and dysfunction that occur when the two intersect. Since the show debuted, it has presented a question: Which one of these three children (with apologies to Connor, but let’s be real) will inherit Logan’s kingdom? But there are also other kinds of bequests in the ether, as the scars on Logan’s back—paid forward as psychological wounds to his children and grandchildren—made clear. And so the question gets an extra dimension: Which of his children is Logan’s emotional heir, hungry and empty enough inside to meet his standards for an acceptable successor? more
The Roys have really done it now. Decades of mismanagement and corruption are finally catching up with Logan and quick-talking, morally bankrupt offspring—and heading into the final episode of Succession's second season, their grasp on Waystar Royco is tenuous at best.
Are they really going to spend Christmas with their mom now?
The Roy patriarch knows that even if Shiv has used her craven "soft-skills, lady-duty shit work" to put a band-aid on the company, they haven't heard the last of this cruise scandal. Logan is prepared to offer up someone big, if it helps him retain the Roy family's dominance over Waystar Royco. The only question is who. (Please not Gerri. Anyone but our stable queen.)
Succession, the HBO series centering on the misadventures of the fictional Roy family, is finishing up its second season on Sunday at 9 p.m. ET on HBO. The critically acclaimed show stars Brian Cox, Kieran Culkin, Alan Ruck, Sarah Snook and Jeremy Strong. Like all HBO programming, it will be available on multiple platforms immediately after the episode airs.
Succession was nominated for five Primetime Emmys, winning for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for the episode "Nobody Is Ever Missing" and for Nicholas Britell's main title theme music. The show was also nominated for Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Directing for Adam McKay's work on the pilot and Outstanding Casting. It also won the Best International Series award at the 2019 BAFTA Awards.
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