WARNING: The below contains spoilers for Season 3, Episode 3 of Succession
Succession might just be one of the best shows on TV. It's not just us that think it: it won big at last year's Emmy's, scooping 9 awards (they were nominated for 23) and it's got a 95% rating on Rotten Tomatoes (the barometer for great TV, admit it).
But just what is so fantastic about it?
There's the mercurial relationship the audience has with the characters (it feels reductive to decide whether we love or despise Roman); the pacy plot; the Macbethian family dynamics, and the scathing wit.
Let's also not forget the clothes. Rachel Syme of The New Yorker puts it perfectly: 'The show, for the most part, does not call attention to matters of style... The spaces they inhabit tend to be grandly but blandly appointed... Their clothing 'expensive but inconspicuous.' Her most accurate observation? 'Within this sea of neutral tones are subtle tones of class and power.'
The same could be said for Kendall's grooming routine.
As episode 3 shows him gearing up to make a surprise entrance into Waystar Royco, viewers got a glimpse of his bathroom sink. The bathroom - bright white, soulless, astringent - had one noticeable feature: an Augustinus Bader Cream.
And you don't have to be an eagle-eyed skincare fan to have noticed it there, either. Bader's signature royal blue and gold packaging, against a backdrop of clinical white, is impossible to miss - placed there to be seen.
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It makes so. much. sense. for this to be the product artfully displayed in Kendall's bathroom, and not least because of the price (50ml of this moisturiser is £205).
We'd take bets that he doesn't know quite what the moisturiser does, or why it's worth the hefty price tag. If he knew anything about skincare, he'd know that moisturisers are best stored somewhere cool and dry, for a start...
It's not dissimilar to the time Kendall arrives at a start up back in season 1, buying a pair of Lanvin trainers for the occasion. He knows nothing about these trainers; just that they're worn by those at Silicon Valley. 'I got these sneakers on the way down here because I wanted to make an impression,' he says. 'So, I'm a jackass.'
What Kendall probably doesn't know is that Augustinus Bader's The Cream isgood. He's paid for Professor Bader's patented technology, TFC8 (it stands for Trigger Factor Complex). It's a technology made up of 40 ingredients, that targets multiple skincare concerns at once. If there's any magic potion to remedy all the stress facing Kendall Roy currently, it's this.
It seems Kendall might've put his money somewhere smart for once (even if he probably doesn't know it yet). It's got us thinking about the other Succession characters, too. Shiv definitely has to be a Dr. Barbara Sturm girl, don't you think?
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