“Will there be nibbles at this event? I was expecting nibbles,” asks Roman Roy (Kieran Culkin) in the second season of “Succession,” before an event honoring patriarch Logan Roy’s (Brian Cox) 50 years at the helm of his media conglomerate Waystar Royco.
On “Succession,” food is everywhere. Even the show’s documentary-style cameras often hover around the staff at one of the Roys’ homes or caterers at a lavish event, showing them painstakingly preparing and assembling platters of food — only for it to go uneaten.
Like many things on the show, food is transactional, weaponized by any given character to assert power or signify a lack thereof. Food is also a frequent metaphor peppered throughout the show’s feast of insults. Whether it’s literal or figurative, food usually means the Roys are having a terrible time. As the deliciously vicious HBO series begins its…
