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Welcome to the Creepiest Corporate Retreat Ever

This was one cold-blooded episode of <em>Succession.</em>
Source: Graeme Hunter / HBO

This story contains spoilers through the fifth episode of Succession Season 4.

Far be it from me to judge what a woman does with her body, but the sight of a pregnant Siobhan Roy swirling a glass of brown liquor and scraping a vial of white powder in this episode of made my blood run cold—as cold as that of a certain Swedish tech exec in the throes of courtship. Shiv, to be clear, is only shown taking the tiniest, maybe fake, sip of booze. Obviously she is trying to blend in at the über–bachelor party that is the GoJo corporate, the possibility of a different future has emerged for his kids—and now they’re debating whether to embrace it or sabotage it.

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