The Sad, Sad Life of Tom Wambsgans
After living to serve, the most pathetic character on <em>Succession</em> finally finds himself on the outs.
This story contains spoilers through the seventh episode of Succession Season 4.
On Succession, a party is never just a party. Birthdays are for wooing business partners. Weddings are for tactical betrayals. And tonight’s episode was no different: Set at a pre–Election Night fete hosted by Shiv (played by Sarah Snook) and Tom (Matthew Macfadyen), “Tailgate Party” followed an evening of overpromising, undermining, and extreme hobnobbing. In every corner of Shiv and Tom’s New York home was someone—a power broker, a hanger-on—on a mission to schmooze their way to success.
The result was, as always, controlled chaos. Scenes flitted from one doublespeak negotiation to
