Why Do So Many ‘Succession’ Fans Think They Can Fix Kendall Roy?

Editor's Note: The following contains spoilers from Season 4 Episode 2 of Succession.It’s widely known that almost everyone on HBO’s Succession is as bad as each other, at least among the main crop of characters. Okay, Logan (Brian Cox) gets his own tier, but otherwise, there’s no clear black-and-white, good versus evil dichotomy — everyone sits closely together on a spectrum, and Kendall Roy (Jeremy Strong) is definitely no exception. To speak only of his general entitlement, casual misogyny, and ruthless ambition would be barely scratching the surface; he can be absolutely awful to those he regards as being beneath him, like when we found out he once pressured a homeless man to get his "KLR" initials tattooed on his forehead. And then there’s the whole committing manslaughter fiasco — not exactly his finest moment, and one that could be a little hard for a person to come back from. But Succession fans love Kendall — more than that, they think they can fix him.