Sen. Sherrod Brown Has Some Thoughts About 'Succession'

“I am watching #Succession with the chairman of the Senate banking committee,” Schultz informed her quarter-million Twitter followers, “and holy cannoli the ongoing commentary.”Neither Schultz nor the husband in question, Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat from Ohio, can recall exactly which episode moved her to compose the tweet, which has now been liked nearly 24,000 times. “I liked how he took on the Roy family,” Brown says of Eavis, “but he didn’t seem as genuine doing it as my colleague Bernie is, frankly.”Brown and Schultz watch TV in their family room in Cleveland, where they have matching leather recliners (“so dorky,” she says), but during Succession she likes to sit on a couch to the side instead so she can see his face. “So often he’ll say, ‘Stop for a second,’ because he has to tell me who it reminds him of, or ‘I forgot to tell you this thing that happened this week in committee hearings.’”The episodes that stand out to Brown are the ones where working people become victims of the Roys’ heartless greed: the Season 1 finale, in which drug-addicted wastrel son Kendall Roy abandons a waiter to drown; the Season 2 finale, in which a company report categorizes the deaths of lowly cruise-line workers as “No Real Person Involved.” “The ‘No Real Person Involved’ was almost anybody who was powerless, particularly people that didn’t look like them,” Brown says.