Succession’s Kendall Roy is a perfect encapsulation of a “good white person.”

The world of Succession is a white one. The scarcity is such that, if you were to engage in the thought exercise known as “does this person have a single friend who isn’t white?”—perhaps as a fun drinking game each Sunday night—the answer, when it comes to most of Succession’s main players, would be a resounding, boozy “no.” But if there is one central character who proves an exception to that rule, it is Kendall Roy, the eldest among the three siblings vying for control of Waystar Royco. In Kendall’s world, we’re probably all just, like, one race—the human race, bro—but that beige platitude may be at least an inch more convincing on Kendall than on his sister Shiv, who condescendingly calls the one Black woman she knows “honey” in Season 3, and is several miles better than Roman and his 4chan-lite grade of political incorrectness. Immediately, Kendall fires her, because “she’s a toxic person.” The long-suffering Jess, a fan favorite for her apparent competency and for Canfield’s extensive range of facial expressions dialed to different pitches of “What the fuck,” is met with an even harsher reaction in the series’ penultimate episode, “Church and State.” Perturbed by Kendall’s role in his American Television Network calling the presidential election for far-right candidate Jeryd Mencken—and possibly by her own complicity as an employee of the company that owns that conservative news outlet—Jess plans to resign, a decision that Kendall forces out into the open and then upbraids her for as if she were an ungrateful child. Ken’s reading of the situation comes back to himself: “You’re trying to hurt me.” Next on his to-do list, after threatening to lie in front of Rava’s car, Ted Lasso–style, is to tell Jess to find him family lawyers so he can get full custody of the kids he never sees—just a day after having confessed to not being “a very good father” and siding with a presidential candidate whose appeal is built on shoving Sophies to the ground.