Succession: Roy family members ranked from least loathsome to most

Connor Roy

Logan Roy’s oldest son from his first marriage, Connor is a spoiled rich kid who grew into a spoiled rich man. Like all of Logan’s children, he carries around childhood trauma on account of having grown up with Logan for a dad, but unlike his younger half-siblings, he isn’t interested in following in his father’s footsteps and becoming head of Waystar Royco.

Or maybe it’s that he doesn’t have the ability, which may be his saving grace. Connor is low on this list because, self-absorbed and super-rich as he is, he doesn’t have the capacity to do much real harm. His biggest project over the course of the show is a vainglorious run for president that everyone knows is hopeless but that Connor pursues anyway, making a mockery of the democratic process mostly because he wants something to do. If Connor were smart enough to get real power, he could be dangerous. As it is, he can generally be laughed off.

Greg Hirsch

Oh, Greg. His may be the saddest story of all.

Logan’s grand-nephew, Greg started the series as a wide-eyed innocent kid who thought his powerful relative might be able to get him a job. He was bumbling and awkward, but also showed a willingness to cross ethical lines, like when he helped shred documents related to a sex scandal at Waystar Royco. What’s more, he kept a few copies as insurance in case anyone tried to pin anything on him, proving he has a better head for scheming than you might think watching him cower before his great-uncle or blunder his way through congressional testimony.

He leaned into those instincts in later seasons, joining his mentor/best friend/co-dependent disaster Tom Wambsgans in betraying the mainline Roy siblings to better his position at the company, happily taking this deal with the devil. “What am I going to do with a soul anyways?” he asked. “Souls are boring. Boo souls.” In season 4, he gamely fired dozens of employees and claimed not to feel anything afterward.

Like Connor, Greg seems incapable, but he’s been learning fast, and his seeming harmlessness allows him to slip under people’s radars. With more years in the corporate lion’s den, he could be as deadly as any of them.