Shiv Roy vs. Elisabeth Murdoch
Besides both being extremely wealthy blonde women with shrewd business sense — Shiv built her own career outside of Waystar in politics, while Elisabeth founded UK TV production company Shine Group in 2001 — the biggest similarity between Shiv and Elisabeth Murdoch may be their marriage issues. Early on the final season of Succession, it seemed that Shiv and ATN executive Tom Wambsgans (Matthew Mcfadyen) would call it quits. Of course, if you saw the final episode of the show, you know that they reached an awkward detente — and that Tom succeeded in his job far beyond anyone’s expectations.
In real life, Elisabeth Murdoch married Matthew Freud, the grandson of Sigmund Freud known for his PR talents, in 2001. They divorced after 13 years of marriage in 2014. Just like Tom and Logan have an awkward relationship on Succession, Freud was known to have disputes with Rupert Murdoch over both politics and personal matters.
On Succession, Tom was closer to Logan than Freud was with Murdoch, which isn’t to say they Tom and Logan were that close. Nonetheless, Logan’s death — and a whole lot of scheming and double-crossing — helped Tom rise to the top of American operations after Waystar Royco’s sale.
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