Succession, the HBO show about a billionaire patriarch named Logan Roy (Brian Cox), couldve been just another prestige drama about a male antihero. An old rich bastard, a corporate corollary to Tony Soprano, who grapples with the inevitability of his decline and death, ever reluctant to step off the stage.

But the second season is actually turning out to be a complicated portrayal of what female power looks like in a business world ruled almost entirely by men.

In Sunday nights episode, Argestes, the show took that depiction a step further, offering a stealth look at how the Me Too era shifts the ground under the feet of the old, comfortable male guard.

Logan must now grapple with a world in which women are ascendant, or at least where they matter.