Shiv is never presented to us as a good person (everyone on Succession is objectively a terrible human being; it’s a sliding scale of awfulness), but compared to her brothers (the screwy Kendall, knucklehead bon vivant Roman, and deluded aspiring politico Connor), she seemed, at first, the most level-headed of the Roy clan. However, Shiv is just as much of a flop as her brothers. Smart enough to see her own mistakes, but not smart enough to avoid making them, her job throughout the first season is, ironically, to manage the likeability of a female political candidate.
