In any other show, at any other time, Shiv would’ve been a character in the vein of Alexis Carrington or Theresa, a powersuit-wearing shark. The layered, caustic writing of the show and Sarah Snook’s performance—the devastating detail of each smirk, each wince, each eye roll—elevate Shiv Roy into one of the most fascinating antiheroines of recent pop culture by letting us spend so much time next to her and by allowing her to be a failure, a Bitch in her flop era. Her ambition is not her downfall, her arrogance is. Shiv, just like her brothers, craves power so much that she doesn’t actually
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