SPOILER ALERT: Spoilers ahead for Succession up through Season 4, Episode 5: “Kill List.”Succession is in its end game, now midway through its fourth and final season, but the HBO drama (or is it a comedy?) has already proven its not just going to coast to the finish line.And while it remains to be seen who will, indeed, succeed in Succession and end up on top, there’s one other burning question that’s been driving fans wild since the very beginning:Is Roman Roy gay?Played by Kieran Culkin, Roman is the snide middle child from media magnate Logan Roy’s (Brian Cox) second marriage, and a real contender to take over the family business now that their father has croaked.Since the beginning, Roman has shown himself to be a lewd and crude sleazeball, but also something of a prude.
Though initially introduced with a since-retconned wife and child (more on that later), he’s been known to come up short with female sexual partners, instead indulging in kinky shame-play with his father’s longtime confidante, Gerri (J.