Shiv's Drinking Is Raising Eyebrows Among 'Succession' Fans
Did Shiv get an abortion in ‘Succession’? She’s observed drinking throughout Season 4, Episode 5, so fans are questioning if she’s still pregnant.
Spoiler alert: This article incorporates spoilers for Succession Season 4, Episode 5.
The Roy family is nearing its denouement as Succession Season Four passes its midway point. In Episode 4, we discovered that Shiv (Sarah Snook) was pregnant, however now in Episode 5, Shiv is going to Norway along with her family to safe the GoJo deal. While there, she’s encouraged to drink and partake in drugs, and we will be able to’t help but wonder whether she were given an abortion.
As far as we all know, Shiv still hasn’t told anyone about her being pregnant, now not even her husband, Tom (Matthew Macfayden). And between the stress of her father’s death, final the GoJo deal, and the stress on her marriage, we wouldn’t blame her for short of an abortion. So did she get one, and if no longer, how is she drinking?
Did Shiv get an abortion? She is observed drinking all through ‘Succession’ Season 4, Episode 5.
Throughout Episode 5, Shiv desires to turn out she can keep up with her brothers once they close the care for Lukas Matsson (Alexander Skarsgård). Turning down alcohol would carry questions from within her family, however it could additionally lift questions among the industry sharks. So when Shiv finds Matsson confiding in her over whiskey and cocaine, we can’t assist however be involved for Shiv’s fetus.
Shiv herself holds a pitcher of whiskey, and Matsson even passes his vial of cocaine to Shiv for a bump. First, Shiv asks Greg to get her a espresso. Then, she’s seen conserving a in part inebriated pint of beer. At any other level, Shiv even turns out to take a sip of the whiskey, although from what we can inform, she slyly avoids doing a bump of the cocaine. Later in the episode, Shiv turns out to take a sip of champagne when the Roy siblings have fun Matsson’s offer.
We don’t wish to soar to conclusions, but we can’t help but surprise that one day between the start of Episode 4 and Episode 5, Shiv secretly got an abortion. We realized in Episode Four that Shiv used to be 20 weeks pregnant, which might be a late-stage abortion, but nonetheless legal in New York. However, we imagine that Shiv could be out of fee for a minimum of an afternoon or two, so we most probably would have known.
On the other hand, we’re all mindful that caffeine, alcohol, and cocaine are instructed in opposition to all the way through being pregnant. And we guess that Shiv would want her long term spawn to be as wholesome as possible so she wouldn’t possibility the fetus’s well being. Our easiest wager is that Shiv is following pregnancy tips as perfect as imaginable; studies have shown that low-level amounts of drinking aren’t destructive to the fetus, and the same goes for caffeine.
Another selection may well be that Shiv is just pretending to sip her drinks and not in reality swallowing the alcohol. Whatever the strategy to Shiv’s drinks may be, it seems not going that she were given an abortion. Considering the timeline and the creation to Shiv’s being pregnant within the prior episode, we doubt she would do something positive about it off-screen.
Regardless, we’re all eagerly expecting the moment when everybody learns there will probably be another Roy in the mix.
New episodes of Succession air every Sunday at nine p.m. EST on HBO.
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