Succession: Thoughts on Caroline

For me the saddest example of Caroline's mothering was when Ken was going to tell her about killing Andrew Dodds, and she decided to leave without warning instead. Harriet Walter, who plays Caroline, said that Caroline was afraid Kendall was going to criticize her as a mother, but Caroline specifically asks if Ken intends to criticize her and he specifically says that's not what it's about. Honestly, I think if Kendall had intended to criticize her she wouldn't have run away. I think she knew how to react to that and how to deal with that. But she didn't know how to deal with Ken confiding in her something emotional about his own life.

Caroline's best moment is in the penultimate episode. At Logan's funeral, she introduces Marcia to Sally-Anne, "my Kerry". This apparently prompts Marcia to let go of her hostility towards Kerry. Caroline demonstrates that Marcia was not the first wife of Logan to get cheated on, and had Logan lived she would probably have not been the last. In accepting Sally-Anne she encourages Marcia to accept Kerry.