Warning: This story accommodates spoilers from season 4 of Succession.
The top of an period. Episode three of Succession season 4 was titled “Connor’s Marriage ceremony” — however the eldest Roy son’s nuptials turned out to be an afterthought.
As Connor (Alan Ruck) was gearing as much as marry Willa (Justine Lupe), the Roy siblings acquired the information that their father, Logan (Brian Cox), had collapsed on the airplane throughout a flight to Sweden. The Waystar Royco mogul had ditched Connor’s wedding ceremony so as to go to Lukas Matsson (Alexander Skarsgård), however his well being took a flip as he was touring.
Tom (Matthew Macfadyen), who was on the airplane with Logan, known as Roman (Kieran Culkin) and knowledgeable him that his father’s situation was fairly dangerous. As a flight attendant carried out chest compressions, Tom inspired Roman and Kendall (Jeremy Robust) to talk to their father one final time through telephone. By the point Shiv (Sarah Snook) acquired her likelihood, Logan had already handed. The remainder of the episode adopted the siblings as they tried to determine methods to announce the information of their father’s dying.
Whereas many Succession followers suspected that Logan would die sooner or later throughout the drama’s remaining season, few predicted that his dying would occur so quickly. Now that he’s gone, nevertheless, the remainder of the season may give attention to the Roy youngsters — Kendall, Shiv, Roman and Connor — determining methods to divvy up his belongings.
Kendall, Shiv and Roman had been beforehand united in opposition to their father, making an attempt to take him out by outbidding him for PGM or beginning their very own media firm. With out him as an antagonist, nevertheless, it appears probably that they may activate one another in pursuit of energy at their father’s firm, Waystar Royco.
Whereas Logan’s days on Succession are seemingly over, Cox, 76, just lately instructed Us Weekly that he has no plans to cease working.
“You typically get [from people], ‘Nicely, I’m gonna take the summer time off.’ And I’m going, ‘What the hell does that imply, taking this summer time off? What do you imply you’re gonna take the summer time off?’ … You’re a very long time lifeless. You don’t have to take the summer time off,’” the Emmy winner mentioned in February. “I don’t perceive the idea of not working. I’ve performed that each one my life. I’ve all the time labored. And it’s one thing that I’ll proceed to do till I drop. I work and I simply benefit from the work. And I discover it enjoyable, I be taught loads. I all the time be taught and also you be taught from individuals.”
He additionally already has tons of plans within the works following his departure from Succession. “I’ve all the time been very Catholic in my opinion of the work, no matter comes alongside,” he defined. “And I’m gonna be doing two performs this 12 months and I’m additionally hoping to direct my first movie, which I’m gonna be doing hopefully in Could and June. So, I’m busy.”
Earlier this 12 months, Succession creator Jesse Armstrong shocked followers when he revealed that season 4 could be the present’s final installment. “You already know, there’s a promise within the title of Succession,” he instructed The New Yorker in February. “I’ve by no means thought this might go on ceaselessly.”
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Succession airs on HBO Sundays at 9 p.m. ET.
