{"id":627612,"date":"2023-04-10T09:49:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T14:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/10\/successions-last-season-is-finally-getting-interesting-by-taking-some-risks\/"},"modified":"2023-04-10T09:49:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T14:49:18","slug":"successions-last-season-is-finally-getting-interesting-by-taking-some-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/10\/successions-last-season-is-finally-getting-interesting-by-taking-some-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"Succession\u2019s last season is finally getting interesting by taking some risks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The first two episodes of Succession<\/em>\u2019s final season<\/a> made it seem things might be the same, as if the HBO series really might have been comfortable going out by leaving Logan Roy and his children to languish in the same Shakespearean holding pattern that\u2019s defined their story for the entire series. Even with Kendall, Shiv, and Roman all ostensibly being on the same page and working together for the first time, it still felt like Succession <\/em>didn\u2019t want to move too far away from its core power dynamics for fear of having to actually push itself into new territory. <\/p>\n

But \u201cConnor\u2019s Wedding,\u201d the series\u2019 latest episode, has ushered in one of Succession<\/em>\u2019s most significant and unexpected shifts \u2014 the first the truly makes this season feel like it could stick the landing.<\/p>\n

Major spoilers for the third episode of Succession\u2019s fourth season.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p>\n

Concerns about Logan Roy\u2019s health loomed large over Succession<\/em> from its first episode as it introduced us to all the various power players vying for a shot at control over Waystar Royco. Throughout the first season, you could feel the idea that Logan \u2014 a curmudgeonly octogenarian who didn\u2019t exactly live the healthiest lifestyle \u2014 might just up and die and create a power vacuum. But that possibility seemed to fall to the wayside as the series continued, and illustrated how the Roy siblings\u2019 adult dysfunctions all stemmed from being trapped in decades of family drama that it seemed very much like they\u2019d never escape from.<\/p>\n

Logan always beating his children no matter how they conspired against him felt like a quintessential part of Succession<\/em>\u2019s identity, and like a power dynamic the series never planned to let go. But in a truly shocking turn of events, \u201cConnor\u2019s Wedding\u201d \u2014 written by serious creator Jesse Armstrong, and directed by Mark Mylod \u2014 upended all of that by unceremoniously killing Logan Roy off, and flinging everyone formerly in his orbit into deep space.<\/p>\n

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Of all the possible ways Logan Roy could have bitten the bullet, there are few that would have felt as poetic as him having a heart attack thousands of feet in the air while traveling to finalize the GoJo acquisition deal that would have effectively made Kendall, Roman, and Shiv persona non grata at Waystar. More than just another shrewd deal, the GoJo deal and Logan\u2019s desire to follow through on it spoke to his willingness to truly screw his children out of the glory, power, and validation they each so desperately wanted.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Succession <\/em>being the kind of show that it is, it always felt as if there might have been some sort of secret plan baked into Logan\u2019s interest in GoJo. But \u201cConnor\u2019s Wedding\u201d makes it crystal clear that, plan or not, Logan\u2019s death changes everything in ways that even he couldn\u2019t fully account for or try to somehow play to his advantage from beyond the grave.<\/p>\n

Though much of \u201cConnor\u2019s Wedding\u201d focuses on the chaos that begins to bubble up as word of Logan\u2019s death spreads, what really makes the episode shine is the way it illustrates how those closest to Logan were also those under the most emotional and psychological pressure to perform for him. Watching Succession<\/em>, it\u2019s always been rare to ever get the sense that any of the Roys are especially in touch with their emotions: Logan by choice, and his children as a matter of necessity to survive growing up with their father. But in this episode, we finally, genuinely, got the sense that, in different ways, each of the kids is unmoored by the suddenness of Logan\u2019s passing \u2014 not necessarily just because they\u2019re sad, but because the antagonistic presence they\u2019ve all defined themselves in relation to is just gone.<\/p>\n

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The events of \u201cConnor\u2019s Wedding,\u201d makes the Roy siblings\u2019 tenuous alliance with one another that much more interesting because it\u2019s now grieving as well as a desire to push back against his plans for Waystar that unites them. But something very similar is also true of Logan\u2019s surviving advisors Karolina, Frank, Carl, and Tom, who all become different people after witnessing their former boss\u2019 death.<\/p>\n

In the same way that Logan\u2019s death throws the siblings for a loop and some emotional spiraling, it galvanizes Logan\u2019s advisors who all understand that Waystar\u2019s story \u2014 and their own \u2014 will continue without him. \u201cConnor\u2019s Wedding\u201d is careful not to dive all that way into it now, but in the episode, you can already see how Logan\u2019s death has empowered or given some people a sense of freedom that could push Succession <\/em>into interesting new territory.<\/p>\n

The idea of the Roy siblings teaming up only for their father to school them once again wasn\u2019t all that compelling a prospect on its face, and it didn\u2019t exactly feel like the kind of thing that would make for a memorable final season. With Logan gone now, though, you can clearly see how the Roys and the Waystar board will have to contend with one another, and might finally deliver the thing Succession<\/em> viewers have always craved: an ending.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The first two episodes of Succession\u2019s final season made it seem things might be the same, as if the HBO series really might have been comfortable going out by leaving Logan Roy and his children to languish in the same Shakespearean holding pattern that\u2019s defined their story for the entire series. Even with Kendall, Shiv<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":627613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[795,26659,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-season","category-successions","category-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}