Recap: ‘Succession’ S4E4: Underlined or crossed out?

One of many “Succession” locales that the majority precisely conveys the monstrous wealth and conservative values of the Roy household is, after all, Logan Roy’s Manhattan house. With ornate picket paneling, swanky elevators and spiral staircases, it completely encapsulates the late patriarch and entrepreneur’s conventional values. This makes it the proper setting for this season’s fourth episode, “Honeymoon States,” which offers with the emotional and monetary aftermath of Logan’s passing.

As at all times, the pursuits of the corporate battle with every sibling’s private agenda in more and more fascinating and malicious methods all through the episode,  introduced into focus by the invention of an undated doc of Logan’s, whereby he bequests the place of CEO to Kendall. When proven the doc, nevertheless, Shiv instantly factors out that the faint line of pencil hovering close to Kendall’s identify might move as both an underline or a cross-out. The cross-out does appear extra doubtless given, as Roman quips, that Kendall tried to place his dad in jail “like, 12 instances.” Regardless of his siblings’ protests, Kendall holds on to hope over the piece of paper, reminding us that his best precedence is the succession battle.

Logan’s estranged spouse Marcia, who disappeared from the present for nearly an entire season, comes again in full pressure this episode. Proper off the bat, she screws Connor out of $63 million for Logan’s house and brutally ices out Kerry by ordering a taxi “to take her to the subway.”

Tom Wambsgans, very similar to Kerry, is making an attempt to hold on to energy and failing miserably, as everybody round him realizes that the one purpose he caught round was due to Logan. After failing to attraction to the company internal circle and Kendall, he reverts again to creating emotional appeals to Shiv, asking her to recall after they first met. This method may really work out for him although, as a result of, unbeknownst to him, Shiv is pregnant.

One of the fascinating throughlines in “Succession” is how the ladies of Waystar Royco, and by extension the Roy household, address the a long time of sexual malpractice and prejudice baked into the corporate’s DNA. Kerry is nothing with out her sexual connection to Logan, and Shiv is terrified on the prospect of her being pregnant remodeling her into her mom, pushed out of energy and unable to father or mother. It doesn’t assist that instantly after her brothers needle and prod her out of an interim management place, she journeys and falls — nearly in tears, however not fairly.

Because the episode nears its finish, Roman and Kendall are applauded by the company stooges who ousted them from the corporate mere weeks in the past, and who now profess their confidence in them as interim co-CEOs within the impending GoJo deal. All this speak concerning the deal, and the demonstrated unpredictability of GoJo CEO Lukas Matsson, spell incoming doom for the fledgling Waystar management workforce. Nevertheless, Kendall specifically is just too blinded by the truth that he has lastly beat his father to see the warning indicators. With the deal, the upcoming presidential election — which the siblings are nonetheless very a lot break up on — and the just-barely-under-wraps household secret of Kendall’s manslaughter, issues don’t precisely seem like sunshine and rainbows for Waystar Royco. Within the immortal phrases of the late Logan Roy, we will anticipate a “shitshow on the fuck manufacturing unit” within the weeks to come back.

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