{"id":56025,"date":"2023-04-11T00:49:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T23:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pley2win.com\/featured-news\/in-succession-logan-does-die-now-what\/"},"modified":"2023-04-11T00:49:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T23:49:00","slug":"in-succession-logan-does-die-now-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pley2win.com\/?p=56025","title":{"rendered":"In Succession Logan does die \u2014 now what?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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[Ed. note:<\/strong> This post discusses the plot of \u201cConnor\u2019s Wedding,\u201d season 4 episode 3 of Succession<\/em>, in detail.]<\/p>\n
In its fourth season, HBO\u2019s Succession<\/em> had a promise to keep. As the final season of the acclaimed drama, the current stretch of episodes has the burden of fulfilling the promise of the show\u2019s title. Someone has to take over for Logan Roy (Brian Cox), the patriarch of the Roy family and conservative media tycoon near the end of his life and career. After deciding against stepping down and naming a successor among his squabbling children more than once, it has become apparent that the only thing that will separate Logan from his company is death. <\/p>\n
What makes \u201cConnor\u2019s Wedding\u201d a terrific episode of television is how it makes Logan\u2019s inevitable death still feel like a shock, thereby getting the audience invested in his childrens\u2019 messy, complicated grief. <\/p>\n
Logan\u2019s passing is arresting in its sudden mundanity. In a show that likes to wring both heavy drama and laugh-out-loud comedy out of board meetings and glad-handing, Logan\u2019s final moments are remarkable in how little weight they carry. He only has a few brief moments in \u201cConnor\u2019s Wedding,\u201d asking his youngest son to let a trusted associate know she\u2019s getting axed, and choosing to skip his eldest son\u2019s wedding in order to secure a business deal. <\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n
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This casual callousness is signature Logan Roy, perfected across three seasons by Cox\u2019s performance and Succession<\/em>\u2019s writers. He then gets on a plane. The next we hear from him is when his son-in-law Tom Wambsgams (Matthew Macfadyen), the only family member on the flight full of cronies, gets on the phone with Roman (Kieran Culkin) to share the news that Logan went to the bathroom and had to be dragged out as the flight attendant started administering chest compressions. <\/p>\n
What follows is a showcase for the acting talents of Succession<\/em>\u2019s cast, as Roman, Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Shiv (Sarah Snook), and Connor (Alan Ruck) all process the shock of their father\u2019s passing in ways that, in a few brief moments, sum up who each of the Roy siblings are under the personas they present to the world, and the complicated feelings of love and loathing that can come from a toxic family relationship. <\/p>\n
\u201cConnor\u2019s Wedding\u201d poses an answer to a question frequently asked by Succession<\/em>\u2019s detractors: Why would I want to watch a show about a bunch of rich white assholes<\/em>? The answer, it turns out, is the result of any well-written story. Succession<\/em> is a show about rich white assholes, yes. But those rich white assholes are people first. They have foibles and insecurities, richly suggested inner lives and distinct interpersonal dynamics with each other. The yachts, villas, and galas they enjoy as 1 percenters don\u2019t matter when there\u2019s someone on the phone telling them their father isn\u2019t breathing. Wealth merely amplifies their worst tendencies, making them think their fatal flaws are superpowers, or that some bills will never come due to them. <\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n
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They\u2019re often right to think this. Kendall Roy caused a man\u2019s death in season 1, and all he had to do was go to a fancy rehab retreat to pay for it. Every single one of the Roy siblings has spent the series failing up, starting and folding new business ventures essentially on a whim. Succession<\/em> is brutally honest in this regard: The rich play by different rules, breaking the world around them without a second thought. <\/p>\n
But Logan\u2019s death renders them powerless. They learn via a phone call that their father passed out in a bathroom and might not get up again. They can\u2019t say goodbye, or leverage their vast resources to get him better care. Logan Roy is just a man, going out like many men his age do, and the Roy siblings are also just people, with nothing to help them wade through but the mess of a family they have. <\/p>\n
For the viewer firmly outside of the 1%, the Roy family is broken in ways both painfully recognizable and hilariously foreign. All the money in the world, and it does not make it any easier to just tell your family what they mean to you. None of it helps you cope with a lifetime of abuse or toxicity. Everyone eventually has to stand in front of a mirror and contemplate what they\u2019ve become. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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