“I feel dizzy. I haven’t slept.” “Actually, I’m fine. I just didn’t see it coming.” “For some of us it’s a sad day, but for others it’s the demolition of the coronation.” Each of the sentences is said by each of the three brothers who follow the succession of the empire of, in fact successionthe HBO series that on Easter day had an episode in which everything was turned upside down.
We already said it: no member of the Roy family can invite him to eat a barbecue in the house. They are unscrupulous, lying, unreliable, eternally conspiratorial, profitable, far-fetched.
Are you ready for what’s coming?
I’m not saying you viewers, and I include myself, but the Roy brothers.
From here, the following will have logical spoilers for what happened in episode 3 of the fourth and final season of succession.
But what happened?
In the third chapter of succession, Connor’s wedding, Connor (Alan Ruck) and Willa Ferreyra (Justine Lupe) get married. His siblings Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Shiv (Sarah Snook) and Roman (Kieran Culkin) arrive at the dock and board the luxurious boat, which will take them to an island, where the wedding ceremony will take place.
They know their father, Logan (Brian Cox), won’t attend, because he’s flying to convince Swedish businessman, Lukas Matsson (Alexander Skarsgard), for the sale of his company, Waystar Royco. Out of the blue, Roman gets a call from Tom (Matthew Macfadyen), who is parting ways with Shiv, telling him that his father passed out in the bathroom of the private plane and is receiving cardiopulmonary resuscitation. One by one, without knowing whether their father is listening or not, on the other end of the cell phone, the children try to give him words of encouragement and love.
After the end of the episode, the diary Los Angeles Times it was the most extreme: he posted an obituary of Logan Roy, as if he were a real, real businessman.
When to watch the fourth episode
It will premiere on Sunday, April 16 at 11pm in Argentina. And you can watch it both on cable and on HBO and streaming if you subscribe to HBO Max.
what’s coming
“My sister is crazy. My brother is a mess,” Roman confides. “Who would we rather, one of us or one of the old guard,” you’ll hear him say earlier. “The only one who supported you is dead,” says Karl ( David Rasche) to Tom. “Dad is dead. We have to lean on each other,” says Ken. “What about me? Hit him, lie to me,” Shiv says.
“It’s a trusted brand,” Ken tries to convince the Swede to buy the company. “You call it a trust mark? It’s a parts store. Good parts, bad brand”. The negotiation, if possible, will not be easy.
Meanwhile, Connor, the older brother – son of Logan, but of a different mother from the other three – continues his presidential race. “I’m blowing up in Alaska,” he confides, as if that guarantees him anything.
If the series is called what is called (Succession), it is clear that in the next seven episodes the fight will be even more bitter than when the brothers fought against their father -although Roman and Shiv, in different seasons, have played two finals-.
Then again, Brian Cox himself was surprised by his sudden departure from the series.
“Jesse Armstrong called me -the author- and he said, ‘Logan is going to die.’ And I thought, ‘Okay. I thought I was going to die in episode 7 or 8, but in episode 3… Well, it’s a little early,” I pitched. He laughed and said, ‘Not that he bothered me,'” Cox confided The New York Times.
“They had to end it somehow, and it was Jesse’s choice. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, the problem with a lot of television, especially American television, is that it’s past its sell-by date. And the great thing about Jesse and the writers of the show is that they don’t. It was hard for them,” he told her.
But was there good reason to kill him like that, more or less peacefully, by the way? “I think there are many reasons why Jesse killed him. And I applaud the fact that he did. He was brave because everyone loves the show. He always leaves the party when he’s at his best, not when the foam is going down.
Cox also responded on how he thought audiences of the series would take his character’s departure.
“The public may be furious. They can lose Logan and say, “But what are you doing killing off one of the more interesting characters?” But it’s fine. I’m doing many other things. I go back to the theater. I hope to direct my first film in my old age. And I’m preparing the show Long journey from day to night in London, which will be released in the spring of 2024. So I know what I will probably do until next summer”.
“Change the bets. The main protagonist is gone. And the kids have to deal with it, or not. I think next week is going to be tough for a lot of the audience, because they’re going to miss Logan. And I don’t think that’s a bad thing,” she said.
Why was Logan so, so… pitiful? “It’s very easy to turn people into villains. But here you are looking at a self-made man, who has made certain decisions that have set him down a not very pleasant path. He probably he had a lot of ambitions. He wanted to make things right and everything went wrong for him.”
“And then the kids come along, and he just can’t deal with the way they act when he knows how hard it was for him to do what he did, and they have no idea what that means. I think that’s where the problem lies. .” depth of the show; that’s where it becomes not just a social satire but a real drama,” he said.
Bad with (some) goodness
“I don’t judge it in a way. But in another sense, I judge it. I think it is extremely stupid. But then, my job isn’t to give my point, my job is to say, ‘That’s the man. Like it or not, here it is. And I’m going to instill in it all the complications we have.’”
“I think it is very misunderstood. It all went horribly wrong. We have these little moments in the mother’s story, the relationship with the brother. That’s where he becomes a human being, because he’s full of weaknesses and all the problems we have every day, and all the awful decisions we make or don’t make.”
Well, the problems now are their children.
Source: Clarin
