![]() ![]() “It hurts, but it plays,” Logan admits when Shiv mentions the family fuck-up is a prime candidate for a killing. There’s a part of you, the viewer, that just inherently knows whose head will eventually be on the chopping block - the same one we saw floating, almost disembodied, out of an Icelandic hot spring way back in the season premiere. 'Succession' Season Premiere Recap: A Better Plan So whose head gets put on the spike?, Logan asks. The next morning, he casually introduces the idea and gets the requisite “no way,” “we need the appearance of stability,” etc. The shareholders have already suggested that Logan resigning is the only solution they 100-percent approve of. (The fact that judgment regarding who’s going to take the blame for deaths on a cruise ship will be rendered on a gigantic floating playground is a nice touch.) Attempts to go private have failed. Tomorrow, they’ll get together “and have a chat” about what happens now. After a helicopter drops Logan off at the boat, he announces that everyone should have a great time tonight. ![]() In the finale, the battle royale octagon of choice is a yacht in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea no word on whether they’re anchored in international waters, but Logan’s Law rules regardless.Įveryone knows heads are going to roll after that disastrous hearing, in which numerous folks shat various beds. The sheer viciousness of the backbiting, not to mention the choice one-liners - “You can’t make a Tomelette without breaking some Gregs” the writing team has outdone themselves this season - have kept these Darwinian set pieces from becoming nothing but humiliate, blame, grovel, repeat. gathering together his children, their significant others and various key lackeys in a location (a Hungarian hunting lodge, the Roys’ summer home, a pre-celebration toast in Scotland) and letting them tear each other apart. This whole season has revolved largely around the paterfamilias engaging in his favorite pastime, i.e. Whether you believe this whole turn of events was part of Logan’s ultimate plan or not, however, depends on just how Machiavellian and omnipotent you think this media titan is. It ends not with a bang but with a “ But…”. ![]() It may come down to a single word, uttered with such emphasis you can practically see the italics, in the finale. ![]() rap ( viva Ken.W.A!), the art-imitates-life-imitates-headlines of the Vaulter dismantling, hyperdecanting, or even an iPad angrily tossed into the sea. And, now that Round 2 is said and done, this sophomore season may not be remembered primarily for “boar on the floor!,” the L to O.G. Its second season was leagues better, finally discovering the show it wanted to be it was less a course correction than locating the proper curve of the Roys’ collective instability and leaning in to it. Jesse Armstrong’s lifestyles-of-the-rich-and-toxic drama started slow in Season One and eventually built to a strong finish. But there are a few things we can more or less agree on. History will tell whether Succession is a genuinely great, canon-worthy HBO show or merely the most compelling flaming-Maybach-wreck-in-progress on TV right now. ![]()
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