Succession

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The Roy family is back for a fourth and final season, and everyone came out swinging. Let the humiliations begin.

I’m “Substack meets Masterclass meets the Economist meets The New Yorker.”) Connor Roy (Alan Ruck) is in a funk all episode because he has been told he needs to spend another $100 million on his presidential campaign just to maintain his current 1 percent in the polls. Bridget is “a firecracker” and “crunchy peanut butter,” who at one point sneaks off with him and has “a bit of a rummage” in his pants. It is “like a private members club but for everyone.” It is “an indispensable bespoke information hub” with “high-calorie info-snacks.” It “has the ethos of a nonprofit but the path to crazy margins.” (Tag yourself! brand that Logan would never honor (despite Tom’s promise to the Pierces of “a little tummy-tickle on culture”). (Who is also possibly his lover and the future mother of his child? (“I don’t want to be restricted to my favorites,” she says, a tossed-off remark that says a lot about Shiv’s whole vibe.) They bicker a bit about how Tom and Cousin Greg ( She insists there is no way to back out of her tentative deal with Logan and groans that she is tired of hearing about numbers, while sneakily steering her new suitors toward an offer well beyond the $7 billion Waystar was planning to spend. Shiv wants primarily to be taken seriously so that Nan will stop thinking of the Roy kids as “fake fruit for display purposes only.” The younger Roys know that they can offer Nan assurances about preserving the P.G.M. What eventually rouses Logan on this deeply depressing evening is what is happening across the country in Los Angeles, where Shiv, Kendall (Jeremy Strong) and Roman (Kieran Culkin) are plotting revenge for the vicious way Logan blocked their recent coup attempt. After betraying his wife and allying with Logan Roy (Brian Cox), Tom is starting to realize that his father-in-law perhaps values him mainly as a way to keep tabs on his rebellious kids. Everyone always needs to iron out a few more details, get a few more stragglers from the board into the fold, toss in a few more sweeteners for the major shareholders, et cetera.

The HBO dramedy's final season kicked off with a devastating moment for a couple at war.

Shiv was raised on this philosophy, so it’s no wonder that she chooses to cut her losses with Tom instead of enduring, as she so tellingly frames his suggestion that they have an open conversation, “a whole lot of bullsh-t for no profit.” Unwilling to cede any ground to Tom, she refuses his pitiful offer to “see if I can make love to you” but insists on staying put until morning. But together they form a market”—like a “job market, marriage market, money market, market of ideas” (emphasis mine). These days, he’s so cozy with his ambitious personal assistant, Kerry (Zoë Winters)—now introducing herself as his “friend, assistant, and adviser”—that his kids are suspicious he’s trying to sire yet another heir. Even Greg’s dating has become transactional; in Italy, he tried to trade up from Ken’s publicist Comfry (Dasha Nekrasova), and now he’s hooking up in Logan’s guest room with a woman glued to social media, who may or may not be engaged in corporate espionage. (Yes, the linchpins in the Pierce bidding war are two feuding couples.) Meanwhile, the siblings’ elder half-brother Connor (Alan Ruck) is days away from marrying a woman (Justine Lupe) he met in her capacity as an escort, who panics upon hearing that he might spend $100 million on his pathetic presidential campaign, until he assures her that after doing so he’d still be rich. “What are people?” Logan asks his security guard and “best pal” Colin (Scott Nicholson), in Sunday’s episode, after leaving his depressing birthday party to mix with commoners at a diner. When she suggests it’s time for them to “move on,” Tom simply replies: “That makes me sad.” Succession creator Jesse Armstrong chooses his words, and plots out his character arcs, carefully, so it doesn’t feel like a stretch to read this as a callback to Tom’s memorable line from the season 2 finale: “I just wonder if the sad I’d be without you is less than the sad I get from being with you.” After a day of bidding against one another in an interfamilial war to purchase the liberal news empire Pierce Global Media—she as a representative of her siblings, he on behalf of their mogul father, Logan (Brian Cox)—Shiv sneaks into their cold, modern home at night, rousing Tom and ending their marriage. Instead of firing back with any zingers of his own, he simply reminds her: “We agreed that we could have a look around while we had a think, right?” When he wants to have the “big talk” they’ve been planning about the future of their marriage, she shuts him down. Sunday’s premiere showed us Ken—already divorced with two kids he rarely sees—taken aback to learn that his sometime girlfriend, Naomi Pierce (Annabelle Dexter-Jones), was spending time with Tom. Tom knows better than to make a big emotional scene—or, for that matter, to point out that his wife isn’t holding her head high so much as she’s holding back tears. First, she makes fun of Tom for palling around with Cousin Greg (Nicholas Braun) as “the disgusting brothers” and sleeping with models.

In the premiere of its fourth and final season, the HBO show offered familiar beats but also a hint of a new direction.

The [script](https://assets.scriptslug.com/live/pdf/scripts/succession-101-celebration-2018.pdf) for the show’s Season 1 premiere, “Celebration,” at one point describes Logan’s entrance into a room as changing its “center of gravity.” He simply is the game—not just the nucleus but also the force by which every other character is defined. Is Nan Pierce, the neutrals-clad, left-leaning matriarch of Pierce, also the ghost of Shiv future? Not in the least; it’s too early in the season for that kind of thing. [weighed his mortality](https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/11/succession-season-3-episode-5/620701/), taking a lonely walk in the park while flanked by his “best pal” and fixer, Colin. This is not to be uncharitable about a show that’s consistently more watchable, more bleakly pleasurable than almost any of its peers. In tonight’s episode, a scene that could have been a devastating autopsy of Shiv and Tom’s marriage was cut off at the head by Shiv’s refusal to participate. I can appreciate the layers of societal critique within this approach, the show’s clear indictment of how the outsized influence of a few emotionally stunted men can contaminate not just their own families but also the entire world. It directly restaged a number of events from the show’s pilot: Logan again reluctantly celebrated a birthday and Kendall again overbid on a media property in order to prove his business acumen to himself and his father. “Tom, I think we could talk things to death, but actually, we both just made some mistakes, and I think a whole lot of crying and bullshit is not gonna help that,” she said. Narratively, Succession is also as circular as a sitcom: It has a tendency to reset itself rather than shake things up in unexpected fashion. (Ask yourself whether Kendall, an adorable dodo princeling, would really use internecine in a sentence, or whether you’ve ever actually heard a person say that word out loud.)

Shiv, Kendall, and Roman convene at a modern mountainside home in the 'Succession' season four premiere.

Lest we forget, these are the children of fictional media mogul [Logan Roy](https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/succession-season-3-all-about-that-hamptons-mansion), who [Forbes](https://www.forbes.com/web-stories/how-rich-is-the-roy-family-on-succession/) estimates is worth a whopping (fictional) $18 billion. At 20,000 square feet, this over-the-top property encompasses an owner’s suite that could serve as its own apartment, plus five guest suites, countless amenities, and a striking silhouette. In real life, the six bedroom, 18 bathroom house known as the San Onofre estate was built by real estate developer [beyond wealthy](https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/succession-filming-locations-you-can-visit). Inside, fan favorite character Roman Roy (Kieran Culkin) is yelling at a Zoom meeting on the television, in a living room surrounded by high glass walls, some fully open to the outdoors, looking out on an infinity pool and sweeping mountain views beyond that. [the hit HBO drama](https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/how-the-high-powered-worlds-of-hbos-succession-are-mastered).

With the Roy siblings (sans Connor) finally working together for once, Logan's unwelcome birthday party goes from bad to worse.

Greg blames the entire incident on Bridget for being insatiably horny and possibly indulging in some “wacky tobacky.” As a result, Colin is assigned to kick her out of the party, and while Greg originally plans to accompany Colin, he chickens out at the last minute. In fact, Greg is such a Disgusting Brother™ that, midway through the party, he tells Tom that he and Bridget hooked up in one of Logan’s guest bedrooms. (“He says he finds me disgusting and despicable, but he kinda smiled,” Greg tells Tom about the conversation with Logan, which, tragically, occurred off-screen.) But just because Greg is still in Logan’s good graces after he sullied his home and roasted him on request, that doesn’t mean Bridget will come away unscathed. “I saw from the calendar update that you’re back in the city tonight,” Tom tells Shiv at the beginning of the episode, which is all the audience needs to know about the sad state of their relationship. At least when Mike Bloomberg [wasted a bunch of his own money](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/us/politics/bloomberg-campaign-900-million.html) on a failed presidential bid, his net worth was in the tens of billions. “You could take it camping, you could slide it across the floor after a bank job,” Tom says. No shade to Roman, but when he’s the voice of reason in a multibillion-dollar bidding war, that’s when you know things have gotten out of hand. Based on what we’ve seen in “The Munsters,” the splintering of the Roy family has been a welcome development for the kids. (Or, at least, for one episode; my money’s on one of them eventually being a turncoat.) For Logan, that means one of his only remaining confidants is Colin, his loyal fixer and security guard, who has covered up all kinds of sketchy shit on his behalf, including Kendall’s involvement with the cater waiter’s death in the Season 1 finale. He’ll never be mistaken for a cheerful individual, but I’ve never seen more disdain in someone who was serenaded with “Happy Birthday” by a bunch of people invited to his party: “Congratulations on saying the biggest number, you fucking morons,” Logan tells the trio over the phone, the only words he exchanges with the group all episode. [explosive events](https://www.theringer.com/succession/2021/12/13/22831617/succession-season-3-finale-recap-logan-wins-tom-shiv) of the Season 3 finale, while Connor is focused on maintaining the literal 1 percent share of voters supporting his presidential bid.

We first met the Pierce family in season two of Succession, when the Roys arrive at Tern Haven, the estate of the Pierces on Long Island.

Even the New York Times [observes](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/04/business/media/hbo-succession-business.html) that the Pierces "seems to be a mash-up of the Sulzbergers and the Bancrofts." Before joining T&C, she was the deputy managing editor at [Hey Alma](https://www.heyalma.com/), a Jewish culture site. has an estate in Southampton and had " [Hillandale](https://www.businessinsider.com/hillandale-estate-connecticut-new-york-mansion-2020-7)," an estate in Connecticut. The Sulzberger family is the publishers of the New York Times. Follow her @emburack on [Twitter ](https://twitter.com/emburack)and His son, Norman Chandler, took the reins next, then Norman's son, Otis Chandler, was the fourth and final Chandler to run the Los Angeles Times. Katharine Graham led The Washington Post from 1963 to 1991; her father, Eugene Meyer, bought the Post in 1933 at a bankruptcy auction. [there are many real-life families that could've inspired the Roys](https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/g20977169/succession-hbo-real-life-families-inspiration/), the Pierces, too, draw on reality. Beginning with Adolph Simon Ochs, who bought the paper as it was facing bankruptcy, the publisher job passed to his son-in-law, Arthur Sulzberger (who married Adolph's only daughter, Iphigene Bertha Ochs Sulzberger), then onto their son-in-law Orvil Eugene Dryfoos, then through generations: Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Sr., Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., and now, A.G. The Bancrofts, notably, sold Dow Jones (owner of the Wall Street Journal) to NewsCrop in 2007. [have a Jewish history](https://www.jta.org/2017/12/18/united-states/the-sulzberger-family-a-complicated-jewish-legacy-at-the-new-york-times), but Sulzberger Jr. We first met the Pierce family in season two of Succession, when the Roys arrive at Tern Haven, the estate of the Pierces on Long Island.

A lot happened in the season premiere of "Succession," kicking off the two-time Emmy-winning HBO show's final flight of episodes, including the ongoing feud ...

Things are so strained as the season begins that Logan’s assistant and now out-of-the-closet girlfriend, Kerry (Zoe Winters), tried to arrange a birthday call between the trio and their dad, only to trigger an awkward negotiation about whether him texting an interest in talking to them would be sufficient. Because to paraphrase Logan, when “Succession’s” good, it’s good. If that wasn’t wildly eventful other than the Shiv-Tom marital strife, stay tuned.

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It's the beginning of the end as the Roy siblings abandon their hopes and dreams to take one last shot at destroying Daddy.

[Thomas Mitchell](/by/thomas-mitchell-h1a2un)is a culture reporter at The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.Connect via Following the deal, Shiv returns to New York for a reunion with Tom. But the tender moment is soon disrupted by news that his children are trying to hijack the Pierce deal; time to bench the vulnerability and switch back to vitriol. The episode ends with a half-asleep Logan tuning into ATN’s nightly chat show, the ageing king surveying the fiefdom. Roman has traditionally been the least eager to challenge Logan, and The Hundred was a way of doing something new without poking the bear. While the kids toast their success, Logan finally reaches out to pass on his best wishes. The crushing insults are still there (“Your face is giving me a headache,” Roman tells Shiv), but they remain a united front – for now. Their latest venture is The Hundred, a “disruptor” news site that would probably be terrible but also something I would likely subscribe to. Firstly, Shiv and Tom are headed for divorce and Tom needs to know he’ll still be an honorary Roy even if he’s no longer married to one. Succession loves a good party scene, even if the celebrations are often tense affairs with very little to celebrate. [the fourth season of Succession would be the last](/link/follow-20170101-p5ctxr). Every week The Age and They Sydney Morning Herald will be recapping the latest episode of Succession.

The first episode of Succession season four sees Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Shiv (Sarah Snook), and Roman (Kieran Culkin) aligned in their quest to take down ...

In non-business dealings, Tom and Shiv seem to be at the end of the road when it comes to their marriage. But will the end of Tom and Shiv's union affect Tom's standing with Logan? “What was the disaster in Maine?” wonders Lawson. Lawson appreciated the scene in which they appear to call it quits. For your own questions, comments, and final season theories, please email [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]). “It fails ten minutes into the episode,” Lawson notes, while pointing out it's shrewd satire of “Rather than deal with any of the way more pressing issues in their lives, they're like ‘Oh, let's start a made-up, fake, bullshit company that has no way of going anywhere,” notes Murphy. “Did she run over one of the Bushes in Kennebunkport on her wood-sided motor boat?” The abandoned business also servers as table setting for the rest of the season. The first episode of Succession season four sees Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Shiv (Sarah Snook), and Roman (Kieran Culkin) aligned in their quest to take down Logan (Brian Cox), delivering the one-two punch of skipping Logan's birthday party and scooping Pierce Media Group up under his very nose. “It's such a rich people thing to be like, 'Oh, I don't care about money. Either way, it seems Nan Pierce needs the money if only to help cover “Anne's disaster in Maine”—whatever that may be.

'The Munsters,' the fourth and final-season premiere of 'Succession,' is full of maneuvering among the Roy family, Nan Pierce's many headaches, ...

Yet in “The Munsters,” his kids finally got one over on him, to the degree that he is the one who calls them on his birthday, instead of the reverse. [the very best](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_gHzyalSwI) to ever have pulled this trick.) And some of it is just mirroring a pilot that featured Logan nearly dying. only for the episode to reveal that Logan stays up late at night watching ATN and calling poor Cyd to complain about what’s on his television. And the episode brings it up enough times to remind you the election is imminent. It adds to the feel of a production of King Lear that’s both funnier and more horrible than you expected. The scene where he’s trying to hype himself up to tell Logan he slept with a girl in the guest bedroom while Logan grows ever-more-fucking furious at the rapidly degenerating Pierce deal is probably the funniest of the episode. I have a case of the vapors!” The world is ending, and Connor and Willa just found out. So for the moment, Tom is riding high, even getting a cryptic reassurance from Logan that his position within ATN might possibly, sort of, kind of in a way remain the same if he and Shiv split up. (Whoever the newly mentioned Jimenez is, they seem to be the Democratic nominee for president.) And the idea the Siblings Roy abandoned in favor of purchasing Pierce was originally hers. As such, in this episode, Kendall and Roman largely cede the floor to their sister when it comes time to make the Pierce deal. The obvious question to ask at the end of season three was: Just how long can the alliance among Kendall, Roman, and Shiv hold?

As the Roy family's fleet of helicopters land for their final outing, there's no point in resisting this sumptuous programme. There really is nothing else ...

Based on the glimmering episodes I’ve seen so far, Succession intends to go out on a peak that people will still be talking about in 20 or 30 years. Yes, I can see that it is sumptuous, dense and brilliant, and that at its best it has some of the finest dialogue not just on TV now but on TV ever. It’s great that it’s a lot of quite nasty, unlikable people being funny. It feels clever in the same way that putting your hand up and saying the right answer in a classroom is clever: in a smug and self-satisfied way. But, sometimes, watching it I feel as if I’m being cornered at a party by someone telling me about a non-fiction book I “have to read” while I watch other people laughing and having fun. I know it’s a thinly veiled portrait of the Murdochs and it’s whip-smart and Machiavellian.

There was plenty to group-text frantically about in the Season 4 premiere of “Succession,” but it's probably best to just let the show speak for itself.

Without further ado, here are the best lines from last night’s episode of Succession, ranked: This line will live in my head for the rest of time, and I’m not happy about it. [new (and final) season](https://www.vogue.com/article/succession-season-4-review) of Succession to hit, and hit it did, premiering on Sunday with a bang and reminding me why I’ve devoted such a significant portion of my limited brain space to understanding the intricacies of Roy family drama.

REVIEW: A requiem for Shiv and Tom, who would like to make love one last time (but can't).

“Do you do all the positions with the models now, Tom?” Kendall ripping through a pile of birthday presents to find the single one from his kids remains firmly lodged in my memory banks. “Did you get buff for the models, Tom?” Shiv asked, clearing the way for divorce talk. “Did you rummage to fruition?” Tom queried, before informing him Logan had cameras in all the bedrooms. We had media mogul lifer Logan Roy stomping around his own birthday party, glaring at guests, grumping about why his kids won’t call him, then leaving early to take his security guard Colin (“My best pal”) out for dinner to share theories about the demise of empires. His marriage of convenience was on the rocks, and he could sense his ship was about to be sent to the bottom of the ocean. Two people, lying on a bed, too exhausted from the pretence of keeping up the charade to go on. This moment came at the end of Succession’s big return, a blockbuster episode that teased a tantalising final smorgasbord of skulduggery. “I could see if I can make love to you,” he said, his raised eyebrows punctuating his desperation. [Siobhan “Shiv” Roy’s](https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/stuff-to-watch/300834261/sarah-snook-wasnt-sold-on-succession-at-first-now-she-feels-a-sense-of-loss?rm=a) eyes pierced right through him. talk?” said Tom Wambsgans, the corporate ladder-climbing schmuck who could see his career, his wealth, his access to power and therefore his entire being, evaporating in front of his eyes. When she spoke, it was in the kind of semi-formal boardroom speak that had come to dominate their relationship.

Succession returns with a crunchy peanut butter of a premiere for its fourth and final season as the Roys prepare to do battle one last time for the Waystar ...

Finally, we come to the last of the Roy children. So, in the midst of Logan’s furious dealings with his children, in the middle of a high-stakes acquisition bid, Greg fails to read the room once again and asks his uncle for a private chat. Some of the finest acting I’ve ever seen, and this in a show filled with brilliant, powerful performances. When Shiv says it’s time to move on from the marriage, all Tom can say is “uh huh.” He tried to talk to her about his feelings but she shut him down, as usual. Logan’s top security guy / bodyguard Colin (Scott Nicholson) informs Greg that he’ll need to search her on the way out and Greg decides he’ll just hang back rather than break the news to his date. Later, Tom approaches Greg to tell him he’s the laughing stock of the entire party for bringing such a grotesque plebe to the private affair. The show opened up on Logan’s 80th birthday, so it’s only fitting that now—three seasons and nearly five years later—we get to watch him grit his teeth at “Happy Birthday To You” being sung by “the monsters” as he calls his too-happy guests. They’re in the process of starting up a new media company called The Hundred which is, according to Kendall, “Substack meets masterclass meets the Economist meets The New Yorker.” It’s a “private members club but for everyone” and “an indispensable bespoke information hub” that offers “high-calorie info-snacks” with the “ethos of a nonprofit but the path to crazy margins.” And so The Hundred is dropped like one of Kendall’s girlfriends and off they rush to buy a dying legacy media brand. She’s walking away with a ridiculous amount of money and a punch to Logan’s kidney. They meet with Nan who is every bit as conniving and money-and-status-obsessed as the Roy family, but too concerned with her image to just admit it. Fast forward to the even of the final sale of Waystar RoyCo in the Season 4 premiere.

Succession star Matthew MacFadyen actor opens up about the final moments on set of the HBO show and his character Tom Wambsgans.

He views his career like the ocean, where the lulls of looking for the next right project are followed by the crest of a really good moment; the trick is to wait for the wave to come. “I love that they’re quite bloody-minded and gladiatorial in that we shoot a 10- or 12-page scene in one continuous take and then do that eight or nine times over,” he explains. “It started to feel like it was more definitive as we got closer to the end, and I trust Jesse and his team to decide how to go out on a high,” he says. “It was pretty brave and cool that he was willing to be the fall guy for the family, and [last season] when he sensed that Shiv [Sarah Snook] was disappointed that he got off the hook, and in fact maybe wanted him to go to jail, it was a death by a thousand cuts,” he explains. He didn’t have the chance to explain his reasons to Shiv, or to have the chance to tell her that there wasn’t anything he did that she wouldn’t have done. He says the cast “sort of knew the end might be coming” and that Armstrong had spoken to them to lay the groundwork for the end while still leaving room to change his mind. “It was sort of awful,” he says. [ breakdown of the show’s single successful marriage](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/succession-season-4-episode-1-shiv-tom-1235360644/); Macfadyen is most moved by his character’s attempts to process the abbreviated split. Despite his often outwardly cheery demeanor and constant quips (episode 401’s riff on Greg’s date’s handbag nearly rivals the great deck shoes castigation of 103), Tom hasn’t been a stranger to melancholy. “In a word, I thought it was great,” he says of the season-three [cliffhanger](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/succession-recap-season-4-premiere-1235353506/) that saw Tom cutting his wife out of her family’s company. [Matthew Macfadyen](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/matthew-macfadyen/) is nothing like Tom Wambsgans. But now, as the high-octane family drama [launches its fourth season](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/succession-season-4-episode-1-shiv-tom-1235360644/), Wambsgans has climbed the ranks to become billionaire Logan Roy’s double-crossing right-hand man — all much to Macfadyen’s delight.

Nan Pierce's home in 'Succession' season 4, episode 1 was shot at what appears to be Eric Schmidt's $30 million Montecito mansion.

[@kristytipsy](https://twitter.com/Kristytipsy/status/1640231779310403584) identified the location shown as Nan Pierce’s home on the show as the Peabody Estate in Santa Barbara, also known as [ Villa Solana](https://robbreport.com/shelter/homes-for-sale/slideshow/10-best-homes-currently-market-southern-california/39-million-santa-barbara-compound/). The property includes 11 acres of land sitting on a hilltop with magnificent ocean and mountain views, and the grounds are a lush collection of palm trees, lemon trees, pomegranate trees, and more. Amid the intense negotiating taking place, Shiv at least still took a moment to compliment Nan (Cherry Jones) on the exquisite estate—the filming location of which has since been identified as a $30 million California mansion belonging to a former tech CEO. The 22,000-square-foot main house comes in at five bedrooms and includes unique design touches like 17th-century French oak paneling and white Alabama marble; there’s also a separate guest house. [Wall Street Journal](https://www.wsj.com/articles/eric-schmidt-montecito-home-11599600051), for the price of $30.8 million—well below the $57.5 million it was [ listed for in 2012](https://robbreport.com/shelter/homes-for-sale/historic-solana-estate-hits-the-market-for-40-million-2810996/). [Succession](https://robbreport.com/tag/succession/) is back, baby, and [season 4](https://robbreport.com/lifestyle/news/succession-season-4-1234728134/) opened with a bang of [stealth wealth](https://robbreport.com/lifestyle/news/succession-billions-details-1234808621/) à la Kendall’s unmarked baseball cap, sprawling vistas that are ignored in lieu of furious phone calls and secretive huddles, and enough [creative uses of the word “fuck”](https://robbreport.com/lifestyle/news/hbo-succession-season-4-gift-bags-fuck-off-1234821024/) to power a small country.

While patricide plan B gets underway, the leggy princeling 'rummages to fruition' at his uncle's superbly squirm-inducing party. Welcome back, Roy-alists!

That sepia title sequence was subtly tweaked, with a shot added of the StarGo app (complete with slow loading). With Logan and his lieutenants at the other end of a phoneline, he was on the back foot for once. [Grey Gardens](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/aug/14/grey-gardens-anniversary-hamptons-documentary), going Mano a Nano”. Their financing was “robust”, but they wouldn’t “take your properties and roll them in the dirt” like evil pater. When Shiv returned to their Broadway apartment to collect some clothes, she and Tom quietly agreed they had reached the end of the road. He tried to lighten the mood by getting his inner circle to give him a “roasting”, but, understandably, they were all too terrified. The contrast between the genteel Pierces, who pretend not to care about money, and the venal Roys, who care about little else, was beautifully portrayed once again. Not to be confused with the gimmicky cricket tournament, this was “a one-stop info shop for smart people”. “I feel like we’re in the middle of a bidding war,” said the pearl-clutching matriarch Nan Pierce (Cherry Jones). Before she was ejected, she and Greg found time for a fumble in a guest bedroom. How about marrying underneath the Statue of Liberty with a brass band and assorted hoopla? His sole confidantes were his “friend, assistant and adviser” Kerry (Zoe Winters) and his bodyguard, Colin (Scott Nicholson).

The kids – Shiv, Roman and Kendall – try to stop dad because they 100 per cent, absolutely, wholeheartedly believe they're entitled to inherit Waystar, so they ...

And Shiv lets on that she and Tom are headed for divorce so there won’t be a conflict between running Pierce and being married to the head of ATN. He agrees and they both sit down on the bed, with their backs to each other. Of course, it has everything to do with Logan, and just like Prince Harry “striking out on his own”, what the Roy kids really want is to be back in the family firm in one way or the other. He wants to properly hash it out but she stops him, “I think it might be time for you and me to move on”. It comes out that Shiv has been staying in a hotel since the start of their trial separation. Tom roasts Greg by convincing his punching bag that Greg accidentally made Logan a sex tape and that the boss watches all the surveillance cameras every night. The prospect of buying Pierce out from under daddy is too enticing for Shiv and Kendall, who immediately smell blood. Why anyone would even want to be in the cesspool that is American public discourse baffles, befuddles and bewilders anyone outside of the US. The mark of a true capitalist. All the hangers-on have turned out to awkwardly sing “Happy birthday” – kaching to the rights owners of that song. It was terribly gauche and not the done thing – and a plot point the writers borrowed from when Princess Diana gifted the Queen the same, not understanding the monarch who has everything preferred homemade jam or whoopee cushions. The old(er) man is wandering the many rooms of his Manhattan townhouse in a spiffy, double-breasted cardigan.

It's all-out war in season four, and we want to know where you stand.

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Shiv, Roman and Kendall listen to a phonecall from their Dad outside under plam trees. The Roys promptly dropped their side hustles when a chance to get back at ...

He contemplated what comes after death (he doesn't think there's much) and tried to find a sense of control after losing the PGM deal by ending his birthday watching ATN News and barking orders at an executive. He cements himself on the second-lowest rung this week when he considers throwing another $100 million at his campaign because "if I were to fall under 1 per cent I would become a laughing stock". Tom lost the deal Logan really didn't want to lose, his wife asked for a divorce in their devastating yet terribly communicated exchange, and Greg decided to break up their bromance by bringing his new girlfriend to Logan's birthday. Kerry is languishing near the bottom this week, but she's one of the closest people to Logan and can't be underestimated – until Logan decides he's done with her. But being in a trio means he'll continue to get outnumbered by Shiv and Kendall, which could lead him to go crawling back to his Dad. Sure, her personal life is in tatters, and she more than likely overpaid for PGM just out of spite, but Shiv can still call this a win.

Succession” producer Scott Ferguson '82 and “American Masters” producer Michael Kantor '83 will discuss their experience in the film industry at Cornell ...

“I hope next week’s screenings and conversations open space to talk with our guest speakers about some of these issues, which are top of mind for many Cornell faculty and students and seem part of Cornell’s core mission ‘to do the greatest good.’” He previously worked on diverse projects, including award-winning films “ [The Normal Heart](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1684226/)” and “ [Temple Grandin](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1278469/).” Tony Fauci’ documentary address inequities, divisions and social problems in the United States that have become increasingly visible over the past several years,” Ryan told The Sun. “For many students at Cornell who are passionate about the arts, it’s really hard to understand what that career path looks like.” The [highly-anticipated](https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/succession-season-4-teaser-trailer-hbo-1234616911/) first episode of the fourth season [aired](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/25/briefing/succession-season-4.html) Sunday. “These are things that aren’t necessarily written down.” [American Masters](https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/anthony-fauci-documentary/23072/?gclid=Cj0KCQjw2v-gBhC1ARIsAOQdKY3usmdecHPwbd-DwxNnvo9gu273dhrisJl2D6Z8nnUyALBSMgKZexQaAj8dEALw_wcB),” which recently spotlighted Anthony Fauci M.D. [Succession](https://www.hbo.com/succession),” having received numerous Emmy, Golden Globe and Critics Choice awards for his work on the hit show. Tony Fauci](https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2023/03/dr-anthony-fauci-md-%E2%80%9966-returns-to-weill-cornell-medicine-for-debut-screening-of-).” Having directed films including “ [Cornerstone](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0275827/),” “ [American Masters Quincy Jones: In the Pocket](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0986445/),” and “ [Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2711748/),” Kantor also studied theater studies at Cornell and received a M.F.A. [Arts Unplugged](https://as.cornell.edu/public-engagement/arts-unplugged) series, which aims to expand the teaching and research of the College of Arts and Sciences, according to Ryan. On Wednesday at 5:30 p.m., Cornell Cinema will screen a sneak-peek from the fourth and final season of “Succession,” followed by a Q&A session with Ferguson and a Zoom visit from “Succession” star [Cornell Cinema’s](https://cinema.cornell.edu/) “ [From the Big Red to the Red Carpet](https://as.cornell.edu/public-engagement/arts-unplugged)” event.

There was plenty to group-text frantically about in Succession's Season 4 premiere, from Cherry Jones's migraine to Shiv's drawstring-pants outfit to Naomi ...