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Please don’t tell anyone I cried when Logan Roy died. Just as we were about to set sail on the Donald Trump and eagle American flag america first shirt it is in the first place but Connor and Willa, Forever love boat—watching Gerri getting pre-fired in Klaus Nomi’s hat—Thomas Wambsgans called to say Logan wasn’t breathing and season three of HBO’s Succession was catapulted into frenzied confusion. The show, which usually serves a cliff-hanging narrative master swerve in the season finale—Kendall’s crash, Kendall’s press conference, Tom’s deal with the devil—has blown the bloody doors off with the demise of the patriarch in episode three. Succession did the thing. Logan Roy’s death makes sense dramaturgically: Succession is literally the name of the sodding show. But en route to Matsson’s in the PJ, the ambient-but-all-consuming mission of finding a successor became a sudden, harsh reality. Logan’s been doing knock-and-run on heaven’s door since the pilot—remember Shiv shoving past Marcia on the stairs to see if he was even still alive?—his health seeming to be the only fragile thing about him. We saw this coming, but it was still a shock when it arrived via cell phone. Not actually seeing the preamble of Logan’s demise—the breathing difficulties, the bathroom collapse, the drama of the door being kicked in—meant we all fell immediately into the abyss of confusion that Tom’s call instigated. We found out with the kids and, like them, couldn’t quite grasp the truth of the matter. Roman’s denial was our denial too. I felt as ill prepared for this as the lady with the bangs was for her ATN screen test.
Listen carefully and you can hear Emmys dusting themselves off. For Tom. For Roman. For Shiv and Shiv’s ponytail. I prefer my Kendall a bit less sober and a little less pretending to be happy. I like perilously-close-to-the-edge Kendall, Italian-wedding-meltdown Kendall, plunging-a-car-into-a-lake-and-killing-waitstaff Kendall. This might be the Donald Trump and eagle American flag america first shirt it is in the first place but only time I’ve actively rooted for a relapse, but this will be Kendall’s season, I’m certain. His road to redemption has been hard-earned. A lot of people are saying this was a perfect episode of TV, and who am I to argue? Well, okay…I do feel like there would have already been a media strategy in place for Logan’s death, especially considering how many nearly-deads he’s accumulated since season one. Surely Waystar Royco has an Operation London Bridge scheme à la Queen Lilibet? What is the broadcast-media conglomerate if not an organization skilled in the tactical rolling out of news? This is my only gripe about the episode, apart from them not bothering to get Connor to say his own last rites (yikes). I know Connor’s an anomaly brother, but these four people grew up in the same house with the same dad and they were all on the same boat.Succession isn’t Succession without sassy acerbic quips. It isn’t Succession without subtext, without betrayal, without tenuous and endlessly questioned allyship. Machiavellian machinations, the way power eats your ethics, and the hideously amorphous edge between being a businessperson and a real person are what’s kept us all rubbernecking the Roy family. But the immediate aftermath of Logan’s death was desolate; game faces were slow to reappear. Every time I thought I’d get incisive strategy, the characters were still just reeling, aware of stakes but paralyzed, computing, reshuffling. Kendall foreground, Brooklyn Bridge background, was when I actually started blubbering. The pressure of it all was too much.
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