What that bonkers ‘Succession’ finale means for the Roys in Season 4
With a flip of the screw and directions to “fuck off,” one other season of Succession has come to an finish.
On Sunday evening, HBO aired the explosive Season 3 finale of its Emmy Award-winning satirical drama a couple of morally bankrupt media empire and the billionaire household who owns it. Titled “All the Bells Say,” this episode is certainly one of the most momentous so far — packed wall to wall with main plot developments and a few of the finest appearing the collection has ever seen. That the wedding ceremony at the finale’s middle (one between Logan’s former spouse Caroline Collingwood and her new beau Peter Munion) barely will get seen speaks volumes to only how a lot occurs throughout and round it.
This sensational hour of TV is value watching sans spoilers. So if you happen to’re operating behind, attempt to cue it up on HBO Max earlier than somebody provides it away. However if you happen to’re already caught up and questioning about subsequent season, then you definately’ve come to the proper place for theorizing. Here is a sampling of the many, many questions we’ve after that unbelievable cliffhanger; plus, a wholesome dose of hypothesis about what Succession Season 4 may deliver.
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What’s subsequent for Kendall after his large admission to Shiv and Roman?
Aw, you guys have been prepared for like a “good” wedding ceremony.
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Kendall’s destiny hung in the steadiness at the begin of the episode, with followers frightened an ominous shot of him face-down in a swimming pool signaled his premature loss of life final week. The finale mercifully wasted no time revealing Kendall survived the near-drowning. (“Too many limoncellos,” he says.) However the former CEO and estranged son remains to be removed from OK.
Throughout the finale, in a fever pitch of emotion, Kendall collapses on the streets of Tuscany. He then admits to Roman and Shiv that he was accountable for the loss of life of Andrew Dodds, the waiter whose unintentional drowning concluded Season 1.
“I used to be excessive and I used to be seeking to rating and I used to be drunk and I used to be fucked up and I drove,” Kendall recollects. “And [the kid] noticed one thing and snatched at the wheel and we went into the water. After which I left him there and ran.”
The siblings’ response is subdued, bordering on glib. “I’ve killed a child, haven’t you?” Roman asks his sister, whose affirmative response we are able to solely hope can also be a joke. It is a macabre second of bonding for the siblings, eerily paying homage to the jokey time they shared the evening earlier than Shiv acquired married — and Andrew died.
No matter how calmly Roman and Shiv took Kendall’s request for forgiveness, their figuring out comes with critical implications. Not solely does it put Kendall one step nearer to touchdown in jail for his crimes (free lips, and many others.), but it surely additionally threatens to disclose Logan’s complicity and function in the subsequent cover-up.
In fact, Roman and Shiv are additionally implicated if they do not instantly inform the police of what they’ve simply realized. So, it is a bit of a fuck pie — if you happen to’ll pardon the present’s distinctive expression — with nebulous outcomes but to be decided.
What does the WayStar RoyCo and GoJo merger imply?
Sure to extra Alexander Skarsgård!
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That mentioned, now is not a good time for Logan’s children to have such damning data on him. In spite of everything, he did simply burn them worse than they’ve ever been burned, successfully eradicating Kendall, Shiv, and Roman from WayStar RoyCo management and jeopardizing their monetary futures.
Season 3’s largest growth got here in its remaining moments, with Logan saying his plans to promote WayStar RoyCo to streaming firm GoJo. Recall that the merger had been a plot level in previous episodes, however all the time with the intention of GoJo being bought to WayStar RoyCo and never the different means round.
In promoting the firm for $5 billion — chump change to the omnipresent CEO, as he admits — Logan is completely distancing his children from the firm and successfully handing energy to GoJo CEO Lukas Matsson (Alexander Skarsgård).
“This is a chance for you children to get an schooling in actual life,” Logan reassures them, earlier than not so sweetly telling them to fuck off.
The youngsters’ short-lived maneuver to forestall this switch of energy, we study, was undermined by their mom Caroline. Mere minutes earlier than Kendall, Shiv, and Roman tried to confront their father about the sale, Caroline agreed to restructure her and Logan’s divorce settlement.
“Peter is so excited,” she says, indicating the deal significantly advantages her new husband.
The specifics of how precisely the children acquired screwed over listed here are a bit murky, but it surely seemingly removes any leverage they might have had by combining the energy of their board seats. What this means virtually for their roles inside WayStar RoyCo hasn’t been spelled out, however Shiv summed it up tidily when she mentioned: “We simply walked in on Mother and Dad fucking us.”
Who bought out Kendall, Shiv, and Roman — and why was it undoubtedly Tom?
Tom Wambsgans strikes once more.
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The regular unraveling of Tom Wambsgans was a serious supply of leisure this season as he narrowly averted going to jail for the cruises scandal. Headed into Season 4, the would-be sacrificial lamb is again in energy due to some shifty deal-making that screwed over his spouse.
After studying that Caroline bought out her children, Shiv wonders aloud how information acquired again to Logan so shortly after she, Kendall, and Roman made their plan to intercede in the sale. Some heavy narrative suggestion signifies it was most likely Tom who advised Logan about their plan. However extra concrete than Logan and Tom’s lengthy hey in that shadowy hallway (or the Roman myth Tom shared with Greg a couple of episodes again) is the gem of information Caroline nonchalantly drops throughout Logan’s large reveal.
“Rex Hendon is coping with all of it,” the back-stabbing mother says of the modifications to her youngsters’s stake in the firm. It is a title we have heard earlier than — when Tom referred to as that identical mysterious, high-powered lawyer in Season 3, episode 3.
How Rex suits into the dethroning of WayStar RoyCo’s crown princes and princess will take quite a lot of explaining (and truly casting a Rex.) However for now, we all know the pivotal participant has adequately propped up Tom such that he isn’t in jail, again in Logan’s good graces, and possibly even headed in direction of some success of his personal. Nonetheless, Tom and Shiv might not be Tom and Shiv for for much longer. And you understand what they are saying a couple of girl scorned.
Is Logan actually attempting to have a child with Kerry?
(*4*)
Perhaps he simply likes smoothies? (In all probability not.)
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Lastly, there’s the large wild card of the season: That weird-ass smoothie root.
With Logan’s heirs obvious in the doghouse, the query of the tyrannical titan’s legacy looms massive. Connor suspects his dad is likely to be scheming to have one other baby along with his government assistant Kerry. (Bear in mind, Logan and his present spouse Marcia are barely talking.) However in need of a supposedly sperm-multiplying ingredient Connor finds going into certainly one of Logan’s smoothies, we do not have lots to substantiate that.
It is an interesting dangler in a finale filled with issues to mull over. Is Logan actually so finished along with his children that he needs to attempt once more with a brand new child? As a result of in that case, they will not take that properly — and, based mostly on Logan’s observe document, the child will not accomplish that scorching both.
