Anyone excited for the final season of Succession? *Spoiler alert*

And Logan has changed his will? Maybe the manicness of her reaction was because she has now become obscenely wealthy?

'now we have everyone scheming and it’s going to be much more interesting.

What a bloody show.'

Quite!

I've give up trying to decide who's the best actor out of all of them. They're just so brilliant

I also don’t care who comes out on top (I don’t think. Maybe not Karl 😁) but look forward to seeing how we get there.

I keep thinking yes but then thinking it's a bit soap opera for Succession. We'll have to wait and see.

Sarah Snook was pg in real life during the filming of the last series. She is quoted as saying “you couldn’t see it”, “there were lots of cushions” so I don’t think that Shiv is pv in the script. But what do I know?!

Rewatching it now. Connor’s “He never even liked me” is so painful.

This whole show is “they fuck you up, your mum and dad” writ large isn’t it.

I agree a change to Logan’s Will, massively benefitting Kerry, would be a bit soap for Succession. (Though I imagine she’d get something.) Logan wasn’t blindly smitten - we saw that through his indirect rejection of her audition tape last week. She was just a convenient cheer leader in the sad absence of supportive wife or offspring.

The way the private jet contingent looked at her with one voice - all thinking “You’re fired!” was magical. I’m longing to see her realise that, so wouldn’t welcome anything twisty there.

*slight spoiler if you don’t intend to watch pre season trailer…

If you look at the mid season trailer then Kerry is on there looking v upset about something

Oh good lord, I just watched the mid-season trailer and my heart is pounding. It is EXHILARATINGLY awful/frightening/witty/absurd/vicious/hilarious. 'Those darn naysayers.'

And some beautiful and rugged Swedish/Nordic locations, it looks like. Bring it ON!

I’m quite glad Logan’s dead - the rest of the series playing our as kids vs Logan would potentially have felt a bit familiar

I agree with this, much as I love the show a whole other series of it would have been boring.

I saw a spoiler on the Yahoo homepage so I knew what was coming sadly. It was still a fantastic episode though. On a shallow note I loved Shiv’s outfit although thought it was a bit funereal for a wedding but it turned out appropriate in a way.

It turns out there is no dignified way to get a body off an aeroplane. I found that sobering, the great Logan Roy wheeled off on a trolley on an airfield.

Yes - Shiv’s funereal wedding outfit really should have been a clue!

It had me scratching my head and thinking how she would have been torn apart if she’d suggested it on S&B!

I thought maybe Shiv had come to bury her own marriage rather than celebrate Connor's! (Roman did make the comment about the death of romance as well).

Now the shock has started to wear off, Logan's death does seem like the right plot twist at the right time. I think I had assumed the series would end with Logan triumphant but completely isolated, and the kids broken (although decidedly not broke). However, in effect that's how season 3 ended. I do think it's even more of a shame there won't be a season 5, although we have 7 episodes left to explore the Logan legacy. It feels at the moment slightly uneven - the show was always leading up to this but this gamechanging event happens not in the middle nor at the end.

The Succession podcast for this episode is worth a listen - interview with Jesse A and then Brian Cox. It explains why the death needed to take place in this episode.

There is also a great interview with Brian Cox on the Alistair Campbell podcast!
Shiv's outfit choices have always puzzled me...she must have shoppers/stylists but always looks a bit off.

Agree. But when this is brought up on MN, posters are accused of being shallow. :) I like her workwear better than her casual wear, though.

The other thing that bothers me slightly is that Shiv looks nothing like Roman and Kendall: different ethnic type.

I wondered if Shiv has wanted to distance herself from the 'trophy' women in that world, by not being ultra groomed or overly concerned with fashion. I googled Elisabeth Murdoch (not that the Roys are the Murdochs of course) and she does seem to dress quite simply.

Maybe we're meant to think that Logan was strawberry blonde or had reddish-brown hair when he was younger (Brian Cox didn't) and that Roman and Kendall take more after their mum?

I'll hold my hands up to being shallow😁
It just seems a bit incongruous. Roman is always very sharp looking.

I don't think I could cope with a season where Geri is mean to him either

Another thing: has anyone noticed Kendall always wears brown when dressing casually? A sort of dusty mole colour. I wonder if that is intentional. To show how insecure he was and is.

I notice these things!

I’ve been to weddings in the US and black is completely acceptable and normal, to the point where I got quizzical looks when I asked if it was ok if I wore it.

I think Roman’s clothes always look slightly crumpled and ill-fitting. Particularly his shirts, which always look to me like he’s done a button up wrong or they’re a bit small.
It’s not helped by his typical slightly cringing bearing and body language.
The effect is of a schoolboy stuffed unwillingly into his clothes, which to me reflects his divided feelings about his family and status: he loves the perks but feels a bit unsuited for and uncomfortable in the role.

Yes, Roman always looks as though his clothes are slightly too small for him and he never looks comfortable.

I think that's intentional too, as is the way Kieran Culkin is always twisting himself into the foetal or half bent position:)

I may be doing them too much credit but I can’t help but think they are all deliberate decisions. Shiv wants to rule the corporate world but can’t quite hit the stylistic mark. Roman is in expensive suits but is so crippled with his emotions he can’t pull them off. Even Logan’s cable knit jumper in the credits makes me laugh because it gives “cuddly grandpa” vibes and he couldn’t be less so. Tom always looks sharp though!