“I feel knocked out.
I did not sleep".
“Actually, I'm fine.
I just didn't see it coming."
"For some of us it's a sad day, but for others it's coronation demolition."
Each of the sentences is said by each of the three brothers who are behind the succession of the empire, precisely
Succession
, the HBO series that on Easter Sunday had an episode in which everything was turned upside down.
We already said it: no member of the Roy family can invite him to eat a barbecue at home.
They are unscrupulous, liars, unreliable, eternally conspiring, advantageous, far-fetched.
Are you prepared for what is coming?
Logan Roy (Brian Cox) talks with his son Roman from the car, heading to take the plane, where...
I'm not saying you viewers, and I'm including myself, but the Roy brothers.
From here, what follows will have logical spoilers about what happened in Episode 3 of the fourth and final season of
Succession
.
But what happened?
In the third episode of
Succession
,
Connor's Wedding
, Connor (Alan Ruck) and Willa Ferreyra (Justine Lupe) are getting married.
His brothers Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Shiv (Sarah Snook) and Roman (Kieran Culkin) arrive at the pier and board the luxury boat, which will take them to an island, where the wedding ceremony will take place.
Shiv (Sarah Snook) speaks to her father, not knowing if he is listening or not.
They know that their father, Logan (
Brian Cox
), will not be attending, because he is flying to talk Swedish businessman, Lukas Matsson (Alexander Skarsgard), into selling his company, Waystar Royco.
Out of the blue, Roman receives a call from Tom (
Matthew Macfadyen
), who is separating from Shiv, advising him that his father collapsed in the bathroom of the private plane and is receiving CPR.
One by one, not knowing if his father is listening or not, on the other side of the cell phone, the children try to give him words of encouragement and love.
After the end of the episode, the
Los Angeles Times
was the most extreme: it published an obituary of Logan Roy, as if he were a real, real businessman.
Standing.
Logan and his ex-son-in-law, Tom (Matthew Macfadyen), before hopping on the private plane, in the shocking third episode.
When to watch the fourth episode
It premieres this Sunday, April 16, at 11 p.m. in Argentina.
And it can be seen both on cable, on HBO and on streaming, if you subscribe to HBO Max.
what's coming
"My sister is crazy.
My brother is a disaster ”, confides Roman.
“Who would we prefer, one of us, or one of the old guard”, you will hear him say before.
“The only one who supported you is dead,” Karl (David Rasche) tells Tom.
“Dad died.
We have to lean on each other,” Ken wields.
"What about me?
Hit it, lie to me,” says Shiv.
Roman records a message to his father.
He doesn't know what is happening.
"It's a trusted brand," Ken tries to convince the Swede to buy the company.
“You call it a trusted brand?
It's a parts store.
Good pieces, bad brand”.
Negotiation, if possible, will not be easy.
Meanwhile, Connor, the older brother - Logan's son, but from a different mother from the other three - continues with his presidential race.
“I'm blowing up in Alaska,” he confides, as if that guarantees him anything.
If the series is called as it is called (
Succession
), it is clear that in the next seven episodes the fight will be even more stark than when the brothers fought against their father -although Roman and Shiv, in different seasons, played two ends-.
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The brothers, before the press.
Then again, Brian Cox himself was surprised by his sudden departure from the series.
“Jesse Armstrong called me -the author- and told me: 'Logan is going to die.'
And I thought, 'OK.
I thought he would die in episode 7 or 8, but in episode 3… Well, that's a bit early,' he launched.
He laughed and said, 'Not that it bothered me,'” Cox confided to
The New York Times
.
“They had to end it somehow, and it was Jesse's choice.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, the problem with a lot of television, particularly American TV, is that it's past its expiration date.
And the great thing about Jesse and the show's writers is that they don't do that.
It was difficult for them, ”he maintained.
Connor (Alan Ruck) and Willa Ferreyra (Justine Lupe), before the wedding.
But were there valid reasons for them to kill him that way, more or less in peace, by the way?
“I think there are a lot of reasons Jesse killed him.
And I applaud the fact that he did it.
He was brave because everyone loves show business.
Always leave the party when it is at its best, not when the foam is going down.
Cox also responded about how he thought audiences for the series would take his character's departure.
“The public could be furious.
They can miss Logan and say, 'But what are you doing killing off one of the most interesting characters?'
But it's okay.
I am doing many other things.
I'm going back to the theater.
I hope to direct my first film in my old age.
And I'm preparing the play
Long Day's Journey into Night
in London, which will be released in the spring of 2024. So I know what I'm going to be doing probably until next summer”.
Gerri (J. Smith-Cameron) learns from Roman, her ex-lover, that she has been fired.
But...
“Change the bets.
The main protagonist is gone.
And the children have to deal with it, or not.
I think next week is going to be difficult for a lot of the public, because they're going to miss Logan.
And I don't think that's a bad thing,” she expressed.
Why was Logan the way he was, so... pitiful?
“It is very easy to turn people into villains.
But here you are looking at a self-made man, who made certain decisions that set him on a path that is not very pleasant.
He probably had a lot of ambition.
He wanted to make things right, and it all went wrong for him."
"And then the kids come along, and he can't deal with how they behave when he knows how hard it's been for him to do what he's done, and they don't have any idea what it means. I think that's where the problem lies." depth of the show; that's where it becomes not just a social satire but a real drama," he said.
Brian Cox defends the author's decision, and also makes it clear why his character was so... deplorable.
Villain with (some) goodness
“I don't judge him in one sense.
But in another sense, I judge him.
I think it is extremely stupid.
But then, my job is not to give my point of view, my job is to say: 'This is the man.
Like it or not, here he is.
And I'll infuse him with all the complications we have.'”
“I think it's very misunderstood.
It all went terribly wrong.
We have these little moments in the history of the mother, the relationship with the brother.
That's where he becomes a human being, because he's full of weaknesses and all the problems we all have on a day-to-day basis, and all the horrible decisions we make or don't make."
Well, the problems, now, are their children.
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