![]() ![]() Lear treats loyalty as a fact so remarkable that its presence doubles as a plot twist. Their performances will carve their kingdom, and this is both a ludicrous circumstance and a logical one: Family, for them, is an endless act of politics. Roman is Cordelia, the youngest and most devoted, unable to turn love into a show. Kendall and Shiv are Goneril and Regan, complying with their father’s demands for flattery. It transports Lear’s famous first scene to a cathedral on the Upper East Side. And Logan’s funeral punctuates the translation. ![]() The declining monarch, the children who compete for his crown, the rotating cast of lackeys and fools: Succession is King Lear, retold for the age of the media empire. They also returned Succession, in its penultimate episode, to its original premise. Their addresses-honest, calculating, and hewing to the talking points-were valedictories for Logan, and for their show. Kendall, ad-libbing, stepped in to speak. ![]() The funeral that had been so carefully scripted suddenly broadcast dead air. His grief overcame him trying to speak, he sobbed. He had “pre-grieved,” he kept telling people, and so could be trusted to fulfill, one last time, the core duty of the family business: to love in a way that moves markets.īut Roman failed. He had practiced the speech in front of a mirror. He had written his eulogy for his father-a great man, he would say, great despite and because of it all-on hot-pink index cards. This story contains spoilers through the ninth episode of Succession Season 4. ![]()
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