Television has led us to believe that death is an event for a series finale. But the fourth season of Succession has turned that rule upside down to staggering effect – billionaire patriarch Logan Roy (Brian Cox) died in an early episode, with little fanfare and no scenes of deathbed repentance.
Since then, this show about bickering billionaires has provided viewers with a fascinating study of modern mourning – whether that’s being forced to say goodbye to a loved one over the phone or, in the case of Logan’s estranged son Kendall (Jeremy Strong), hiring a “grief guy” to help him through the bereavement process. “You’re gonna laugh… but there are actually things you can do,” he tells his siblings, with his usual mix of self-deprecation and self-righteousness (“I have a great grief guy, f*** you,” he later retorts when faced with inevitable mockery from his siblings).
