“I wonder if I’ve just thought about it so much in one way or another that I’ve, I don’t know, maybe pre-grieved?” Roman Roy (Kieran Culkin) observes this week at his father’s wake, wondering aloud why Logan Roy (Brian Cox)’s death hasn’t hit him like a speeding train. The line feels like a sly wink to the audience from the writers of Succession, who have after all been teasing Logan’s death since the show’s pilot, forcing us to pre-grieve more or less since minute one. Perhaps the most definitive sign that the show is ready to move on is the reveal in this week’s opening scenes that Shiv (Sarah Snook) is pregnant, presumably with the offspring of Tom Wambsgans (Matthew Macfadyen). One can only assume that the infant is already slimily conspiring in-utero, double-crossing an ovary or blowing obsequious smoke up a fallopian tube.
Coronation demolition derby
