Major spoilers below for Succesion’s jaw-plummeting latest episode, “Connor's Wedding,” so be warned if you haven’t yet watched!
Holy mother of all that is WTF-alooza, Succession went and dropped its biggest father-lode bombshell on both viewers and the Roy siblings (among plenty of others baked into the HBO drama’s upper crust) in only the third episode of the fourth and final season. Brian Cox’s brutal and overbearing corporate genius Logan Roy is now dead, despite whatever “they faked it” theories may follow, and creator Jesse Armstrong & Co. crafted a spectacularly unique TV approach to a major character’s death episode. And part of its uniqueness was the abundant and authentic wave of awkwardness, in place of more traditional sorrowl, due to an onslaught of shock and purposefully obscured clarity.
