The massive merger between the Roy family’s Waystar Royco and Lukas Matsson’s (Alexander Skarsgard) GoJo is officially announced in the sixth episode of Succession’s fourth and final season.
The kids Roy – Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Roman (Kieran Culkin) and Shiv (Sarah Snook) prepare for their company’s annual Investor Day, where the official announcement will be made.
While Kendall and Roman were named interim CEOs following the surprise death of their father Logan (Brian Cox), Shiv has been meeting with Matsson, with the possibility that she could play a much bigger role in the new company.
Shiv’s estranged husband Tom (Matthew Macfadyen) warns her in the show’s preview to keep all her options open and to be careful.
Shiv also expresses concern that her brothers could say anything they wanted at the Investor Day presentation.
Investor Day: The massive merger between the Roy family’s Waystar Royco and Lukas Matsson’s (Alexander Skarsgard) GoJo is officially announced in the sixth episode of Succession’s fourth and final season
Lukas: While Kendall and Roman were appointed interim CEOs following the surprise death of their father Logan (Brian Cox), Shiv has been meeting with Matsson, with the possibility that she could play a much bigger role in the new company.
Shiv: Shiv’s estranged husband Tom (Matthew Macfadyen) warns her in the preview of the show to keep all her options open and to be careful
The episode opens with a shot of Logan Roy filming something about the Living Plus real estate brand becoming part of their real estate division.
The director stops him, telling him to be “cheerier” for the video, but Logan continues to resist.
We see Kendall watching the video as Logan yells at everyone around him saying they are as useless as my damn idiot kids.
Hugo (Fisher Stevens) apologizes for what Logan said, but Kendall says it’s “fine” and it’s just like a “Valentine’s Card,” asking to watch the video again.
Shiv is on her plane waiting for it to refuel when she is joined by Lukas, who tells her he doesn’t want to go through with the Living Plus takeover.
He asks why they are doing this as he doesn’t want Living Plus, but Shiv says they didn’t want it to “look like we were just watching the shop until you came in” although he says that’s exactly what she doing. doing.
He says he doesn’t need it and adds, “You do you know how shitty and heartbreaking it is to be cooped up on a cruise? How about that, but you can also stay in the same place all the time?” I’m not going any further, so why announce it?”
Matsson says he hates it, but he likes that he has Shiv on the “inside” who “gets” him, but Shiv says, “Maybe I hate you.”
“Maybe I love my brothers very much,” she says, and Matsson adds, “Oh, by the way, they already said they were crazy about me,” adding that it was “totally unprofessional.”
She adds, “You know, I’m going to tell my brothers everything you said,” and he adds, “Cool.” Do that. Nothing to hide, nothing I wouldn’t tell them myself.’
Back at Waystar headquarters, Kendall and Roman alert the senior team that they are concerned about the deal and the acquisition of Matsson.
When they tell everyone about their conflicts with Matsson, Kendall and Roman are alone with Shiv when she realizes her brothers are trying to thwart the deal.
‘The plan was always: we came away clean. Do Pierce, buy Pierce together. What the hell happened?’ asks Shiv.
“Shiv, maybe we can keep it, and Pierce, all of us,” Kendall says, with Shiv adding, “Oh, man, you f***ing c**ksuckers.”
They both apologize and insist they wouldn’t have ‘d***ed’ you as they embrace.
Shiv is planning a conference room when she starts to cry, as her estranged husband Tom enters the room.
She says to him: ‘Yes. I’m just really busy. And… I’ve noticed I’m too busy, what about my dad. And so, uh, sometimes Sarah’s found me somewhere so I can… just cry.”
Tom adds, “Do you plan your grief?” but she tells him to fuck off but instead he gives her a hug and they start kissing.
Kendall and Roman read out a statement their father made before he passed, saying they will not be at Investor Day.
They start talking about Matsson, adding that they don’t think he has more “juice” than 192, which is $192 a share before the merger.
Roman meets Joy (Annabeth Gish), the head of Waystar Studios, who is concerned that ATN has a ‘direct line’ to Mencken and their coverage of him.
Roman says he plans to dump a lot of money into the network and wants the ‘hit machine’ to keep pumping… but she doesn’t seem to be on the same wavelength as Roman… so he fires her.
She tells him this is a mistake, but he has clearly made up his mind before leaving the room.
Kendall meets with his Investor Day prep team and tells them he wants them to build a Living Plus home in one day, which is quite a daunting task.
Roman meets Kendall, who tells him he has some thoughts about Investor Day.
Tom is seen mixing at a mixer reception for Investor Day when he meets Shiv, who asks him who he likes at the party, who would he meet up with.
While the Roy kids were at odds throughout most of the series, the last few episodes of season 3 found them finally joining forces to stop their father Logan from selling the family’s media conglomerate.
Little did they know that the black sheep of the family Tom Wambsgans (Matthew McFadyen) betrayed his own wife Shiv and informed Logan of what they were doing, giving him enough to remove their power to block the impending sale .
The final shots of Season 3 seemed to indicate that Shiv realized her husband had betrayed her, though it’s unclear how that will play out in Season 4.
Successor Jesse Armstrong first confirmed that Season 4 will be the end of the show in an extensive interview with The New Yorker, where he was asked why he decided to confirm the final season before it debuted.
Kids: Kids Roy – Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Roman (Kieran Culkin) and Shiv (Sarah Snook) prepare for their company’s annual Investor Day, where the official announcement will be made.
Opportunities: While the Roy kids were at odds throughout most of the series, the last few episodes of season 3 found them finally joining forces to stop their father Logan from selling the family’s media conglomerate
“First, we could have said it as soon as I made up my mind, almost as we were writing it, which I think would be weird and perverted,” Armstrong began.
“We could have said it at the end of the season. I think that idea is really good, creative, because then the audience can just enjoy everything as it comes, without trying to figure things out or perceive things a certain way once they know it’s the final season,” he added.
“But also the counterintuitive is that we don’t hide the ball very much on the show. I feel a responsibility to the viewing public and I personally wouldn’t like to feel like, ‘Oh, that’s it, guys. That was the end.” I wouldn’t like that in a show. I think I’d like to know it’s coming to an end,” he clarified.
He added, “And there’s a lot of prosaic stuff too, like it might be weird for me and the cast when we do interviews.” It’s pretty definitively the end, so it might be uncomfortable to have to feign about it like a politician for ages. Hopefully the show is against bulls**t, and I wouldn’t like to bulls**** anyone if I talked about it.”