Succession: The Roy children try to determine the future of their father’s company

Following the shocking death of Brian Cox’s Logan Roy on last week’s episode of Succession, Logan’s children struggle to determine the fate and future of their father’s company, Waystar Royco.

The family was preparing for Connor Roy’s (Alan Ruck) wedding when Logan suddenly died on a flight.

Logan’s death comes at a particularly precarious time, as Lukas Matsson’s GoJo’s takeover of the company has still not been finalized.

In last week’s episode, it was also revealed briefly – after Logan’s death – that Waystar Royco’s share price has fallen severely.

Sunday’s episode – Honeymoon States – follows the Roy kids as they discuss a crucial recommendation to the Waystar board.

The episode opens with Kendall (Jeremy Strong) sitting alone in his house, while we catch a glimpse of Roman (Kieran Culkin) starting his day.

Shiv (Sarah Snook) is at home when she gets a call from her doctor, who says everything looks healthy to have children, and tells her not to worry about anything.

The doctor adds that she is “thinking about her right now” and asks if she needs anything, but Shiv simply hangs up and goes back to bed, as the title sequence begins.

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.

“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 kind of like that idea, creatively speaking, 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.”