How the mighty have fallen. Warning: This post contains spoilers for Season Four of 'Succession.'
), who have been in turns tormented and built up by their dad, his passing is not a"ding-dong, the wicked dad is dead" moment, but rather something fragile and hard to accept, like grief, for any other family., Cox said the death “ the stakes” of the show. “The main protagonist is gone. And the kids are having to deal with it, or not.”
At the time, Logan is separated from the rest of his family. The Roy kids have gathered at Connor's wedding to Willa Ferreyra — which almost didn't happen, after Willa ran away during the rehearsal dinner. A majority of the episode takes place on the boat, where the Roy kiddos process the news. Shiv ignores calls from her husband, Tom Wambsgans , and Tom eventually gets through to Roman with the news that Logan is “very, very sick,” and the situation is “very, very bad.” Crouched over the phone, Kendall tries to find someone"medically competent."They listen through phone calls with advisers as chest compressions on Logan go nowhere.
“When we started shooting those sequences on the plane, I felt oddly kind of squeamish. … with showing the character at all,” he said. “We made a choice to show him once quite specifically. And parts of his torso at certain points with the shock treatment. It felt oddly kind of disrespectful in some way.”Three of the Roy siblings get to speak to Logan one more time, as Connor opts not to, though they're not sure if Logan can hear.
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