![]() Connor (Alan Ruck), the eldest Roy child, spends the eve of his wedding mournfully belting Leonard Cohen’s Famous Blue Raincoat. If you’ve ever wondered what each member of the Roy family would sing at karaoke - a Rorschach test for someone’s character - this episode provides at least one answer. And later, all of them, Logan included, have a real family meeting - the kind that they should have had during their publicity stunt of a family therapy session in season one - in a private room at a karaoke bar that resembles a spaceship, colored lights dancing across the walls in stark dissonance with the gravity of their meeting. At one point, the Roy children find themselves in a dive bar. He’s not the only one in this episode to roam in unexpected places. You’d hardly believe this was a man who was considering retirement back in season one.Īnd he makes an announcement that sends a shiver down every employee’s spine: He’s going to be spending a lot more time at ATN. He’s bursting with youthful ambition and a fervor to conquer the world. ![]() He’s a football coach before the big game, and he’s going to steer ATN through a new, irrepressibly bold new age. I’m going to build something better,” Logan vows to the ATN staff. Logan in the cavernous ATN newsroom feels uncomfortable not because he’s breathing down everyone’s neck - though he is - but because the lights are too bright, laying bare that Logan Roy is just an ordinary little man, the kind who stands on top of boxes of paper to give an awkwardly bombastic speech to the ATN employees. “It’s like Jaws,” Greg frets, “if everyone in Jaws worked for Jaws.”īut it’s hard not to notice that Logan is a shark out of water. He’s “terrifyingly moseying” around the floor of the newsroom, Greg (Nicholas Braun) tells Tom (Matthew Macfadyen), as if looking for prey to kill. On the precipice of selling Waystar to tech company GoJo, Logan (Brian Cox) ignites panic when he unceremoniously drops by the headquarters of his news network, ATN. Everyone wants to prove that they’re standing just a little bit taller than their enemies, and to do it, they’re moving in unfamiliar spaces. ![]() Rehearsal, the second episode of the last season of Succession, is an episode full of speeches, pitches, and, as always in Succession, power plays. Note: This article contains spoilers for several Succession episodes, particularly season four, episode two, “Rehearsal.”
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