‘Succession’s Brian Cox On Tonight’s Fatal Episode, Keeping Secrets, The Sh*tstorm To Come & Why Jesse Armstrong Needed To Move On

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SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight’s episode of Succession. So stop right now if you don’t want to know what went down. “Today’s the day,” says Logan Roy in tonight’s truly shocking and yet so-expected episode of Succession. “Strategic refocus,” barks the media mogul played by Brian Cox to son-in-law and chief sycophant Tom Wambsgans (Matthew Macfadyen) as they board a private jet to seal a multi-billion sale to streaming kingpin Lukas Matsson (Alexander Skarsgård) and rebuild their empire.

That refocus by the self-professed corporate pirate takes a very different turn when Logan drops dead on the plane. “My suspicion is that it won’t be the kids,” declares Cox of who will ultimately end up being Logan’s successor in the final seven episodes of the fourth and last season of the Emmy-winning Succession. “I think that they will get locked out,” the classically trained Shakespearean actor adds.

As of tonight’s “Connor’s Wedding” episode, penned by series creator Jesse Armstrong and directed by Mark Mylod, that’s all to come.

Tonight, in what has proven the most successful season of Succession so far, the lion in winter roars no more. Playing to some of the most vigorous traits of the HBO satire, a parsed and play-by-play call from Tom on the plane to his estranged wife Siobhan “Shiv” Roy (Sarah Snook) and her perpetually scheming brothers Kendall (Jeremy Strong) and Roman (Kieran Culkin), while the trio is at the ill-starred wedding of half-brother Connor (Alan Ruck), rips apart the offspring’s fragile psyches as the man who has dominated and plagued them for so long is finally gone.