‘Succession’ Season 3 Recap: 5 Things to Remember Before Watching Season 4

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“Succession” is back at long last. The fourth and final season of the lauded HBO series is kicking off Sunday night, but given the copious amounts of backstabbing, undercutting and verbal sparring that’s gone on throughout the show’s first three seasons, you’d be forgiven for forgetting exactly where things left off when we last caught up with the Roy family.

That’s where we come in.Ahead of “Succession” Season 4, we’ve got a recap of key plot points you’ll need to remember from Season 3 – specifically from that jaw-dropping finale – to make sure you’re primed for the latest (and last) round of power struggles.

As Tom and Greg so pointedly put it, “We hear for you.”While Season 3 found Logan (Brian Cox) and Roman (Kieran Culkin) courting tech company GoJo for an acquisition, the finale turned the tables as GoJo CEO Lukas Matsson (Alexander Skarsgard) proposed GoJo acquiring Waystar and positioning himself as the one to take over the company.

He promised he would “rate” each of Logan’s kids fairly, and keep those who were up to snuff.Logan then began negotiations to accept Matsson’s offer, keeping the kids out of it, which of course rankled Shiv (Sarah Snook), Kendall (Jeremy Strong) and Roman who would no longer be in line to take over.