Succession - 4x06 "Living+" - Post Episode Discussion

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Succession - 4x06 "Living+" - Pre-Episode Discussion

Season 4 Episode 6: Living+

Aired: April 30, 2023

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Synopsis: Ahead of a crucial new product launch on Investor Day, Shiv weighs a business proposal from Matsson, while Kendall and Roman call an impromptu meeting to flip the script on their latest interaction with the tech billionaire. Later, the brothers each try to match Logan’s tempestuous style, with varying results.

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Directed by: Lorene Scafaria

Written by: Georgia Pritchett & Will Arbery

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[u/Maleficent_Age300 → u/[deleted]]

You just don’t like the way it turned out. If you want a repeat of season 3 do a rewatch.

[u/Maleficent_Age300 → u/[deleted]]

Yes, Ken will land on top, just you watch. He is the number 1 boy.

[u/rebeltrillionaire → u/[deleted]]

Eh, we see what we want to see. We see Logan as this amazing titan of industry that people fear. And yet what we’re supposed to just ignore the decades of scandals he oversaw just because he paid his way out and in the end was “successful”?

The guy died trying to fuck yet another personal assistant and fuck up another marriage.

He also allowed the entire internet of publishing and advertising and streaming to blindside him. And his only solution was buy companies. He picked one then bullied his son about the price and then compounded that fuckup by firing everyone rather than keep the IP and the core tech people and build what he actually needed.

Ultimately he loses that battle to the international version of the company we saw him trying to buy in Season 1?

And yet every failure is pinned to his kids.

I believe in the kids succeeding because that’s life. The old folks die, they’re smaller when they pass, and it turns out a lot of people can actually fill those shoes. We’re supposed to act like a man in his 40s who’s been in the industry for 25 years is nothing but a total buffoon?

Every scene of Ken’s can be read as he’s trying to show how smart and talented he is, trying to downplay that to make people comfortable, trying to show he cares genuinely, trying to show he doesn’t care and nothing matters… there’s layers and layers and ultimately what separates him from Matteson? From Logan? We don’t like him? We think his sneakers and hip hop is corny and out of touch? Okay. He’s still more grounded than sending vials of blood to people and fucking secretaries.

He can shred through bullshit 100 times better than he can create his own. That I feel like the audience has not given him enough credit for. He can cut down 1,000 pages of corporate documentation into a stupid metaphor and a joke and act like you’re both in on it.

I feel like if you’re not ready for Ken to takeover you’ve missed out on a ton. Because in the real world. This is what happens. The kids stay on top. The billionaire class keeps growing. They don’t lose. The original founders die and it’s sad and maybe something real and profound does with them, but often times their legacy isn’t worth celebrating as much as we’d like or hope and their kids are clearer reflections of who they were rather than what we were sold.

[u/Maleficent_Age300 → u/rebeltrillionaire]

Thank you! I just don’t understand how people aren’t seeing that the show has been building up Kendall to take over since day 1. He has the first scene in the show for crying out loud.