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Spoilers for season four, episode three, ofSuccession, Connors Wedding.
(Connor Roymight call it razzmatazz.)
Protagonists collapse; a roaring ambulance arrives.
(Loganhas his fucking doubts.)
The title of the show the whole premise!
is that at some point this exact thing would happen.
Instead, the bottom drops out.
Rather than hitting the target, the rock lands on your foot.
This misdirection plays out in miniature within the episode itself.
An episode called Connors Wedding primes viewers for a glorious family blowout centered on that happy (?)
Theres no specific hovering doom.
Theres just plenty of momentum to carry everyone through this wedding.
When Roman gets the call that Logan is very, very sick, all that narrative momentum halts.
There are stressful phone calls.
Someones getting fired; someone else is maneuvering for more power.
The Roys are aching for certainty or at least for some external signal of how monumental this is.
It would be a relief to get some substantial death scene.
The mostSuccessioncan give us is the background noise of a defibrillator at work.
Theres no drama or power to it, though.
It doesnt look like a death mask.
Its just a body now: confirmation, not commemoration.
And all around the margins, everything keeps chugging along.
Connor, shaken and upset but not flattened, still decides to get married.
Kerry cannot stop smiling and talking about howweirdit all is.
Of course they cant.
There are more phone calls, a press conference.
Logan has loomed over every inch of this show.
But its also the final piece ofSuccessions incredible narrative accomplishment.
Like the Roy siblings, weve been waiting for this moment for so long.
