'Succession was never really about Logan Roy'
, and Logan’s self-described “friend, assistant, and adviser” Kerry if he hadn’t been traveling across continents to see Lukas Matsson while the rest of the family was attending his oft-forgotten eldest son Connor’s wedding. It’s a fitting demise, because it captures the whole point of Logan as a character: he makes monstrous decisions from on high and then leaves everyone around him to cope with the consequences.Macall B.
The overarching symbolism of Logan’s death is spot-on, but “Connor’s Wedding,” written by creator Jesse Armstrong, also excels in detailing how each of the show’s true main characters receive and react to the news. It’s Roman who gets the mid-flight call from Tom after Logan collapses in the bathroom of his private jet, as flight attendants are performing chest compressions.
At least they eventually thought to get her on the phone to bid farewell to their probably-already-unconscious dad. Minutes away from wedding a woman who’s been openly questioning her own choice to hold her nose and marry him for his money, Connor doesn’t even get that courtesy.
More than anything, though, what I admire about “Connor’s Wedding” is the way it brings all of the Roys and their closest associates together in their fundamental confusion about how to feel and how to act in the aftermath of Logan’s death. For a while, on the plane as well as on Connor’s nuptial boat, there’s also confusion over whether Logan is definitively dead.
Are they monsters trying to behave like humans or humans trying to convince themselves they’re tough enough to be monsters? I think they’re both at once. You can see it in the scene where Roman and Gerri are alone together, after he’s fired her and his father has died . “I’m pretty sad,” he tells her, obviously angling for sympathy. “Yeah, well, the room’s all yours,” she stiffly replies, and makes her exit.
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