The Real <em>Succession </em>Endgame
This story contains spoilers through the first episode of Succession Season 4.
Who is Logan Roy, really? What can we say definitively about him now, at the beginning of the fourth and final season of , that we couldn’t have easily observed at the show’s start? He’s irascible. He hates his children. He “loves” his children. (“Love’s not love,” as a character observes in , “when it is mingled with regards that stand / Aloof from th’ entire point.”) After all this time, Logan still feels less like a person, with the complicated, humanizing qualities that even terrible people tend to have, than a manifestation, an extraordinary account of the final years of the media mogul Sumner Redstone, James B. Stewart and Rachel Abrams that as Redstone’s speech began to fail, he programmed a laptop to say phrases on his behalf, including “Would you like some fruit salad?” and “Fuck you.” But with Logan, there is no fruit salad.
