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'Succession' Season 4, Episode 2: 'Rehearsal'

On the night before Connor's wedding, his siblings are restless, and Logan is relentless. Greg is in over his head, and Shiv's divorce is getting ugly.
Logan Roy (Brian Cox) still loves standing and surveying what remains of his empire — or will remain after, he hopes, a big sale.

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Where we stand

Last week's episode found Logan in the rare position of being outmaneuvered by his kids after Kendall, Shiv and Roman snatched Pierce away just when he was set to acquire it. (Who enjoyed Logan's loss more — his worst enemy, Nan, or his own children? Hard to say.) This week, he's ready to complete the sale of (most of) Waystar to Lukas Matsson. But now the kids might get in the way of that, too.

How divorce lawyers imperiled the GoJo deal

Shiv is at the sibs' HQ (for the purposes of this story, the sibs are Kendall, Roman and Shiv) complaining about the programming on PGN with her brothers. They seem not to have had any idea what they were buying when they bought it, which is very on brand. During this cable news roast, she gets an unhappy phone call. It turns out that her first choice for a divorce lawyer can't represent her. That lawyer met with Tom to potentially represent him and is thus "conflicted out" of representing her.

She brushes it

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