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'Succession' Season 4, Episode 4: 'Honeymoon States'

The fallout from last week's earth-shaking episode begins, as Logan Roy's friends and relations (and lackeys) gather at his home.
Tom (Matthew Macfadyen) finds himself in a jam as a long day of being "sick with grief" gets underway.

If you missed last week's episode, catch up here first. And needless to say, recaps are full of spoilers.

Life as a Roy, in a nutshell: The wedding was so sad, and the wake is so funny.

This episode tells a number of stories, in contrast to the singular focus of "Connor's Wedding." So let's do a quick summary, and then we'll work through the stories one at a time.

The day of Logan's wake is also the day the board picks a new interim head of Waystar. The sibs are still enjoying the bonds they developed the day before (the day of Logan's death), and they're really, really trying to stick together and be decent to each other. But it's complicated, because a showdown of sorts develops between the sibs and the "Old Guard" (Gerri, Frank and Karl). After Kendall calls on Stewy for support, the sibs gain the advantage. And once Kendall and Roman are able to convince Shiv to take a back seat for the moment, they are appointed as interim co-CEOs. Unfortunately, Kendall's first act as co-CEO is to betray Roman and blackmail Hugo, so that's ... not great. Elsewhere, Tom and Greg

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