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<em>Succession</em> Just Delivered Its Most Terrifying Episode Yet

The show brilliantly deconstructed tech’s unruly optimism.
Source: David Russell / HBO

This story contains spoilers through the sixth episode of Succession Season 4.

The human machine is designed for planned obsolescence. The hardware ages at predictable rates. The software degrades on cue. The system may have its reasons, but the experience, for the end user, is decidedly suboptimal. Fortunately, the children of Logan Roy have a solution. They found the killer app. It’s the one that will stave off death.

Tonight’s episode of finds the people in Logan’s orbit still reeling from —and preparing for the launch of Waystar Royco’s latest attempt to combat its own obsolescence. Living+, a Waystar-branded retirement community, will expand the company’s current portfolio of news and entertainment—“”—to include real estate. Viewers learn about Living+ from Logan: In the episode’s first scene, he looms from a wall-mounted television, snapping at staff like

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