Succession: Season 3 | Controlling The Narrative: The Island Showdown | HBO

In this companion series, the cast of Succession and creator Jesse Armstrong delve into a pivotal scene from each episode. This week, they discuss Kendall and Logan’s brief but tense reunion in Episode 4 where the Roy men attempt to calm a major investor at his private island.

Succession airs Sundays on HBO Max.

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[chelbellanyy]

i could not ask for anything more for a show. the complexity of their relationship is incredible. Jesse saying Kendall hates and loves Logan is absolutely everything.

[TheSeeWhatiSee]

I kinda felt like that little trail hike was a little foreshadowing of what would happen between Logan and Kendall.
He falls and kendall wins... But for some reason he can't shake the feeling seeing his own father fall. It's insanity.

[DianeCooperTW]

I feel like Josh was never on their side, and did that just to be sure of it

[achannelaboutnothing]

I hope the method acting hasnt left Jeremy broken, he’s speaking about Kendall as a first person’s pov

[pinkvalentino]

I feel like this walk was a set up. But this episode was a masterpiece & i can't wait for the next one!!!!

[bluecuracao]

Adrian Browdy is so good in this episode!

[asmita]

The music for this show is just EXTRAORDINARY... Matches the intensity and complexity of each of the scenes!!

[originaozz]

I really believe Logan this episode when he said he love and have respect for Kendall, like he just got the time to pause and realized that as he said it. Doesn't mean Logan will ever forgive Kendall, but it's still true. Their acting sold that moment for me.

[renatobauer]

This is what tv is all about. Masterpiece class act. Thanks HBO.

[WellBattle]

I find it funny that Roy’s actor always talks about Roy in first person while Logan’s actor always talks about Logan in third person.

[meenuakbarali]

Every episode is a masterpiece! Love the Greek and Shakespearean dramatic elements the show has to offer.
Succession is to HBO what Man was to AMC. Can't wait for the next episode ❤️

[jackiedungan]

Nicholas Britell is the true genius of this show

[jimpalmer]

One hears a lot about how the show is loosely based on the Murdochs, but considering that the showrunner is British, I’m wondering how much the Maxwells informed him. Ian and Kevin Maxwell could be analogs to Kendall and Roman, and Siobhan could turn out to be a Ghislaine.

[justatroll]

Oh boy. Planting and payoff. And awkward realistic silences in between

[moneytalks]

All that food and they didnt even touch it that really bothers me

[fadhilramadhani]

The thing about this show is that not one intention is blatantly discussed. The viewers could have their own meanings of each action. Josh can either be trying to get on with the Roys or the whole thing was just a set-up to feel Kendall and Logan out when in fact he had already been in cahoots with Stewy.

[eriksmith]

Writers room?? Hey let’s add some awkward pauses and terrible back and forth banter

[meenuakbarali]

Unfortunately, I'm seeing zero character development in Roman which is disappointing. Heck, even Connor is more noticeable than him.

[IamMichelle]

Just imagine this man isn't even speaking to his real children and his real children are being held hostage somewhere...

[maazkalim]

{PROVISIONAL: }I hereby take..

...My solemn oath..

...If nothing major happens by the middle of this episode( exactly half-a-season), then I would leave this stunt-cast & heavily studio-meddled of a season — and this series by extension, for good.
No, genuinely. This season has been such a drag & it appears the ongoing global-healthcare tragedy has gone through the heads of [again reshuffled ]writers' room. While like everything else which is non-theoretical across the cosmos, this show wasn't uniformly loved but almost-absolutely loved by everybody — specifically 'cus of how its level of ambiguity allowed everybody to make their own inaccurate to wildly-misinferred conclusions and keep going around asserting them as their "gospel" but.. There has been no doubt that the writing has taken a nosedive in favour of: In spite episode-length clearly conveying the logical dramedy-format, the season is: Literally prioritising sitcom over dramatic-developments — at Best.
As if that's not enough, they've apparently started going preachy even more than they were since the second-half of season 2( around the "PGM®" subplot) and now they( the writers) are turning into yet-another bunch of neoliberal clowns, to appease the loudest voices across the 'pop-Interweb' and "new" media "critics" in the Global North.
The above key-factors leading to the Flanderization of characters, even the one recognised as "greater than the[ middling] show they exist in" — means this show is coming across just-another hypocritical, big-budget "plug our non-family controlled Empire's IPs" of a neoliberal soapbox _i.e._ yes, evidently discernible sacrifice of ambiguity while casting thespians and hiring writers from across the Empire with problematic links — making it a perfect bowtie for a strereotypical "Hollywood production" than anything it used to be.