Intro for April 10, 2023

Dear Gossips,   

So you thought Taylor Swift had all the Easter eggs, right? Especially since it’s Easter weekend? We’ll get to Taylor later but she didn’t actually drop the biggest Easter egg of the weekend. That distinction belongs to Jesse Armstrong and the Succession team… because holy f-cking sh-t, episode three of season four will go down as one of the all-time best, on a show that just keeps besting itself. 

But to go back to the Easter egg, did you see this?

Spoilers are coming if you need the alert – although I’m not really sure how you’ll avoid them since, well, what happened last night is everywhere. This is a show that has to be watched in real time. The LA Times actually published an --------.  This is, after all, a series called Succession; it’s in the title, everything they’ve been doing since the show started is to figure out what happens after. And now it’s finally happened, in the most full-circle way possible: coming back to how it started. When we first meet the Roys way back in season one, episode one, Logan has a stroke, which kicks off this conversation we’ve been having ever since – who will succeed him, or perhaps more accurately, who will be left standing when they all try, by any means necessary, to succeed him? 

And there’s even romance to go along with it! It’s the symmetry of Connor and Willa moving ahead with their wedding, with much less fanfare than originally planned, that takes us back to the moment in season one when Tom proposes to Shiv, remember? Logan’s had an aneurysm, it’s total chaos, and Tom thinks that’s would be the perfect moment to “do something to make all this better” and gets down on one knee in the hospital corridor, or what Shiv calls a “sterile environment” (LOL FOREVER). Meanwhile Kendall’s making big declarations. “The socioeconomic health of multiple continents is dependent on his well-being.” 

As Logan told Colin in that diner on his birthday, it's always about the markets. “What is a person? It has values and aims but it operates in a market: marriage market, job market, money market, market for ideas, etc, etc.” 

Cut to the brilliant lack of sentiment in his death – attended to by strangers, in a bathroom, we don’t even get to see the humanity of his collapse, his final moments. Because Logan, in foreshadowing his own demise, has become what he thinks a person is: an economic unit.

Yours in gossip, 

Lainey