Succession S4 Ep4: Succession!
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers are joined by graphic designer Michael Bierut to recap the fourth episode of the last season of HBO’s Succession. The family attends Logan’s wake where big moves are made. Someone gets a surprising phone call. And where did that piece of paper come from?
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| 0:00.0 | Guys, this is Succession. This is HBO. If you don't want to hear me talking about Logan Roy, talking about |
| 0:07.1 | then don't listen to this. There are bad language words in this show. |
| 0:17.1 | Hello and welcome to, I guess, what we have to call the Succession episode of Slate Money Succession. |
| 0:26.1 | It has been three and a half seasons, but we finally find out who takes over from Logan Roy. |
| 0:34.2 | I am Felix Salmon of Axios. I'm here with Emily Peck of Axios. |
| 0:40.3 | Hello. I'm here with Elizabeth Spires of the New York Times and other many places. |
| 0:45.6 | Hello. |
| 0:46.2 | And very excitingly, we are here with the one and only friend of the pod, Mr. Michael Beirut. |
| 0:52.8 | Welcome, Michael. |
| 0:54.5 | Hello, everybody. Hello.irut. Welcome, Michael. Hello, everybody. |
| 0:55.7 | Hello. |
| 0:56.9 | You have come on for various different types of episodes over the years, but introduce |
| 1:03.2 | yourself and tell us about your succession mania. |
| 1:07.8 | I am a partner in a firm called Pentagram where I do brand consulting and graphic design of all kinds. I have probably over the course of my career had, you know, 500 different people serving as clients to my work, and all of them are represented in every episode in one form or another. |
| 1:30.0 | Just like Tom keeps saying, I only seek to serve, and I've ended up serving all sorts of people. |
| 1:36.2 | So I watch it sort of with a ghoulish sort of fascination like we all do. |
| 1:40.8 | This is amazing. |
| 1:42.1 | Okay, you can help to distinguish between Hugo and Carolina. |
| 1:50.0 | This is a relationship which we have been, what's the word, speculating about on this show quite a bit. |
| 1:59.4 | But Emily, this is the episode that you loved, right? |
| 2:04.6 | And it's also the episode where we get a new proper actual CEO or co-CEOs of Waste Aroiko. |
| 2:14.1 | Yes, this episode, first of all, takes place the day after Logan dies, and they're all out looking to work the angles in Logan's house. |
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