Succession Season 4 Episode 6 Recap: Residing+
They hopped off a airplane close to LAX with a dream and their lifeless dad’s cardigan: Succession has introduced the motion again to the West Coast this week, the place this season’s adventures first started. Kendall, Roman, and Shiv are gearing up for a presentation to traders, which incorporates the introduction of one of many last tasks their late father had a hand in, a retirement group often known as Residing+ that feels pulled out of an episode of Black Mirror.
Talking of Logan, the episode opens with the closest we might in all probability get to a jump-scare in Succession; what easy fools we had been to cheer and tweet gleefully that we’d by no means see that man’s face once more. Archival footage of Logan discussing Residing+ in opposition to a inexperienced display is such a jarring opening, and it’s not lengthy earlier than Previous Logan is tearing into his “fool children.” Identical to previous instances!
Whereas Kendall and Roman find yourself energized a couple of potential “tech angle” for Residing+, primarily insinuating that the group might sometime assure nothing in need of everlasting life, Lukas Matsson is lower than thrilled. Regardless of how shiny and IP-friendly they could be, retirement communities are previous; they’re boring. They’re not scalable. He doesn’t prefer it, and is bound to inform Shiv as a lot, crossing from his personal jet to hers on the tarmac barefoot like absolutely the deranged particular person he’s. The “lady on the within” and “boy on the surface” are as anxiety-inducing as they’re scrumptious for viewers; perhaps Alexander Skarsgård really can have chemistry with anybody, however seeing him verbally spar with Sarah Snook is a delight.
Elsewhere, Shiv and Tom, two tremendous regular individuals who definitely have useful, wholesome communication strategies, are having fun with themselves maybe greater than ever. The fact is that psychosexual video games are their love language, and this chapter is, oddly, the closest factor to Tom and Shiv’s model of affection we’ve seen on display: They appear extra into one another than they did main as much as their very own marriage ceremony.
Dancing round one another in a perverse sport of cat and mouse is their honeymoon stage; please, please hold forth in case you or anybody you realize are acquainted with somebody who has ever challenged their accomplice to a sport of “bitey.” (There hasn’t ever actually been a boring season of Succession, however these writers have been firing on all cylinders currently.)
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