'Succession' season 4, episode 6: 'Living+'
The gist of it
The easiest way to explain this eventful episode might be to start by talking about where all our characters end up, and then we'll explain how they all got there over the course of a trip to L.A.
As the episode ends, Kendall has successfully impressed a room full of investors with fraudulent projections of massive growth, intended to raise the stock price and make it impossible for Matsson to buy the company. For doing this, he is hailed as a hero. So, Kendall: doing great. Roman, having lost his nerve and left Kendall to do this maneuver by himself, realizes that since it worked, he's relegated himself to second position, and it's not going to help that he impulsively fired two powerful women who are smarter than he is on the same day. Roman: doing not great. Shiv is backchanneling with Matsson to keep the deal on track, but she's also rediscovered her marriage and reconnected with Tom on a far more equal footing than they ever managed before, and as he recognizes, she's keeping her options open. Shiv: a cipher.
Kendall is up
The Roys converge upon L.A., because it's "Investor Day" at Waystar Studios. Time to impress all your investors, time to demonstrate continuity after the death of your founder, time to show off your shiny new co-CEOs and show that they are not at all a
