But how sublime the third episode of the fourth season of succession! A perfect chapter to begin living the end of this series destined to last as an extension of the shakespeare of king learin this first quarter of the 21st century. The one that managed (manages) to show the despicable world of a family belonging to the richest 1% of humanity and that, in addition to contempt, makes each character show the personal disturbances in which he is involved and that makes him so human. Like any person, like any viewer, who is thus moved by these perfidious and kind contemporary anti-heroes.
(Anyone who hasn’t seen Succession’s E03S04, but is about to, should stop reading this column here because, of course, SPOILER ALERT).
I don’t know anyone who hasn’t been moved by chapter 3, titled Connor’s Wedding (Connor’s wedding) and I don’t know anyone who hasn’t fallen for the writer Jesse Armstrongfrom the director, Mike Mylod, of the entire cast who, each in their battle trenches, produced a vibrant episode. An emotional roller coaster started from the moment those who were on the wedding yacht learned, through a call from the plane carrying Logan Roy, that the patriarch was dying.
Nobody expected it. Neither the spectators nor the actors were surprised and began to plan how to bring this scenario to life, without anyone outside the production circle knowing about the scriptural progress of events. Perhaps we viewers have forgotten for a while that the first chapter of the series showed Logan Roy suffering an aneurysm and who raised the question of who would be the heir to the family-communication empire. we forgot that succession it is “succession” or inheritance and we attribute the virtue of the eternity of evil to Logan. That he died.
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It is impressive to know that – since Tom’s air call is answered by Roman, the youngest of the brothers, and then shared over the cell phone speaker with Kendall – a scene filmed in a single take, with three cameras and left to use begins. of improvisation to its protagonists. There are Roman, Kendall, then Shiv and finally Connor, for 32 minutes without cuts. Perhaps for that reason, perhaps, so much dramatic energy is concentrated. The three literally dedicate their words to someone who is dead or dying thousands of feet up. It is the crying of children in front of a father who, without scruples, hurt them whenever he could and in the most fatal way. It is the testimony of love, then, despite everything.
The mastery of the script does not allow the viewer to fully see Logan Roy lying on the plane while receiving resuscitation exercises from a flight attendant. Only a torso is dimly visible, briefly the trace of a head as Tom holds out the phone for Logan, what’s left of him or his corpse, to listen to the words of children to a dying father.
The shot follows the protagonists until they inform Connor of the situation and together they go up to the highest place on the yacht (the closest to their father’s heaven?) to grieve. And also the plans to continue, because after the inheritance, it comes to know what will happen to the family business emporium.
It is a sublime chapter, without loss. Perhaps one of the best series of this century, which began its empire a few years before with the sopranos, the work that mixed mafia, crime and psychotherapy in New Jersey. Its six seasons, which began broadcasting in 1999, introduced for the first time a production made through weekly episodes, according to the procedures used in the cinema. The series was successful, it was a great moment for television, which was beginning to reconfigure itself. That is, it was still being watched on television. Or at most they bought DVDs with the episodes of the season to watch them in a marathon.
Then the expansion of the devices allowed this way of seeing to coexist with the individual experience on computers, cell phones, and tablets. It is known that the youngest today do not watch television as they did in the last century. And it is said, rightly, that in Argentina in 2023 the issuance of Big Brother It allowed the centennials to know what that device located in a corner of the living room was for.
The series also allowed, in its dynamics that can lead them to expand for years and years, to tremendous bluffs. They will remember, perhaps, what happened with lost, the story of some survivors, or something like that, of a plane crash who were on an island and that island, itself, was the protagonist of the narrative. They will remember how JJ Abrahams he had fun putting on stage flashforwads to delight the beholder in wonder and mystery. There were many seasons and each one opened a new mystery that did not close. We arrive at the sixth season with an ending that disappointed everyone. Everyone, that is, everyone. Well, no one said it couldn’t happen.
Today The last of us, whose first season was terrific, is the narrative extension of a video game. Yes, things are evolving.
succession It has a more classic narrative in its cinematography, more Shakespearean in its drama, without this excluding these twists, like the death of Logan Roy, that change everything. Probably an ambitious producer would do a fifth season and have everything go haywire, but luckily it doesn’t seem like it’s going to happen.
It is that there are seven episodes left and the curtain will fall, the function will end. It’s four seasons, the death of Logan Roy occurs in chapter 3 of 10. True, with a peak as high as the one achieved in Connor’s wedding the question arises a decline before the curtain. You can wish not. this sunday in HBO Max from 22, the S04E04 of succession will tell us more. The dispute over the inheritance of Waystar Royco, the company, begins.
Let the battle begin then. That we also win the spectators.
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