This article contains spoilers for Episode 6 of the fourth and final season of HBO’s “Succession,” “Living+.”
This week’s episode of “Succession” featured a comically bleak premise that could have easily taken place in real life. Kendall Roy (Jeremy Strong), in his first major act as head of his family’s media company after the death of patriarch and founder Logan Roy (Brian Cox), presides over an excruciating presentation of Waystar Royco’s newest product: Living+.
Consistent with his penchant for megalomania and performance, Kendall, wearing a bomber jacket on stage, introduces the product using lofty theatrics to mask its dystopian qualities. The concept of Living+ is a Waystar-branded nursing home with a mind-numbing amount of content from the company’s entertainment divisions. Kendall also claims the product could extend an old person’s life by years or…
