SPOILER ALERT: This story contains major spoilers for the fourth season of “Succession.”
The king is dead. Long live the king — or queen.
“Succession” fans were shocked, confused, excited, saddened and more when lead character Logan Roy, played by Brian Cox, was killed off in the show’s Easter Sunday episode in a stunningly anticlimactic way.
That Logan, head of a right-wing media conglomerate, was going to die this season, the acclaimed series’ last, was a no-brainer. The character had already cheated death in the first season and what else would you expect from a show called “Succession”? That it happened in the third of 10 episodes was the shocking part.
It was yet more evidence of the brilliance of series creator Jesse Armstrong and his writers.
Up until Sunday, it seemed safe to assume the season would feature more of what we had seen in the first two episodes:…
