On ‘Succession’, weddings never go off without a hitch

Sonia Rao

The IDEAL wedding is a joyous, tender celebration of love. But nothing ever unfolds the ideal way on Succession, does it? On the hit HBO series, a satirical drama exploring the power dynamics of a fictional media empire, weddings have come to serve as a backdrop for familial backstabbing or great tragedy. Sometimes, they host a combination of the two. A recent episode shocked viewers with the death of Logan Roy (Brian Cox), the media mogul and cruel patriarch whose children – Connor (Alan Ruck), Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Roman (Kieran Culkin) and Siobhan, aka Shiv (Sarah Snook) – learn that Logan has collapsed in a plane while they’re on a yacht for Connor’s wedding. The latter three Roys find out first and sputter through their final words to Logan, delivered…

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Sunday Independent (Digital) - 1 Issue, 2023-04-23

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