The Watercooler: "The King is Dead! Long Live The King...s, and Queen."

Kendall is on the rise, Roman is on the wane, and Shiv is in a holding pattern.

Succession loves to pin an entire episode on one central event, and this week, it’s Investor Day, a dog-and-pony-show intended to inspire market confidence — but behind the scenes, everyone’s stock is moving in wildly different directions. It’s similar to the shareholder meeting we saw play out in Season 3, where the on-stage vamping covered frantic backstage negotiations to keep Hope Davis and her dad from taking control of the company, all while Logan’s raging UTI compromised his mental acuity. This time, Kendall spends an hour being the raging UTI, and then his on-stage vamping is the climax that the backstage gang can only watch.

dude kendall asked my boss to build a cabin on-stage in one day

can’t talk, greg is making me edit some bullshit old video of logan to make him lie about some stuff

this fool wants clouds, actual clouds, over this house we can’t actually finish

cousin greg called me “mr snippy snip.” i would punch him in the mouth but i would have to climb up on my desk to r…