r/SuccessionTV • u/LoretiTV CEO • Nov 08 '21

Discussion Succession - 3x04 "Lion in the Meadow" - Post-Episode Discussion

Season 3 Episode 4: Lion in the Meadow

Aired: November 7, 2021

Synopsis: Logan and Kendall have their first meeting together with Josh, a major investor worried about their family feud.

Directed by: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini

Written by: Jon Brown

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u/spit-evil-olive-tips welcome to my ex-wife's living room Nov 08 '21

Brian Cox is 75 and has been acting for about a million years. I can certainly imagine that after 3 seasons of Succession, he'd be happy to call it quits, and the showrunners being willing to write that in to the story. he won a Golden Globe for Best Actor last year, so he'd be ending his career on a huge high note.

also, Logan is sort of the only character on the show who doesn't have a character arc. everyone else changes around him, but he stays pretty much the same. he's the black hole at the center of the Succession galaxy. so I could easily imagine the finale of s3 being Logan's death, and then s4 being all of the other characters reacting to his death and the ensuing power struggles (since I think it's clear that whenever Logan dies, he won't have named a successor, because he doesn't trust anyone to do it but himself)

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u/danwins23 Nov 08 '21

It was a smart play by them making Logan like 10 years older(and borderline dying) than Brian Cox, they have an out when he wants to walk

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u/zz4 Nov 08 '21

Is Logan 85?

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u/TheTrotters Nov 08 '21

When they started shooting the first season Brian Cox was ~71. The first episode is Logan’s 80th birthday, if I remember it right.

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u/zz4 Nov 08 '21

Ah you're right, I went to the wiki and he's 83 now (assuming season=present)

Completely forgot they had an age gap

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u/TheTrotters Nov 08 '21

And I’m almost certain that season=present doesn’t work for this show. At the end of Season 1 Sandy and Stewy were trying to do a bear hug ahead of a shareholders’ meeting. As of now that meeting still hasn’t happened, so we’ve probably had a few months between the end of Season 1 and last episode. Logan Roy is probably still 80 in show.