![]() ![]() In its fourth and final season, though, the show has expanded its gaze to include new media and tech. Succession, focused as it is on the Roys’ Murdoch-esque media empire, has typically aimed its satire at the failures of old media: the bigoted news shows, the sensationalist tabloids, the movies that serve as perfunctory vehicles for drab IP. Read: Welcome to the creepiest corporate retreat ever Later, we’ll learn one of the new brand’s taglines: “Gated communities. He is being filmed, presumably just before his death, to add his endorsement to the project: “I’m convinced that the Living+ real-estate brand can bring the cruise-ship experience to dry land,” he says. Viewers learn about Living+ from Logan: In the episode’s first scene, he looms from a wall-mounted television, snapping at staff like a Lazarus with anger-management issues. Living+, a Waystar-branded retirement community, will expand the company’s current portfolio of news and entertainment-“ hate speech and roller coasters”-to include real estate. Tonight’s episode of Succession finds the people in Logan’s orbit still reeling from his passing-and preparing for the launch of Waystar Royco’s latest attempt to combat its own obsolescence. Fortunately, the children of Logan Roy have a solution. The system may have its reasons, but the experience, for the end user, is decidedly suboptimal. ![]() The human machine is designed for planned obsolescence. This story contains spoilers through the sixth episode of Succession Season 4. ![]()
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