Succession Explained — Episode by Episode

The Waystar Royco board vote on the GoJo sale comes down to Shiv Roy as the deciding ballot. Lukas Matsson has already cut Shiv out, quietly offering the American CEO role to Tom Wambsgans — her estranged husband — who accepts without telling her. A tip from Greg Hirsch briefly unites all three Roy siblings for the first time all season: they fly to Barbados, back Kendall as their candidate, and r...

Logan Roy's funeral takes place the morning after Mencken claims the presidency, with New York in protest and the city gridlocked. Roman volunteers to deliver the eulogy but collapses at the podium; Kendall improvises in his place, defending Logan's ambition as a civilizing force. Shiv speaks last. Ewan Roy, Logan's estranged brother, precedes them all with a speech that reveals Logan spent his li...

On election night, Tom Wambsgans runs ATN's first presidential call since Logan's death — sleep-deprived, chemically sustained, and sitting on the knowledge that Shiv has been secretly allied with Matsson all season. A Milwaukee voting center burns down, destroying ballots almost certain to favor Jimenez, and Roman pushes Tom to call Wisconsin for Mencken before the count is complete. When the one...

On election eve, the Roy family's annual tailgate falls to Tom and Shiv to host while they're mid-divorce. The brothers plan to use the gathering to build an antitrust case against GoJo by recruiting a senior Jimenez advisor — unaware that Shiv has already called Matsson and invited him to the same party. The night unravels across several fronts: Kendall's pitch to the Jimenez camp gets rejected a...

Investor Day arrives in Los Angeles just days after Logan's death, with Kendall and Roman scrambling to recover from their failed attempt to sabotage the GoJo acquisition in Norway. Kendall goes alone onstage with an inflated pitch built around doctored footage of Logan — audio edited to make the dead man appear to promise earnings he never committed to. The stock surges past Matsson's offer price...

At GoJo's Norway retreat, Matsson opens acquisition talks with a $187-per-share offer that includes a demand to fold ATN back into the deal — a network Logan had personally carved out. Kendall and Roman, still raw from their father's death, decide to kill the acquisition entirely and leak bad vibes to the press to make Matsson walk. Their plan collapses at the summit meeting when Roman breaks down...

The morning after Logan Roy's death, his family convenes at his New York penthouse for a wake that quickly becomes a power struggle. Marcia reasserts herself as legal widow, Kerry is turned away after revealing she and Logan had planned to marry, and Frank produces an undated note from Logan's safe naming Kendall as his intended successor — marred by a pencil mark no one can agree on. Kendall and...

Logan Roy dies mid-flight to Sweden, missing his eldest son Connor's wedding entirely. After tasking Roman with firing Gerri Kellman via phone from the tarmac, Logan collapses on the plane and never regains consciousness. The three younger siblings — Kendall, Shiv, and Roman — receive the news while aboard the wedding yacht, each saying goodbye over a phone held to an unconscious man. Connor marri...

In Season 4, Episode 2 of Succession, Logan Roy reveals he retained ATN in the GoJo sale and immediately begins treating it as a new empire, walking into the newsroom unannounced to announce a full reinvention. Meanwhile, Kendall, Shiv, and Roman arrive late to Connor's rehearsal dinner after Logan pulls their helicopter access, where Stewy and Sandi pitch a board veto of the GoJo acquisition. Ken...

Six months after being cut out of the GoJo acquisition, Kendall, Shiv, and Roman are in Los Angeles pitching investors on a new media startup called The Hundred when a tip from Tom reveals Logan is pursuing Pierce Global Media. The siblings abandon their pitch, fly to Nan Pierce's California estate, and outmaneuver Logan in a bidding war — using Tom himself to extract Logan's price ceiling and lan...

Succession’s final season turns Logan Roy’s death into a brutal test of what his children were really chasing. Kendall, Shiv, Roman, and Connor move through grief, the GoJo sale, ATN’s election-night power play, Matsson’s fraud problem, and the final board vote that ends Waystar Royco as a Roy inheritance. The recap clarifies the season’s major alliances, betrayals, and turning points, with specia...

Every episode of Succession Season 4 in one file with chapter markers — plus a season recap and cast & creators bonus. Jump between episodes using your podcast app's chapter navigation. — Part of the Explained Podcasts network. More shows: https://explainedpodcasts.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsaBH_ZOIZkyEOxziL4yyN-0LNjma-Kk3 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/u...

The morning after Kendall is pulled from the villa pool, his siblings stage an intervention he dismisses as an accident before pivoting to the larger crisis: Logan has slipped away to meet GoJo CEO Lukas Matsson, who proposes a full reversal — his company buys Waystar outright, Logan exits with a settlement. Logan declines but stays to negotiate, and Roman returns to the wedding with that informat...

The Roy family converges on Tuscany for Caroline Collingwood's wedding, where Logan and Kendall sit down to a private dinner that ends with Logan invoking the night a waiter drowned to strip Kendall of any remaining moral argument. Simultaneously, Roman flies to Lake Maggiore to meet Matsson and returns having pivoted the entire GoJo deal from acquisition to merger of equals — a concession Logan a...

Kendall Roy's extravagant 40th birthday party becomes the setting for a quiet corporate coup. While Kendall spirals searching for a handmade gift from his children buried under mountains of celebrity presents, Roman forces his way into a VIP meeting with GoJo CEO Lukas Matsson and cracks open the acquisition negotiation Logan himself couldn't start — by offering to kill Waystar's own streaming ser...

The Roys split between New York and Richmond, Virginia, where Logan has gathered conservative donors at the Future Freedom Summit to handpick a presidential candidate capable of neutralizing the DOJ investigation into Waystar. Roman brokers a private meeting with right-wing congressman Jeryd Mencken and brings Logan the business case for backing him — Mencken's audience maps onto ATN's, and his po...

At Waystar RoyCo's annual shareholder meeting, Logan Roy's deteriorating health — a UTI compounded by missed medication — removes him from the room entirely, leaving his children to manage a proxy fight deadlock without him. Shiv seizes the opening, negotiating directly with Sandi Furness to close a settlement management signs without Logan's approval; Roman fields a call from the White House that...

Four days before the shareholder meeting, Logan and Kendall are summoned to hedge-fund manager Josh Aaronson's private island for a joint audience — Josh holds four percent of Waystar and is weighing whether to join the hostile proxy bloc. The trip unravels when Logan collapses from heat exhaustion on the walk back and Kendall hesitates to help, giving Josh the signal he needed. Back in New York,...

Kendall and Waystar launch competing PR campaigns as the family war goes public. Kendall does back-to-back press interviews, crashes the Waystar town hall, and agrees to appear on the late-night show that has been mocking him — then pulls out fifteen minutes before airtime. Shiv publishes a personal attack letter naming Kendall's addiction and estrangement from his children after Roman and Connor...

The morning after Kendall's public accusations against Logan, the Roy siblings converge on Kendall's ex-wife Rava's New York apartment while Logan bunkers down in Sarajevo. Kendall pitches Roman, Shiv, and Connor on a coordinated move to topple their father, locking in a proxy-fight settlement with Stewy and the Furness camp — contingent on Logan's removal and his own ascent to CEO. In Sarajevo, L...

Kendall Roy's public betrayal of his father at the end of season two sends both sides into immediate war footing. Logan flies himself and a core team — including Tom — to Sarajevo to avoid U.S. jurisdiction, while Shiv, Roman, and Gerri are sent back to New York. Kendall, locked out of Waystar's offices, sets up a counter-operation from his ex-wife Rava's apartment, hiring crisis-PR strategist Ber...

Succession Season 3 turns Kendall Roy’s public revolt into a brutal test of power inside Waystar Royco, as Logan contains the DOJ threat, the siblings fail to hold a coalition, and the GoJo deal shifts toward a sale that cuts the Roy children out. Key pivots include Shiv’s shareholder-meeting win, Roman’s rise through Mencken and Matsson, Tom’s quiet betrayal, and Caroline’s removal of the childre...

Every episode of Succession Season 3 in one file with chapter markers — plus a season recap and cast & creators bonus. Jump between episodes using your podcast app's chapter navigation. — Part of the Explained Podcasts network. More shows: https://explainedpodcasts.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsaBH_ZOIZkz5XV01vuopXcgVGi5Ht4i8 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/u...

On a Mediterranean superyacht between Senate hearings and a shareholder meeting, Logan gathers the family for a weekend that's really a casting call: a major shareholder has told him Waystar needs a public scapegoat, and one of them has to take the fall. Connor trades his presidential run for a bailout, Naomi tells Kendall that Logan only loves him when he's broken, Roman returns from Turkey with...

The Roys fly to Washington after whistleblower James Weissel goes on national television detailing the cruise-line cover-up, naming the late operator "Mo" and implicating Gerri, Tom, and Kendall. The Senate fast-tracks hearings while Logan sends Roman, Karl, and a banker to Turkey to court Azerbaijani billionaire Eduard Asgarov for the capital to take Waystar private. The plan to scapegoat Bill Lo...