‘Succession’ Season 4, Episode 5: The Gang Goes to Norway

Spoilers for Succession forward.

Wherever you go, there you might be. 

And wherever the Roys go—whether or not it’s Hungary or Scotland, the English countryside or the Tuscan countryside—there they very a lot are. The vacation spot episodes have resulted in a number of the most memorable moments within the collection: Kendall performing an authentic rap for his dad. Kendall by chance killing a man. Kendall admitting to his siblings that he by chance killed a man. Boar on the floor! (And also you thought your offsites had been unhealthy.) 

I used to be anticipating their sojourn to Norway this season, partly due to one thing Nicholas Braun, aka Cousin Greg, instructed me after I interviewed him for GQ‘s March cover story on Jeremy Strong. “We went to a resort in Norway this season after we filmed there, and [Jeremy] employed a ship for us to journey down a river to get to this unbelievable previous Nordic resort that was refurbished not too long ago, however has been there for tons of of years,” Braun stated, sounding a bit like Greg in Kendall’s thrall. “Simply countless quantities of nice occasions have come from Jeremy’s Rolodex of stuff.” Life imitates artwork imitates life. 

Succession season 4, episode 5 opens with Kendall using to the Waystar RoyCo workplace in Manhattan and listening to Jay-Z to pump himself up—a callback to the primary time we see Kendall within the pilot, using to the workplace and listening to Beastie Boys to pump himself up. When he truly will get inside and everybody erupts in applause, you’ll be able to’t shake the sensation that he’s not a lot a CEO as he’s two kids stacked on prime of one another inside a Brioni go well with.

This sense doesn’t dissipate by the point the gang—which incorporates all three Roy kids, Gerri, Karolina, Hugo, Frank, Karl, and miscellaneous Waystar RoyCo staffers—will get to Norway. Lukas Matsson, the billionaire tech CEO of GoJo performed by Alexander Skarsgård, nonetheless very a lot needs to purchase Waystar RoyCo, which they don’t wish to promote to him for lower than $144 billion. He additionally needs ATN, which they don’t wish to hand over in any respect.  

However, earlier than the negotiations, the GoJo and Waystar RoyCo groups meet as much as see how effectively they mesh. Issues are, par for the course, awkward. They sauna. They do molly. They speak about Cousin Greg in some Scandinavian language, the one phrase of which I caught is “Hapsburg,” which might’t be good. 

Anyway, we’re all simply right here to speak in regards to the blood factor, proper? 

Shiv will get some one-on-one time with Matsson, who admits to her that stuff received sort of bizarre when he and his final girlfriend ended issues. 

“After we broke up, due to some issues that we stated, as form of a nasty pleasant joke about what I shouldn’t do, I despatched her a few of my blood,” he says. “Half a liter, frozen blood brick. Properly she received a bit weirded after I did that however I simply saved doing it repeatedly and once more after which it turned not a joke and never a joke once more. And now it’s apparently not a joke.” Additionally, that lady was the corporate comms director, Ebba.