He answers his own question, “I don’t think so.” Logan has built a world so broken that he cannot believe in anything beyond it.

“You think there’s anything after all this?” he asks. In the fourth season premiere, a few episodes before he dies fishing his phone out of a private jet toilet, Logan acknowledges the nihilism in conversation with his bodyguard - and maybe his only friend - Colin (Scott Nicholson). “Eat, eat, eat those dangerous fucking minutes.” This advice leads to Greg Hirsch (Nicholas Braun) spouting nonsense like, “If it is to be said, so it be. “Every minute you’re speaking, you’re stealing from them and their horseshit,” Hugo advises him. When Tom Wambsgan (Matthew Macfadyen) is called to testify in front of Congress in the second season, Hugo Baker (Fisher Stevens) urges him to speak as much as possible without saying anything. As Kendall Roy (Jeremy Strong) puts it in the show’s second episode, “Words are just, what? Nothing. In the world of Succession, words are not a method of communication, but a tool of obfuscation. The characters speak in a very distinctive way, often tripping over themselves and mixing metaphors, trying to sound smart while exposing their own ignorance. This is perhaps most obvious in the show’s approach to language. When that’s the case, everything means nothing. This article contains spoilers for the most recent episode of Succession season 4 on HBO in its discussion of meaningless.įor the characters on Succession, nothing means anything.

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