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If “Succession” is a competition that ends with a winner, we’d be foolish to count out Marcia

Never underestimate the shrewdness of third wife of a dying man who never takes her eye off the prize: his fortune

Published April 17, 2023 12:00PM (EDT)

The following contains spoilers for "Succession" Season 4, Episode 4 "Honeymoon States"

Everything in Logan Roy’s life is transactional. There are costs and rewards, dues and dividends, victors and the dead. This is why so much of the discourse related to the fourth season of “Succession” has to do with who is winning and who can win. Taking stock of Logan’s three kids at the start of “Honeymoon States,” set a day after his death, nobody seems to be winning.

Kendall (Jeremy Strong) is wrecked on the floor of his luxury condo. Kendall (Kieran Culkin)  stalks his place with cold purposeful emotional denial, brushing his teeth and not betraying a single emotion in the mirror. Shiv (Sarah Snook) is slumped in her bed and fields a call from her doctor, who drops the episode’s biggest surprise (that most people saw coming a season ago): she’s pregnant, and thanks to Dad’s manipulations, estranged from her husband Tom (Matthew Macfadyen).

Only one Roy is in a position to pull a win out of this grave situation: Marcia.

To the end Logan’s third wife, played by Hiam Abbass, remains something of a mystery. The Roy children wouldn’t describe her so politely. In the first season, they treat her as if she’s a gold digger. (To be fair, they’re no fans of Logan’s second wife and their mother, Lady........

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