Succession

Members of the Roy family prepare to celebrate the 80th birthday of Logan Roy, CEO of the family owned media conglomerate Waystar RoyCo. Logan’s second-oldest son Kendall believes he is the company heir following his father’s retirement, but Logan shocks his family at his birthday celebration by announcing that he will not be stepping down as CEO. He presents his children with papers giving his third wife, Marcia, two votes on the trust to decide his successor upon his death.Succession Season 1-3 Download

During the family’s traditional softball game, Logan fires his longtime COO Frank Vernon, and agrees to give a new position to his estranged great-nephew Greg Hirsch, who was fired from his job at one of Waystar’s parks. Kendall leaves the game to secure Waystar’s acquisition of the media startup Vaulter. On the helicopter ride back to New York City, Logan and his children Roman, Shiv, and Connor argue over the terms of the agreement, but Logan suddenly collapses from a hemorrhagic stroke and is rushed to the hospital. Kendall receives word of Logan’s stroke from Lawrence Yee, Vaulter’s CEO and Kendall’s rival, immediately after securing the acquisition deal, and rushes to the hospital.

The Roy children are in disagreement over who should take control of Waystar in the wake of Logan’s incapacitation: Roman and Connor want to sign the papers out of respect for their father’s wishes, whereas Kendall believes he should become CEO, and Shiv is opposed based on doubts about Marcia’s role in the company. Marcia sends Greg to retrieve Logan’s items from his apartment. Roman asks Greg to bring the trust change papers, but Shiv instructs the opposite; Greg ultimately decides not to bring the papers. Shiv’s boyfriend Tom Wambsgans proposes to her at the hospital, and she accepts. It is eventually agreed that Kendall become acting CEO of Waystar with Roman as COO. Waystar’s general counsel Gerri Kellman informs Kendall that Logan is $3 billion in debt due to his expansion into parks. Logan wakes up in his hospital bed.