*Warning: This article contains spoilers for Succession season 4 episode 3*
The Succession crew employed a unique strategy to prevent the character Logan Roy’s passing from becoming public before the episode aired.
They chose to employ a secret name that was cleverly related to the plot.
Georgia Pritchett, co-executive producer of Succession, acknowledged that it was “a tough secret to keep” before detailing how they managed to do so.
‘So nobody found out. We used code on the whiteboards. Larry David meant Logan Dies. So episode 403 said Connor’s Wedding, Larry David. Mind you, that would also have been a great episode,’ she wrote on Twitter.
‘We decided it in the #Succession writers’ room in Jan 22,’ she added on Twitter.
Only the third episode of the fourth season saw the permanent exit of the media magnate, played by 76-year-old Brian Cox.
We have seven more episodes left, and we have no idea what will happen.
According to Succession director Mark Mylod who spoke to Entertainment Weekly, the episode’s writer Jesse Armstrong came up with the concept for the early demise.
‘Jesse had the idea quite a long time ago, I think possibly way back when we were planning season 3. There was this idea that it would happen early in the season, in a very unexpected way,’ he recalled.
Mark said that viewers would notice “little hints” of the impending narrative twist if they went back and watched earlier episodes.
‘I think when the show is at its best, things are so shocking and so surprising, and yet when you step back there’s a part of them that also seems inevitable also,’ he said.
Succession continues on Monday on Sky Atlantic and NowTV in the UK and on Sunday on HBO in the US.
Source My Celebrity Life.