We Need to Talk About the Wild ‘Succession’ Earlobes ‘Like Barnacle Meat’ Line

A fun game to play on Monday mornings is trying to guess which moment from Sunday night’s episode of Succession is the one that’s going to get the most memes made out of it. It’s a rough race on any given week, but Sunday night’s episode provided a contest as brutal as, well, competing to be the interim CEO of Waystar Royco, following the death of Logan Roy.

If you were watching Season 4, Episode 5 of Succession, titled “Kill List,” along with me in my home, you would have been treated to a supplementary soundtrack to the night’s drama: a series of “ahs!” “eeks!” “oh my gods!” and the evergreen, “What are you doing, Shiv?!”

In the episode, the gang—the Roy siblings and the coterie of thirsty board members—was cruelly made to fly to Norway, while Logan still laid in a casket awaiting his funeral, in order to meet with Scandinavian GoJo CEO Lukas Matsson about purchasing the majority of Waystar. It’s an outrageous power move, forcing the team to cross the ocean while still grieving. The result was that everyone’s moods were a bit frantic and wacky, especially once talk of a “kill list”—the people who would be fired after the sale—started to go around.

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