The Artful Rearrangement of Succession

"I felt like in retrospect, this episode wound up being maybe more usefully viewed in conjunction with the first episode as one big episode," he said. The action pretty much picks up almost immediately in the second episode with the Roy kids back in upstate New York. "It's an inversion of what usually happens to Succession where there is an event, it's Conners rehearsal dinner, but that is only attended for about five seconds."