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Succession S01E07 — Austerlitz

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Logan stages a family therapy weekend at Connor's New Mexico ranch, positioning it as reconciliation after the coup fallout but actually using it as PR damage control for Waystar's political expansion needs. While the family gathers for performative healing sessions, Kendall is excluded entirely as planted media stories suggest he's relapsed on drugs. The therapeutic facade crumbles when even the hired therapist refuses to validate Logan's participation, and the siblings unite in confronting their father about the smear campaign against Kendall.

This episode demonstrates how Logan's manipulation creates the exact outcomes he claims to prevent—his false relapse stories about Kendall become reality when they cost Kendall custody access, driving him to an actual drug binge that Roman must rescue him from. Meanwhile, Shiv secretly accepts a sen ... 

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