‘Succession’ Season 4, Episode 8 Recap: ‘America Decides’

The HBO drama’s latest installment marked the first Election Day that ATN covered without its late founder Logan Roy at the helm

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Nicholas Braun and Matthew Macfadyen in a still from "Succession." (HBO)

It’s Election Day! Episode 8 of the final season of “Succession” finds the Roys and crew navigating the momentous occasion, the first that American Television Network will be covering without its late founder Logan Roy at the helm.

Though titled “America Decides,” the nail-biting hour is really about network boss Tom Wambsgans (Matthew Macfadyen) figuring out how to spin the night’s news for ATN’s rabid conservative audience base, all the while fighting interference from the business and partisan considerations of Roy’s children Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Roman (Kieran Culkin), Connor (Alan Ruck) and Siobhan (Sarah Snook), who also happens to be the wife Tom had an earth-scorching argument the night before.

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