Every Single 'Succession' Season 4 Easter Egg You Probably Missed

Justice for Mondale the dog

Succession has returned for its final run of bollockings, power grabs, fratricidal hatred and jabs at Karl 'butter my beanpole' Muller's particularly unctuous brand of uselessness, and after a year and a half away you'd be forgiven for being knocked backwards again by just how dense it all is.

In between the lacerating put-downs, there are enough ideas, nods, references and callbacks to keep most other shows going for a couple of seasons. We're keeping track of the best Easter eggs we've spotted in season four so far right here.

The question of whether Tom actually considers himself to be out of his marriage to Shiv is more complicated than it seems. Eagle-eyed viewers noticed that Tom wasn't wearing his wedding ring while he met Naomi Pierce or while chatting to Logan at his party, but had slipped it back on when he was kicking around the house alone. Does he miss Shiv so much that he can't sleep without it? Or given he knew she was going to be in New York that night, was he just hoping she'd turn up? There are no not-upsetting answers.

If there's one thing Jesse Armstrong writes well, it's poisonously dysfunctional male relationships. The Disgusting Brothers (copyright Gregory Hirsch) have had their heavily ironised fun together, but now one half of them feel a bit icky about the whole thing. The El Dude Brothers – Mark and Jez from Armstrong and Sam Bain's Peep Show – know the feeling. At least Greg has the decency not to pretend to blast an air horn at Tom, on top of apparently making Logan an accidental sex tape. Maybe next time they're in London the Disgusting Brothers could meet up with the El Dude Brothers for a narrowboat trip. Hey, is that a kingfisher?

There's a load of new info in the revamped title sequence to dive into, and a shot of the endlessly buffering Waystar streaming app was a neat little piss-take of (we're guessing) HBO's famously laggy and awkward HBO Max app. Sadly there was no hint that Roman's project The Biggest Turkey in the World had made the cut. Fans believe that the name StarGo suggests that Waystar Royco will be teaming up with Lukas Mattson's (Alexander Skarsgård) tech company GoJo.

There are new home video inserts too, and some viewers have suggested that the hitherto unseen child razzing it around is a foreshadowing of either Kerry steaming in to swipe the kids' inheritance from them, or another car crash in the offing. Metaphorical car crash or literal car crash? Who knows. It might just be a reminder of Kendall and the waiter, which might well come back around this season.

He lives! We last saw Mondale way, way back in season two, and now he's all grown up and completely baffled by this strange woman walking into his apartment in the middle of the night to pick up clothes. Mondale's still stuck in his dog pen, though, and still starved of attention. Poor guy. He's named, incidentally, after Jimmy Carter's vice president Walter Mondale of "Where's the beef?" fame.

For all that Nan, matriarch of the PGN media dynasty, protests that she's a down-home everywoman who likes her wine thin and vinegary, everything at her LA palace is extraordinarily choice. According to Reddit's u/toluxury, who says they work in high-end interior design, there's an enormous amount to be read into the set dressing at Pierce HQ. The wallpaper, for instance, looks a lot like one of de Gournay's handpainted patterns which would cost you about $100,000 for a small room's worth of papering. The side chairs are clad in extremely high-end Schumacher fabrics which don't look like they've been sat on very much. Along with the gardeners apparently "shredding $100 bills for fertiliser," it's a clear hint as to why Nan wants to sell up: they're still spending like billy-o despite the business being worth half what it was a couple of seasons ago, and need to cash in.

It wasn't explored explicitly in the episode, but Shiv's baby – "Substack meets Masterclass meets the Economist meets the New Yorker"; "a one-stop info shop for smart people" – shares a name with another upstart offshoot of a legacy brand. You may remember cricket, the venerable old institution which has regular crises of confidence in its future? Well, the last couple of summers have seen the launch of The Hundred, a slightly dementedly truncated version of the game aimed at renewing cricket's relevance. Half the Succession writing staff are Brits, and the rhyme between the Roy kids' venture and another half-baked, over-jazzed new launch is delicious.

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