Succession
Sad Sack Wasp Trap
TV Flash files “Sad Sack Wasp Trap” as hour 4 of 39 in the TV Flash guide — Succession (2018–2023) on HBO, season 1, episode 4, aired 2018-06-24, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E04: listed hour 4 of 39 in the Succession guide, hour 4 of 10 in season 1. It aired 2018-06-24 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Lifeboats” (S01E03). Next is “I Went to Market” (S01E05).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
With the company's annual foundation gala fundraiser approaching, and his dad out of the picture, Kendall polishes up his speech while enlisting an on-air personality from the Waystar's ATV Networks to accompany him. Shiv tries to minimize damage from a sordid photo that threatens a client's political future. Tom inherits a "virus" from his predecessor in the parks and cruises division, and shares a disturbing file with Greg. Logan makes a mark on his return to the office. At the benefit, Connor shows why he's better off avoiding stressful situations.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Sad Sack Wasp Trap sit in the Succession guide?
S01E04 is listed hour 4 of 39 — hour 4 of 10 in season 1, season 1 episode 4.
When did Succession S01E04 air?
Sad Sack Wasp Trap aired 2018-06-24 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Is this a binge or a weekly show?
It was built as Sunday appointment on HBO, then became a binge object in the catalog. Either works; weekly preserves the dread. Dumping four seasons in a weekend is how you miss that the insults are structural, not garnish.
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Why this series still plays
Watch it as a four-season product that still moved like appointment TV in the dump era: insults as a business model, Sundays that refused to be snacks, and a closer that held the brand after the budget left. Finite on purpose. That is the flex.
Sunday, nine o'clock, not a quiet Friday. Succession never pretended it was a binge snack. HBO kept it linear on purpose while the rest of prestige TV learned to apologize for making you wait a week. That was not nostalgia cosplay. That was strategy. A show about people who own news networks understood that scarcity still sells, even when the app in your pocket is begging you to dump the whole season at once. Rex can toast the golden-age living room. This is what the living room looks like when the living room is…
Filed against
- Brian Cox as Logan Roy
Brian Cox thundered through Succession as Logan Roy, the media titan whose “fuck off” felt like family liturgy. A stage titan who made patriarchal cruelty magnetic, he anchored HBO’s billionaire knife fight as a weather system you could…
- Jeremy Strong as Kendall Roy
Jeremy Strong’s Kendall Roy is Succession as hunger in a baseball hat — the son the which-Roy-are-you industrial complex still dresses for Halloween. Jesse Armstrong’s billionaire knife fight made insults a love language; Kendall made…
- Sarah Snook as Shiv Roy
Sarah Snook’s Shiv Roy turned Succession into a succession fight with better posture — media-dynasty knife work, insult comedy as a business model, and four appointment Sundays that refused to become comfort food. On TV Flash she is the…
- Kieran Culkin as Roman Roy
Kieran Culkin’s Roman Roy is Succession’s insult-comedy live wire — Jesse Armstrong’s media-dynasty knife fight, appointment Sundays, a family that would rather win a room than love anyone in it. Four seasons, then a closer that held. On…
- Matthew Macfadyen as Tom Wambsgans
Matthew Macfadyen’s Tom Wambsgans is Succession’s midwestern climber in a borrowed coat — insult-comedy courtier inside Jesse Armstrong’s media-dynasty knife fight. HBO kept the Sundays scarce on purpose; Tom made hunger look like manners…
- Nicholas Braun as Greg Hirsch
Nicholas Braun’s Greg Hirsch is Succession’s cousin as accidental virus — too tall for the room, too hungry for the joke, Jesse Armstrong’s media dynasty in a body that looks like it wandered in from another show. Appointment Sundays…