Tailgate Party (Succession)

"Tailgate Party" is the seventh episode of the fourth season of the American satirical comedy-drama television series Succession, and the 36th episode overall. It was written by Will Tracy and directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, and originally aired on HBO on May 7, 2023.

Succession centers on the Roy family, the owners of global media and entertainment conglomerate Waystar RoyCo, and their fight for control of the company amidst uncertainty about the health of the family's patriarch Logan (Brian Cox), who has passed away by this point of the series. The episode is set during a party thrown by Shiv (Sarah Snook) and Tom (Matthew Macfadyen) at their apartment for major business and political figures the night before the United States presidential election, and sees the continuation of the past few episodes' storyline, in which Kendall (Jeremy Strong) and Roman (Kieran Culkin) attempt to sabotage the GoJo deal they have been negotiating with Lukas Matsson (Alexander Skarsgård).

The episode received critical acclaim, with praise for the script and performances of Snook and Macfadyen, who respectively won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for the episode.