Longtime Succession fans will spot a couple more familiar faces in season 4, episode 2 when Stewy Hosseini and Sandi Furness reappear to interfere with Logan's sale of the company to Lukas, sending the Roy siblings into a spin.
But if you haven’t got round to re-watching the seasons 1-3 back catalogue yet (and there’s only so much corporate scheming and inter-family mud slinging you can take in one sitting) let us remind you exactly where you’ve seen original corporate schemers Stewy, Sandi and Sandy (her father) in Succession before.
Who Is Stewy In Succession?
Stewy Hosseini, played by Arian Moayed first appears in season one, introduced as Kendall Roy’s ‘third oldest friend.’ It’s revealed that the pair went to school and then Harvard together, where they shared a mutual love of partying and drugs.
In season one, after Logan Roy had a heart attack and fell into a coma, Kendall sold Stewy, a private equity investor, a large portion of the Waystar Royco company stock to bail them out of the huge around of debt Logan had got them into. Stewy demanded a board seat and voting stock in return for keeping the debt out of the news. As the season progressed Kendall and Stewy plotted to lead a hostile takeover of Waystar Royco, ousting Logan, along with Sandy Furness, Stewy’s boss.
Stewy was then seen in the season finale as a guest at Shiv and Tom’s UK wedding, doing increasing amounts of cocaine with Kendall as they tried to finalise the paperwork for the takeover bid, which had been moved up a gear to coincide with Logan being out of the country. Later on, unbeknownst to Stewy, Kendall is involved in a car accident with one of the waiters at the wedding, who dies after their car crashes into a lake. Kendall escapes without attempting to rescue him, which his father uses as leverage to bring him back onside, leaving Stewy out in the cold.
Stewy then pops up fairly regularly in seasons two and three with working with Sandy Furness’s and then his daughter Sandi, played by Hope Davis, first attempting to push through the hostile takeover Kendall attempted to put into action, and at other points as a major shareholder in Waystar Royco. When Kendall attempts to walk away from the company at the end of season 2, Stewy visits and brings him to Sandi to listen to his pitch for why he should be running the company rather than Logan, but is also seen negotiating with the Roys throughout. Although he and Kendall still appear to be on speaking terms, he seems to hold a deep mistrust of his former friend, and along with the Furnesses, seems intent on bringing the Roys down whilst extracting as much benefit for himself as possible from Waystar Royco.
Who are Sandy Furness and Sandi Furness?
Sandy Furness is first seen in season one. Played by Larry Pine, Sandy is the CEO of a rival media conglomerate. He’s first seen visiting the Waystar Royco headquarters and wishing Logan, who has just had a heart attack, well. He’s later seen sitting on a bench outside talking to Stewy Hosseini.
Throughout season one, Sandy and Stewy work with Kendall on trying to push through a hostile takeover of the company, ousting Logan. This falls apart when Kendall is involved in a car accident at his sister’s wedding, fleeing the scene and leaving a waiter who was also in the car for dead.
By season 3, Sandy appears to have suffered some serious health issues - he’s wheelchair bound and unable to express himself to anyone other than his daughter Sandi Furness, who takes over negotiations for her father’s business, often alongside Stewy.
Most notably, she requests a clause that no Roy could ever be CEO of Waystar Royco again, as part of their deal to bail out the business. To Logan’s rage, Shiv agrees to the deal after they reach a settlement that both of them get a seat on the board in a future iteration on the business - suggesting she’s as frustrated as Shiv is at living under her father’s shadow.
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