This article accommodates spoilers for Episode 9 of the ultimate season of “Succession.”

We knew it was coming: the funeral service for Logan Roy. After a number of episodes of planning and maneuvering, the Roy kids lastly have the possibility to ceremonially mourn their father. Of course it wouldn’t be a Roy household gathering with out some wheeling and dealing, a shock eulogy from Logan’s estranged brother, public relations schemes and the chaotic backdrop of protests within the wake of a disputed election.

The funeral friends wore black, and the Roy kids caught to the costume code. Logan’s wives and mistresses dressed the a part of widows, every in their very own approach, creating an apt tableau of the ladies who knew one other aspect of the person who “made life happen.”

Jessica Testa: This week I discovered myself questioning: Does Roman Roy learn our type recaps? Because his quick statement upon seeing Marcia at Logan’s funeral — “Marcia’s looking chic” — is one thing one among us would undoubtedly say, if we didn’t already say it throughout her one (one!) actual look this season. Although we wouldn’t be so, uh, crude about it.

Vanessa Friedman: Interesting that she and Caroline, Logan’s first spouse, have been the one ones in hats.

Guy Trebay: What has been admirable in regards to the costume designer Michelle Matland’s work all through is the restraint.

JT: With all of the highly effective folks within the room — and the writing repeatedly tells us that the most highly effective folks within the world are in attendance — no one was very eager about peacocking. Maybe that’s the purpose. Real energy means by no means needing to peacock.

VF: And then there was Logan’s brother, completely off on his personal in a turtleneck and blazer.

Anna Grace Lee: A subtly plaid blazer, after all.

VF: It actually emphasised the way in which he stands other than what his brother hath wrought.

JT: I liked the reappearance of Caroline. Shiv’s mom instantly clocking her being pregnant when her brothers had been both ignoring or blind to it was good. And bringing the wives and mistresses collectively was weirdly variety for such an unkind character.

VF: She had fairly an emerald pin. It was like a “I got a big settlement” flag.

GT: One of the issues we are likely to overlook is how topic anatomy is to style. That has been introduced house many times on this collection, the place persons are anomalous in peak, from Roman’s 5-foot-6 to Greg’s geeky 6-foot-7 — versus the male actor median in Hollywood of 5-foot-10. Likewise, the state of synthetic preservation. Caroline’s weathered face was starkly in distinction with the poreless, unwrinkled Botox faces that are actually the norm.

VF: Marcia is likewise visibly “mature.”

GT: And the “mature” actresses will not be American-born.

Stella Bugbee: The costumes of the 4 girls who liked Logan labored greatest after they all sat subsequent to at least one one other.

GT: The quartet in a pew was unimaginable image-making. It rendered Logan extra alive than any phrases may.

VF: Kendall’s speech was fairly extraordinary. When he stated his father had “the will to be, and be seen,” that appeared to mirror the stress throughout the kids. They each do, and don’t, wish to be seen (or be seen in a selected approach), and that could be a driving power in how they costume.

JT: Kendall has by no means regarded so comfy, even in his grief, lastly out of Logan’s shadow.

VF: Kendall’s brushed grey herringbone tweed overcoat, with the collar standing up simply so on the cemetery, was an influence coat — a mantle to imagine.

GT: The coat appeared off to me, stiff and ill-fitting, too countrified (with the deep inverted again vent) for an influence coat.

JT: Was anybody else shocked by Logan’s Stalinesque mausoleum? The sibs appeared to be. It was extra proof they didn’t actually know him.

AGL: Lightheartedly discussing the worth of the mausoleum — a $5 million “good deal” — was so morbid, and so them.

GT: Was that Woodlawn Cemetery, does anybody know? The church was St. Ignatius Loyola, the place Jacqueline Onassis’ funeral was held.

VF: Also Oscar de la Renta’s memorial.

SB: This was Roman’s episode from his opening monologue, the place he appears within the mirror and strokes the beard that he’s clearly rising as a result of it appears like his father’s, to the tip, working in opposition to the unruly tide of protesters in his swimsuit.

GT: And dabbing on the moisturizer.

JT: You can’t think about how arduous I used to be attempting to zoom in on the model.

SB: Hard to think about Logan utilizing moisturizer or being punched within the face.

GT: Ms. Matland has been slowly shrinking Roman, it appears, by way of his garments. And the marginally too high-waist trousers made him appear but smaller, which amplified the harrowing pulpit reversion from warehouse rat to sobbing little one.

VF: What did you guys take into consideration how Matsson cleaned up?

AGL: There was one thing type of eerie about seeing Matsson in his swimsuit, disguised as a standard individual.

GT: Universal reality. At key moments, you’re going to should shave and placed on arduous pants.

Jessica Testa, Stella Bugbee, Vanessa Friedman, Guy Trebay and Anna Grace Lee contributed reporting.