The episode primarily follows the efforts of Logan's three youngest children Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Shiv (Sarah Snook) and Roman (Kieran Culkin) to stall GoJo's acquisition of Waystar to negotiate a price increase, while reuniting with their older half-brother Connor (Alan Ruck) at the rehearsal dinner for his wedding.
Logan, who gets to keep ATN per the terms of GoJo's acquisition of Waystar, visits the newsroom, where he delivers a bombastic speech about his plans to reinvent the network's brand and messaging.
The siblings return to the city to attend Connor and Willa's rehearsal dinner for their wedding, though they arrive late after Logan rescinds their access to the helicopter that was supposed to take them there.
Roman nonetheless surmises that Matsson will not renegotiate the price; both he and Connor chastise Kendall and Shiv for jeopardizing the children's payout in favor of spiting Logan.
Arian Moayed (Stewy) and Alexander Skarsgård (Lukas Matsson) were credited in the opening titles for the episode, the latter having been promoted to series regular in the fourth season.
Christopher Bonanos of Vulture interpreted the scene of Logan giving a speech to ATN on a podium made of copy paper boxes as a parody of a speech Rupert Murdoch gave to the staff of The Wall Street Journal in December 2007 after acquiring the paper, where Murdoch similarly stood on an improvised podium made of office boxes.
[3] The siblings' reunion with Connor at his rehearsal dinner was filmed at The Grill, a steakhouse formerly belonging to the Four Seasons Restaurant in New York's Seagram Building.
The website's critical consensus states, "Showing the softer underbelly of the prickly Roys, "Rehearsal" revisits Succession's miraculous knack for bringing genuine heart to monsters of privilege.
The site wrote, "Succession is a grandly constructed Shakespearean drama, and it works because Cox gives it the domineering, fascinating father figure it needs at its center".
The authors praised Cox for "summon[ing] a formidable energy as Logan let his family and employees know that this aging lion can still roar, while also revealing just the slightest hint of vulnerability.