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Jun 5, 2023 · The much-anticipated series finale of HBO's Succession answered one big question — who would succeed media mogul patriarch Logan Roy — but we still have more: Did the show creator know the end at...
- Terry Gross
Sep 20, 2023 · The shape of the final season from then never really altered in its essentials: Logan to die early, a shock, as death so often comes in life; a blast from the captive bolt pistol, experienced as a ...
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Nov 17, 2023 · November 17, 2023 9:45am. Jesse Armstrong Photo by David Livingston/Getty Images. It’s been almost six months since the series finale of Succession, and Jesse Armstrong has been enjoying the ...
- Was Kendall Contemplating Death? Armstrong Says No
- Shiv and Tom’s Ending Is One of “Terrifying Equality”
- Dialogue Was Cut from Roman’s Final Scene
- Tom’s Ascension Was Born Out of “Historical and Business Parallels”
- Armstrong “Wrestled” with Show’S Presidential Election Cliffhangers
- What to Interpret from Logan’s Death and “Raw” Goodbyes from His Children
When speaking about the series finale, Strong acknowledged that Armstrong might have a different take on Kendall’s fate. Strong shared his take that after losing everything in his life and following his dejected exit from the Waystar Royco board room, “the eldest son” is contemplating his death in the final scene of the series. The entire series en...
Much has been dissected about the final scene between Shiv and Tom after Shiv’s big move to vote against Kendall and, with her swing board vote, help name her husband as the eventual successor. When they join each other in their car ride home together (after a rocky season for their marriage), Tom coldly offers her hand and she matches his energy b...
In another moment of final-shot ambiguity, Roman ends his story sitting at a bar, ordering a martini and varying his expression from happiness to dread. “There was something about the tragedy of him having gone absolutely nowhere and learning absolutely nothing in the last two years,” Mylod explained to THRof where the second-youngest Roy sibling e...
Armstrong begins the interview by saying that it felt like the “appropriate end” for a television drama that the siblings would not be named as their father’s successor in the end: “If you were thinking about this as a business situation rather than a piece of drama, they might have slipped through, one of them, for a little while, for probably an ...
There are many questions that Succession doesn’t outright answer by the time it fades to black. But one of the most tangible outliers that was never set up to be answered, due to the structure of the season playing out in consecutive days, was the fate of the presidential election and whether or not the show’s fascist candidate, Jeryd Mencken (Just...
In the most shocking moment of the final season, patriarch and media titan Logan Roy died in the third episode and off-camera, after suffering a health issue while aboard his private jet. The mesmerizing episode played out in stretches of uncut takes as the siblings learned of the situation and offered their goodbyes to their father over the phone....
- Jackie Strause
May 29, 2023 · Tom’s ascension may come as a surprise, but series creator Jesse Armstrong says it was always in the cards. “The idea of Tom being the eventual successor, that had been something I had thought ...
- Dave Nemetz
Nov 28, 2023 · Armstrong also admitted that he considered ending Succession without ever naming a successor. In a conversation with The New York Times, he said that concluding the series without naming a CEO...
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May 30, 2023 · After five years and 29 episodes, Jesse Armstrong’s superlative satire, Succession, has come to an end. ***Warning: this article contains major spoilers for the season four finale of Succession ***
