That’s enough finales now, thanks. Not one but four well-loved TV shows dropped their last ever episodes in the past week. Last Friday, The Marvelous Mrs Maisel took her farewell bow on Amazon. On Monday, it was an HBO double-whammy of Succession and Barry. Today the final whistle blows on Apple’s breakout hit Ted Lasso. Although Jason Sudeikis’s folksy football coach has by this point morphed into a cross between Ned Flanders and a “live laugh love” fridge magnet, so that one came as a ding-dong-diddly relief.
It’s Succession that everyone’s been talking about, and rightly so. Jesse Armstrong’s super-rich saga not only stuck the landing but its masterly 88-minute swansong, With Open Eyes, immediately entered the pantheon of great TV finales. Probably spitting F-bombs aboard a private jet as it did so.
