Succession is about as far away from genre television as you can get. With ripped-from-the-headlines plots and clear parallels to Rupert Murdoch, the HBO series is a twisted mirror into the secret alliances and betrayals that shape life in America and around the world. But as Succession races towards its big finale, we’re starting to wonder how the show will end. And the most recent episode suggests the series could dip into a classic science fiction subgenre in its final chapters: the post-apocalypse.
