Anyway, with that, it’s time to say goodnight. Both to Succession, and to you. Thanks for reading. My god, what a show.
This will take some processing – certainly more processing than a liveblog is capable of – but luckily this is likely to be one of the most widely analysed episodes of television in all of history. My gut reaction is that it was perfect, and that I want more. Just one more episode, set five years from now, just so I can see where they all are. Will Tom last? Will Mencken become president? But, mostly, are the siblings OK?
Succession has always been keen to remind us of what a horrible bunch the Roys are. The patriarch was furious and abusive, and the kids were grasping, out of touch and incompetent. In a purely cold and logical world, they absolutely should not have been given the keys to Waystar Royco.
But Succession is also a human drama, and those three humans – as terrible and as messy as they were – needed each other. Forget the company. They could survive the loss of the company. But those last 20 minutes sliced a permanent schism between them, and I worry about how Kendall, Roman and Shiv will fare without one another. So, yes, one more episode in 2028 please, just for my peace of mind.
