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Nov 28, 2023 · Months after his masterpiece finale, ‘Succession’ creator Jesse Armstrong ponders the real tragedy of his show’s ending.
- Matt Zoller Seitz
- Features Writer
- 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 25, 2023 · Succession star Brian Cox has said he thought his character Logan Roy was killed off "too early" in the latest series of the acclaimed HBO drama. The Dundee-born actor praised writer Jesse...
May 29, 2023 · Jeremy Strong and Jesse Armstrong on Kendall's fate after the Succession finale. The actor and writer reflected in a behind-the-scenes podcast about the character's “completely tragic ending”...
Nov 17, 2023 · 'Succession' boss Jesse Armstrong on Rupert Murdoch stepping down and what's next for him after ending the HBO TV show.
Nov 27, 2023 · The writers’ strike precluded Armstrong from engaging in much discussion about the end of “Succession” when the finale aired six months ago. (He spent the strike in London, recovering.) Yet ...
Succession creator Jesse Armstrong says he has sympathy for the "caged beasts" at the centre of his TV show, as its hotly-anticipated finale approaches. The brutal power struggle between the ...
