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Deep betrayals usually come with real and permanent consequences. This hasn’t been my own experience of the world. They trash one another, retreat to lick their wounds, and then pick back up again with a shrug. In life, some words and deeds are deal breakers - you can’t come back from them. It failed to give us a better understanding of how soulless corporate chieftains operate at this level and, like hospital shows and legal dramas, it gets many of the finer details about the business world wrong anyway.īut there are other things that don’t ring true. The series finale has only reaffirmed what I see as the show’s strengths as well as its profound nothingness. I’ve talked about these critiques in previous reviews. From a narrative standpoint, someone needed to open a window and let some air in. As a show, it was too in love with the navel gazing of its central characters, becoming the equivalent of a closed room filling with carbon dioxide and muddling the ability to think straight. There was no contrast - or anyone to meaningfully challenge to their worldview.Īnd that is “Succession’s” great fumble. That tunnel vision was by design and a nifty bit of deflection that provoked fan cams and weekly power rankings and questions of “ who will end up on top?” because showrunner Jesse Armstrong had little interest in telling stories about anyone outside this family’s insular circle. Can you not see their humanity? Can you not feel their anxieties? Who can keep a straight face watching these overindulged clowns slip on yet another banana peel? They make the same mistakes, over and over. They are incapable of keeping a secret long enough to surprise their adversary. The show’s driving force was the ongoing trauma doled out by a manipulative father and emotionally detached mother who left these three siblings forever scrambling for validation, only to have it yanked from their grasp just when they think it’s within reach. Logan Roy’s real legacy wasn’t the billion-dollar corporation he built, but the sons and a daughter he dumped into the world like a carton of battered, unwanted dolls missing tufts of hair. Their magnificent incompetence? Courtesy of Daddy, as well. Their excessive net worth was handed down to them by Daddy.

Sometimes the violence was literal, like a prestige Punch and Judy show - it certainly looked like Kendall was about to gouge his brother’s eyes in the finale’s eleventh-hour showdown - becoming a physical manifestation of the spiritual violence they were forever inflicting upon one another.

The show became an obsession for many, inviting audiences into an inner sanctum of lavish settings and private planes at their beck and call - and where viperous family dynamics reigned supreme. Pour one out for the Roy siblings, who take their leave of the TV landscape as unhappy and misguided as they were when “Succession” premiered on HBO in 2018.