The constant reversals and counter-reversals of “Succession” came to an end on Sunday night, delivering the final word on the future of Waystar Royco.
A couple of days before the series finale of HBO’s “Succession,” DraftKings, an online-betting platform, drew upfor the next C.E.O. of Waystar Royco, the Murdochian media conglomerate established by the late Logan Roy which his adult children have spent the past four seasons of the show fighting over.
The show was still compelling, and the dialogue was, as ever, a snappy, nihilistic delight . Sometimes, it was oddly poignant—“Dad played sudoku?” Roman asks, after finding one of the puzzles on his deceased father’s desk—and at other times it was almost too perceptive for television: “He couldn’t fit a whole woman in his head,” Shiv says, eulogizing Logan at his funeral.
“Succession” has always done big life events well: weddings, funerals, birthdays, company votes. The final episode—a blockbuster hour and a half in length—proceeds toward a board meeting that will determine whether Waystar Royco will accept Matsson’s offer to purchase the company or whether it will remain in the family’s control. Early on, Shiv, whom Matsson has promised to make the company’s American C.E.O.
And yet, the Roys, too, are humans, with eyeballs and other body parts that sometimes fail them. There’s a striking physicality in the finale, evident in the dialogue—“He played you like a big fiddle, like a pregnant cello,” Roman says to Shiv, of Matsson, who has a tendency to reduce the aspiring C.E.O. to her womb and her sex organs—and in the characters’ actions, which grow in ferocity as the episode goes on.
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