Review: Despite how timidly and how often this show about movers and shakers has retreated from any truly irreversible change to its glitzy status quo, “Succession’s” final season has a vision it at least — and at last — has the guts to execute.
That’s not to say he’s having fun. The birthday boy can barely muster a scowl for the glad-handers wishing him many happy returns, while his assistant/mistress, Kerry , scrutinizes the guests for signs they might be corporate spies. He may have beaten his conspiring children, but the allies he has left — Tom , Cousin Greg , Connor — are hardly the man’s idea of a winning hand. He wants to roast and be roasted, and instead, he’s surrounded by sycophants and second-stringers.
While Logan sulks, Shiv , Kendall and Roman have joined up after being simultaneously clobbered by, well, everyone. They’re “working,” which here means pooh-poohing graphic design ideas other people have come up with for a new media entity they want to launch called “The Hundred.” Kendall describes it as “Substack meets MasterClass meets the Economist meets the New Yorker.
They fail, too, because Logan’s leadership tests were always trick questions. He appears to want his successor to savagely dominate just as he did — explosively, libidinally, competently, trusting his gut, taking no prisoners — while remaining subordinate to Logan himself. None of it was enough. No wonder Kendall ended up facedown in a pool at his mother’s wedding. By the end of last season, his suicidality was enough to provoke even his competitive, irony-poisoned siblings to stage an intervention.For Logan, none of these self-flagellating exercises mattered. He ended the contest rather than name a successor, and so his kids have risen up.
“Succession” excels at that kind of court intrigue. It has not, by contrast, been particularly good at establishing the stakes of anything besides the juicy inheritance question. The threats posed by everything from congressional hearings to board votes to corporate bear hugs escalate or disappear depending on plot requirements.
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