The finale of Succession airs on Monday but this is not a power battle between siblings for Waystar Royco. It's a fight for the missing love of a cruel parent. And that's the joy and horror of watching this remarkable show, writes Virginia Trioli.
of the political family drama Succession by the time we got to the finale of this fourth and final season, which airs on Monday, Australian time.
And while I won't dare suggest that Tolstoy could have been wrong, even viewers from vastly different dysfunctional families will have seen, probably through their trembling fingers, many moments of parental terror and filial betrayal so similar to their own. The writing is spare, quick and awfully funny. All the characters travel on story arcs that have transformed them from an inarticulate selfishness to a wounded and wounding savagery.
All the great traditions are there: the Shakespearean, the Greek the aristocratic, and the Murdochian: never forget that the story of Rupert Murdoch, no matter how much the showrunner, Jesse Armstrong, gently protests the idea, drives this narrative to its awful end.
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