Was the arc of this show just going to be Kendall taking the fall for other people’s sins, bearing his father’s punishment with meek and mild, “Uh-huh”s? Graeme Hunter/HBOĮmily: When it looked as if this episode would end like “DC” hinted it might - with Logan making Kendall his “blood sacrifice” - I was satisfied for having predicted the proper “skull” but also disappointed in the sense that it felt so much like Succession’s season one finale, wherein Kendall saw his open rebellion quelled via unfortunate circumstances. Winner: Kendall?!?! Kendall is around for a very important announcement. And was the biggest winner of them all the word “but”? Well, we’ll answer that too.
So for the last time in 2019, I’m joined by The Goods by Vox editor Meredith Haggerty to talk winners, losers, and the future of Waystar Royco. And the buildup to those tremendous final moments, with Kendall finally, finally flipping on his father on live television, was bruising and boozy, with the characters sailing through a too-hot yacht trip from hell.īut you know that no Succession season finale would be complete without winners who’ve just taken one step closer to the spoils of the Roy empire (and/or earning Logan’s love) and losers who will have to spend the long wait between seasons licking their wounds. It ended in a place the series has always been heading toward - Logan and Kendall finally at war - but got there via a side door. Kendall? Tom? Roman? Shiv? Gerri?! (God, not Gerri!) And then “ This Is Not for Tears” aired, and it was so much more than the endless questioning leading up to it. Going into the season finale in which all the show’s fans could talk about online was who Logan’s “blood sacrifice” could possibly be. Its ratings are nowhere near as big as Game of Thrones’ ratings (though its audience has grown from season one to season two), but the fans it does have seem obsessed with it almost to distraction - exactly what you need when building a massive TV sensation. The HBO series has made good on the prediction that I, Vox critic at large Emily VanDerWerff, made back when Game of Thrones’ final season had just ended: that Succession would become the next TV show everybody was preoccupied with. In its second season, Succession, America’s favorite show about the haunting legacy of physical and psychological abuse and/or rich white folks trying to win a kiss from daddy - has seemingly gone from a show that a bunch of TV critics couldn’t shut up about to a show that seemingly everybody* can’t shut up about.
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