8/13/2023 0 Comments Collected company eternal witness![]() The Weeknd Taps Madonna, Playboi Carti for New Single 'Popular'Īnd for a while, they do! Roman and Shiv bust out note-perfect impressions of Kendall - which Kieran Culkin and Sarah Snook must have had plenty of experience doing off-camera over the years - before yielding to his desire to be crowned king. And it’s enough of a reminder of the impossible circumstances in which the three of them grew up - abandoned by a mother who never wanted them, raised by a man who saw them as disappointments at best, playthings at worst - that it’s possible for a moment or 12 to forget about all their abundant past sins and hope that they can finally just get along. It is an incredibly vulnerable moment in the midst of a stretch where he is otherwise unapologetic in his insistence that he is the only choice to run the company if they win the vote. “He shouldn’t have done it,” he acknowledges. But even as he’s saying it, he recognizes what a horrible thing that was for any parent to say to a child at that age. Kendall, who is more desperate than any of them to take over for their father, at first tells this story as a way of establishing the job as his birthright. Kendall’s story trumps his little brother’s - emotionally, if not contractually - because Logan told him the exact same thing when Kendall was only seven years old, inside a Candy Kitchen in Bridgehampton. While the siblings are at Caroline’s Caribbean vacation home, trying to figure out which of them should be CEO if they can outmaneuver Lukas Matsson, Roman claims it should be him, because Logan told him so not long before he died. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter: Mencken is a symptom of the disease Logan unleashed on the world, rather than the disease itself.īut that last part does an awful lot of the heavy lifting, doesn’t it? However monstrously each of them has behaved over these four seasons, we know they have been damned to be this way by both nature and nurture. Perhaps Shiv’s comments about the “hiccup” with the Wisconsin results is just her way of taunting Willa, or perhaps Mencken will lose in the courts. (*) Because this season took place over a span of a couple of weeks, we do not get to find out the ultimate results of the election. ![]() And even that is mainly a setup for a joke not involving Connor at all, when we see Tom place one of those stickers on Cousin Greg’s forehead, choosing to keep him even after the rest of the family has been booted from the company. (*) Connor’s big farewell involves him trying to give away most of Logan’s remaining possessions, inviting everyone to make “two sticker perambulating circuits” to claim what they want, so Willa can then redecorate the apartment. For a very long time, it seems as if the denouement of Jesse Armstrong’s saga of the absolute worst of the One Percent might be heading for … a happy ending? But a lot of it is just the three main Roy siblings(*) getting on the same page one last time, telling jokes, making plans, even shedding tears together. Yes, there are insults aplenty, and the requisite amount of backstabbing. Up until then, “With Open Eyes” is an almost shockingly chill episode of this show. Votes happen, fortunes rise and fall, losers become winners, and vice versa.įor all intents and purposes, though, the only part that matters is a five-minute sequence toward the end. ![]() This post contains spoilers for the Succession series finale, “With Open Eyes.”Ī lot happens over the course of the 90-minute Succession series finale, “With Open Eyes.” Alliances are made, broken, and made again.
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