Then Kendall tracks down Roman, but Caroline doesn’t let them talk over the phone. It’s hard to know if it’s a selfless act or wanting to juice their numbers at the board meeting, but Shiv decides to make the trip. Roman is there with her, and not in a good place. If anyone likes the sound of a CEO they can change and mold easily, it’s the blood mailing Matsson.īut one crucial question right now is, where is Roman ( Kieran Culkin)? Shiv gets a concerned call from her mother, Caroline (Harriet Walter), from a broken down vacation palace in the Caribbean. She calls him a “highly interchangeable modular part” which may seem like a dunk on Shiv’s part, but is actually another classic self-own. They bring up what to do with Tom after the merger and of course, Shiv throws him under the Swedish bus. They also believe they have Stewy on their side (and hilariously, everyone assumes they got Frank).
Meanwhile, Shiv ( Sarah Snook) is in Matsson’s war room counting their numbers. He vows to get Stewy and the gang on his side by the next day when the board meeting goes down. Ken’s immediately told they don’t have the board votes to block this from happening, but never tell Ken he’s out until he’s brutally lost. No Jay-Z playing this time, but he’s ready to “carpe the diem” and grab his father’s company from Lukas Matsson ( Alexander Skarsgård) who’s trying to finally close the deal for GoJo to take over Waystar. The episode starts with one of several full circle moments: Kendall ( Jeremy Strong) stressing in the back of a limo on his way to the Waystar offices. We could have guessed our boy Tom Wambsgans ( Matthew MacFadyen) would make Minnesota proud one day and take the Waystar corporate throne, but it’s harder to guess the path it took, and how empty the victory would ultimately be for him. “With Open Eyes,” written by Jesse Armstrong and directed by Mark Mylod (it had to be these two finishing off this opus), pulls it off with Shakespearean ease.
This was always how these un-serious people would end up: broken, defeated, cursed to the end of their days (or, in Roman’s case, sipping on a martini, alone in a swanky bar).Ī great series finale feels both surprising and inevitable. Any idea we ever had over the four seasons of Succession that the Roy children could pull this off on any successful level was hilariously misplaced.
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