The Succession Finale is Perfectly Upsetting and Here's Why...

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  @FilmTheRightThing · 3 years ago (edited) · pinned

  Might start doing more essays in the future because they’re fun and sometimes things need to be said!<br><br>edit: Also I say the convo with Logan is in episode 2 of this season but it&apos;s actually the first episode of this season lol.

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• AY

  @ayydavis94 · 3 years ago

  I&apos;ve rewatched it twice and the most fascinating part of the finale IMO is the moment Kendall finally got to sit in his dad&apos;s chair and he instantly kicked his feet up on the desk. The vibe from the other two siblings changed immediately and I believe that&apos;s the exact moment you can pinpoint when Shiv changed her mind on how she was going to vote.

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• SH

  @ShaneMichealCupp · 3 years ago

  That smile that Roman manages at the end is hiding deep, deep sorrow. Kieran needs an Emmy and everything else for this season.

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• CY

  @cynthiasmith2459 · 3 years ago

  Reminds me of the quote “ some people are so poor all they have is money”

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• GE

  @geckobrah4201 · 3 years ago

  Tom admitted to Shiv that his goal was the money, the nice clothes, the nice living. &nbsp;It may be shallow but I think of all of them Tom ends up the most satisfied, while being Mattson’s “pain sponge”.

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• CA

  @CatchmeIfucan-fo2hf · 3 years ago

  Actually Tom’s success does show a kind of meritocracy. The Roy kids assume they will succeed by making clever plays, because they think that’s what Logan did. That’s their idealised free market meritocracy. But Tom assumes, more accurately, that he will succeed by making sacrifices - something the Roys are incapable of choosing to do because they’ve always had their cake and eaten it too. The Roy kids see their father’s ruthlessness but don’t understand what he sacrificed to live that way, but Tom does. In this sense he’s more like Logan than any of Logan’s kids.

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• FR

  @fredpittman1972 · 3 years ago

  I was shocked by the ending. &nbsp;I knew that Kendall wouldn’t get it in the end…. I really thought it would be Shiv — but that would have been too simple. &nbsp;The writers hit it out of the park — the most profound ending possible. &nbsp;This show deserves all of the awards.

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• SH

  @shinjinobrave · 1 year ago

  A small thing that is so so brilliant about this show:<br>There are three siblings. At any time in the entire show, if one of them had truly supported one other sibling, that&apos;s 2/3, that&apos;s an unbeatable team. But they couldn&apos;t, it&apos;s endless rock-paper-scissors.

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• MP

  @mpan6102 · 3 years ago (edited)

  She chose Tom out of spite, there was no calculation. &nbsp;Kendal put his feet up on the table and acted like an asshole, that was the end of him. She doesn&apos;t love Tom, but she can&apos;t live without him, during the entire fourth season they built a new dynamic, a dynamic where Tom hits back and Shiv returns for more pain, because the pain she experiences in that relationship seems to her to be the only real thing, &nbsp;a real emotion.

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• BR

  @BREAKocean · 2 years ago

  Shiv&apos;s distant behavior reminds me of a part of a poem by Daniel Beaty called Run Black Man run. &quot;The sins of the father will visit the son. When life gets tough, the abandoned run.&quot;

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• PR

  @prettynpetty8342 · 3 years ago

  Anyone who successfully jumped multiple socioeconomic classes to have a real seat at the table won the whole damn lot in my book.

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• LI

  @littlebigrat · 3 years ago

  It&apos;s almost like the only way Logan&apos;s children &quot;succeed&quot; him are in somehow managing to become even more amplified versions of his own traits/personality. The disloyalty, the pride, the arrogance, the cruelty.... His children chased after him and all became worse for it.

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