Harriet Walter returns as a rather more subdued Lady Caroline, struck with fear of macaroni and memorials.
It's certainly got people talking ahead of the finale. Meanwhile, off screen, the timing curiously lines up with a gloriously scathing New Yorker profile of Strong, in which creator Jesse Armstrong and Strong's his fellow actors are deliciously candid about their colleague's histrionic acting techniques. What could be more cruel than Kendall's death, tawdry and pointless with no resolution between him and his father? They had their showdown but it only made clear to Kendall that his whole crusade has been for nothing. The scene feels more to me like symbolism, Kendall adrift in a moment harking back to Logan's cruel taunt about a dead boy "sucking water." And he's basically the main character! The loss of Jeremy Strong's intense performance as the fulcrum of the show would surely deflate the planned season 4.Īnd yet it's also a cruel show. For me, Succession isn't the sort of show to deal in anything as melodramatic as a cliffhanger here. I admit that on first watch I rewound these final moments a couple of times, but that was to satisfy myself that surely he couldn't be dead. and also possibly dead dead? As the camera swims below him and his beer bottle gently bobs into the depths of the luxury pool, some viewers took this to mean Kendall may have drowned. Wealth is simply a weapon to be wielded, a bolster to an overweening sense of superiority that doesn't match their all too human insecurities.īy the end of the episode, Kendall's face down in a swimming pool, presumably dead drunk.
He and his fellow elite have all the luxury and privilege they could want, and it isn't what they need. Except he's increasingly haunted by the kid who died at Shiv's wedding, now the subject of renewed press scrutiny and on top of that an opportunity for Logan to twist the knife.Īmid the beautiful scenery, Kendall has never been so unhappy. Head shaved and clad in soft earth tones (but still wearing his medallion), a melancholy Kendall is the ghost at the feast. But he'd also rather poison his grandson than show his son even a scintilla of conciliation. Through his media operation, he poisons global discourse with this assertion that life is a fight, that other people will screw you and you have to screw them first. The problem is, Logan forces his toxic world view on the world. Still hewn from granite, he stews in an aggressively misanthropic view of the world and the people in it. But wealth and success haven't lightened or enlightened him. He had to claw himself out of harsh circumstances. Logan had a hard life, born into a working-class environment, sent away from his mother and abused by his uncle. That's Logan Roy's philosophy, beamed into every house in America.
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