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SUCCESSION COULD HAVE BEEN a space opera, so infrequent were its characters on terra firma. As teased in its woozy title sequence, in which both absurdity and gravitas spill from the rotten blooms of Nicholas Brittel’s score, the characters in the Hobbesian HBO family drama mostly hover somewhere in the air: in helicopters, bleached penthouses, glassy upper-floor offices. Despite being American cultural despots, as owners of Fox doppelgänger Waystar Royco, the Roy family whips around in a cultureless vacuum, a reflection of their ideological vacuity and volatility. To tell the story of three
The show, presented in four seasons over the course of 2018 to 2023, depicts the power struggles and moral decay bound up with the fate of a corporate-financial dynasty that wields enormous influence over politics, culture and society.
Succession creator Jesse Armstrong unpacks the series finale of the HBO show, weighing in on the fates and final scenes for Kendall, Shiv and Roman Roy.