Succession [HBO] *Spoilers*

Disagree. The name of the show is Succession. We find out how Logan Roy was succeeded and the show pretty much ended.

The brief shots of each sibling was very telling and said enough.

Roman seemed content. Shiv upset but doing what she had to do for survival. Kendall devastated , world caved in and contemplating life.

For me it ended perfectly.

They all sabotaged themselves. Kendal and Roman sabotaged Shiv by not going ahead with the plan to sell and then pushing her to the side, Kendall pushed Roman to the side then Shiv backstabbed Kendall. Only Conor seems happy but he has a new wife that doesn't even seem to be want to be in the same country with him. Actually all four of their personal lives look like disaster zones.

Exactly. After the argument between the 3 of them, Kendall has lost everything, Roman realises it's all bullsh*t and no longer cares, and Shiv decides to go back to Tom and essentially hand him the crown.

Shiv places her hand on Tom's in the car, but doesn't clasp it or interlock their fingers. They're with each other, but not fully together.

Roman was on the verge of a panic attack when Gerri had come in to sign her payoff documents to avoid the lawsuit. We last see him at a bar, ordering her favourite drink for himself, and he has a slight smile to himself. He's unburdened himself from the pressures of it all.

Kendall ends up walking alone in a park, being followed by a man who can easily be described as "his father's shadow", and sits staring out at the water. We've previously seen him floating face down in the water when he was at his lowest points, and floating face up in the water when he was on the rise. Now he's outside the water staring towards it. He'll never have the company, the thing his whole life was being aimed towards.

I really don't think there was any more to say about the characters. We know the family has broken down and will likely never be together again. We know none of them are happy, though Roman's ending is probably the more hopeful of the three.

Shiv mentions it to Kendall and Roman shortly after arriving at the mother's place that if Matsson won the vote (with Shiv thinking she was going to be CEO), Kendall and Roman could still do the '100' thing the three of them had been planning on doing, she'd sign over her rights or whatever. I think the Pierce deal would have been part of that. I don't think it was officially canned (the whole season takes place over a few weeks at most) so I don't think they ever fully pulled the plug on it, but it was likely put on hold until the GoJo deal was finalised.

Do you not think that Shiv changing her mind at the last minute after being backstabbed and now viciously hateful of Mattson was stupid?

Only Conors wife had a successful conclusion. Gets Logan's apartment and rid of Conor.

Fingers crossed. I'd gladly watch another 3 or 4 seasons of these characters or even some of them engage in more corporate skulduggery.

I think Shiv majorly regrets her decision almost immediately. She just couldn’t bear seeing Ken win, voting yes makes no sense. She was smiling and laughing seeing Ken’s face when he was freaking out…. then she votes yes and she is all sad face, she had no control of her emotions, she is now a subordinate to Tom and Matsson, is she now even below Greg ? She blew it !

Fairly run of the mill finale, no surprises in it which was a bit disappointing but it wasn't a great season anyway.

It was time to wrap it up.

I thought it was the best season of the lot. Tighter, more focused, much better pacing, superb writing and performances. Every episode seemed to bring a surprise of it's own and send the eventual outcome in a different direction again. The presidential election night was a sharp satire on Trump. Every character had their own arc and were given time to develop their own persona.

I wouldn't call it a red herring.

I don't think it matters why a cognitively impaired old man wrote it, what matters is that it sent Kendall completely off the deep end and into catastrophic failure by the end of the show.

The letter served its purpose.

Ending a show about who will succeed someone on who actually succeeded them is the logical place to end it.

The show gave us a definitive ending, Tom won. It is rare nowadays to get that. Ending it on Logans death and leaving us wondering would have been cheap. Giving us a flash forward on how the Roys deal with fallout from it could have been done but I am glad it wasn't as them no longer having the controlling stake in Waystar changes the entire dynamics of the show.

You may not like the ending. You may not like Shivs change of heart. The dramatics of it happening in the Boardroom were a bit OTT but the decisions made by every person suited their character. Nothing was out of place but some things were exaggerated in the finale. I certainly thought it was a pretty good ending to the show. The most logical person to win it, won it. It was by no means "crap".

The last season of Succession is some of the best TV I've watched.

I think Shiv changes her mind because with Tom as CEO she can keep a tenuous grasp on the succession through her and Tom's child. With Kendall as CEO that chance is gone forever. Roman says this in the boardroom brawl when he says Kendall's kids are not the real bloodline.