“Family Death March”: Succession Series Finale

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“I am the eldest boy.”

In five words, Jesse Armstrong and Jeremy Strong articulate the impulse behind Kendall Roy’s quest for power in a finale that brings all the themes of this extraordinary show full circle. Kendall Roy is not a visionary. He has no great ideas for what he’d do as CEO of Waystar. His plans to kick his father off the throne never work. He doesn’t have the business…