But the old man ignores the advice, defaulting as always to a self-serving sentimentality, insisting that unlike some venerable businesses — the Ford Motor Company, for example — Waystar Royco still means something “because we are a family.” And yet at one point in the episode, in a rare moment of earnestness for Roman, he asks his siblings, “Is there a thing where we, like, talk to each other about stuff … normally?,” and they respond by mocking him. The sequence almost plays like a horror movie: Kendall is soaked through to the bone, and darts behind trees to hide from cars on the road, knowing that he can’t afford to be placed anywhere near the accident. "President of the United States." Nothing at all. But Stewy tells him otherwise, noting that most shareholders aren’t that concerned with the missions of the institutions in which they invest. Succession season 1 episode 10 review: Brilliant finale reminds us any atrocity can be hidden behind a crisp suit Christopher Hooton @christophhooton Monday 6 August 2018 20:20 You want it to be real, is the thing. As they drive, they joke about kidnapping; “You should kidnap me,” Kendall says, boasting about his fortune as the boy notes that he knows a house where he could keep him. “Even though the show starts out with some low-hanging fruit, I think the real kind of bedrock of it, the plate tectonics of the structure that [Armstrong] starts to create, that build to this sort of tragedy, is really — when I read the script, I was blown away, and quite daunted by what I had to go through in order to serve it,” he says.“It was really hard to shoot,” Strong says of the scene. Though he does his best to act as though nothing’s happened, dancing with his children as Whitney Houston plays, he can’t quite keep his facade from slipping.It doesn’t take long for the other shoe to drop. The car and the body have been found, along with Kendall’s room key. Kendall can’t get through the confrontation without stammering, and his siblings now hate him for putting their inheritances and social status in jeopardy, and on the day of his sister’s wedding, no less.The next 10 minutes focus on Kendall, and Kendall alone. Kendall begins to cry, trying to protest his innocence, but it’s of no use. When “Succession” debuted in the summer of 2018, one of the biggest knocks against the show was that while its primary plot-driver was ostensibly a competition, none of the competitors seemed especially worthy of winning. In shock, Kendall stumbles back towards the wedding festivities.If he's disappointed about his and Shiv's newfound marital understanding, Tom still gets the satisfaction of kicking Nate out of the party—and not without humiliating him first. You hereby warrant that you are 16 years of age or older or are visiting the Website under parental supervision.Kevin is Screen Rant’s TV Editor. But Armstrong has fleshed out the characters of Logan’s bickering children a lot more in Season 2, such that they’ve become, if not necessarily “lovable,” then at least more sympathetic, and even relatable. Or you know what it could be, what it should be? By the time he manages to swim to shore, the spot where the car sunk isn’t even distinguishable anymore, and the young man is dead.This near-Gothic tragedy is a far cry from most initial impressions of the series, which Strong is quick to acknowledge.
Ah, Roman. That forceful effect is certainly felt in the series finale, which is more than just a brutal reset, as the crash and its resulting fallout wipe out a season’s worth (arguably a lifetime’s worth) of Kendall’s attempts to get out from under Logan’s shadow. “He was able to reconstruct Kendall, in a way.