Succession finale review: Recap of final episode with spoilers

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Tom, however, does not hesitate, and Matsson calls him, with no apparent irony, “Logan mark two—only this time, he’s f***ing sexy.” Tom’s betrayal, and his appointment as a supposed sexy new Logan, might have remained a carefully guarded secret if it were not for the equally Machiavellian mindset of one Greg the Egg – when Tom and Matsson join their respective assistants at the bar for shots, the Swede and his right-hand man begin discussing the CEO position quietly in their native language, and Greg has the wherewithal to whip his iPhone out and begin automatically translating. “It’s haunted and cursed and nothing will ever go right, but enjoy your bauble.” The loser list After a scene of Shiv, Roman and Kendall playing with food in their mothers’ kitchen that is so full of actual, normal-seeming sibling rambunctiousness and stupidity that it’s immediately obvious that the Roy ceasefire won’t last – long-term viewers of Succession know we aren’t allowed nice things for very long before the next double-cross, covert phone call or incest gag comes around – we move to the morning of the day of the board meeting, with all four Roy children gathered at the former family home. The argument the three have when Shiv exits while the vote is six to six, uncertain where she’ll land, finally boils down their previous arguments into a pure, diluted form, each of them speaking about their suitedness for the job as if it is the fourteenth century: Kendall wails that he’s the eldest boy, Roman points out that Shiv’s pregnancy makes her the genetic continuation of the Roy line, then calls Kendall’s children “a buy-in” and “half Rava and half some filing cabinet guy” respectively, and Kendall grabs his face as if he might tear out his eyes. “Once you’ve said and done the worst things, you’re kind of free,” Shiv tells Tom at one point in this week’s episode.