As 'Succession' ends, a family is forced to face the horrifying truth about itself
Succession unveils its widely-anticipated finale on Sunday. It has been an entertaining cautionary tale about leaving the fate of our world to the fickle impulses of emotionally stunted plutocrats.
There's a simple reason why the final season of HBO's incisive black comedy Succession has been so affecting to me, and it's not about the razor-sharp acting, the almost-prescient storylines centered on politics and wealth, or even the shocking, early death of outsized patriarch Logan Roy.
It's because this season has been a searing journey, focused on a powerful, supremely dysfunctional family, forced to face the truth about itself.
And as unveils its widely-anticipated final episode Sunday – which will play out over a feature film-sized 90-minutes — I find myself much more interested in how deeply that honesty will cut in the show's final moments than in the question of which Roy sibling might end up running the Murdochian mega
