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    'Succession' has ended — and the point was never who was going to win

    The best finales feel both surprising, like you wouldn't have thought of them, and like they were always destined to happen — and Succession's final episode passes the test.
    by Linda Holmes May 29, 2023 6 minutes
    Shiv (Sarah Snook) has made her choices — and she will live with them.

    The gist of it

    Matsson's alliance with Shiv fell apart, thanks to Greg sniffing around a meeting where Matsson revealed his actual choice for the new U.S. CEO: Tom. Kendall managed to get the siblings united in a plan to kill the GoJo deal and anoint him CEO, but when it came right down to it, Shiv chose not to go along. GoJo bought Waystar, Tom became CEO, and Kendall wandered aimlessly through New York while Roman had a drink.

    Shiv

    Always bet on the woman named after a knife.

    At the beginning of this episode, we seemed to be headed for a showdown between Kendall and Shiv, with her trying to push the GoJo deal through (and become the new boss) and him trying to stop it (and become the new boss). But while Kendall and Shiv both went to their mother's place in the Caribbean in search of an absent Roman, Matsson decided to court Tom for the top job instead — arguing, among other things, that because he wanted to have sex with Shiv, he certainly couldn't hire her. As Shiv and Kendall argued and Roman tried to stay out of it, Greg, who managed

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