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How 'Succession,' a show about business, became a show about marriage

Never underestimate a corn-fed basic from Hockeytown. In the heartstopping series finale of "Succession" on Sunday night, striving Midwesterner Tom Wambsgans was named chief executive of Waystar Royco, completing his transformation from groveling buffoon to business titan. After years of personal and professional humiliation, and of nonstop scheming and marital backstabbing, the man who once ...
Jeremy Strong, left, Sarah Snook and Kieran Culkin portray Roy siblings Kendall, Shiv and Roman, respectively, in HBO’ s“ Succession.”.

Never underestimate a corn-fed basic from Hockeytown.

In the heartstopping series finale of "Succession" on Sunday night, striving Midwesterner Tom Wambsgans was named chief executive of Waystar Royco, completing his transformation from groveling buffoon to business titan.

After years of personal and professional humiliation, and of nonstop scheming and marital backstabbing, the man who once sucked up to Logan Roy by buying him a Patek Philippe watch became his official successor. Now that Waystar is owned by GoJo, Tom may be a powerful lord within someone else's empire — it's a title he earned through fawning submission rather than ruthless conquest — but a throne is still a throne.

And he has a consort by

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