Will We Remember <em>Succession </em>or <em>Ted Lasso </em>More?
This article contains spoilers through the series finales of Succession and Ted Lasso.
ended on Sunday with a series finale whose title, like the three season finales before it, was taken from a John Berryman poem, “.” Before the episode aired, there was about whether the poem alluded to any particular revelation. Would Kendall, whose death felt like it had been foreshadowed so many times on the show—all those vacant gazes down at the city from up high and baptismal engulfments in water—die by suicide, as Berryman did? He wouldn’t, it turned out. Although Jeremy Strong apparently , while in character, a version of the last scene in which Kendall tries to hurl himself into the Hudson and is thwarted by his bodyguard, in the aired version, Kendall survives, albeit as a broken version of himself. You can decide for yourself whether the poem alludes to Kendall’s guilt over the covered-up death of a waiter (in
