This article contains spoilers for Succession’s ending.
After the four seasons the end of succession Defined once and for all the great questions since its inception: Who will inherit Logan Roy’s media empire and what will happen to his children after his death?
Still others left behind to end loose ends succession Now they have been answered by the producer of the series, Jesse Armstrong, who made an in-depth study of the Roy family fortune and especially, Shiva’s decision
a bad play?
During an interview with NPR, producer and showrunner, Jesse Armstrong, and manufacturer Frank Rich explained Why None of the Roy brothers could take ownership of Viastar Royco, ensuring that the disastrous ending was the only way to end the series.
“If you think of the end of the succession as a business ploy rather than as drama, perhaps someone could have succeeded his father on an interim basis for the time being” Armstrong explained, but adding that for dramatic effect, It was not the best decision.
Thus, The role of Shiva (Sarah Snook) was crucial to the outcome. successionbecause it was their vote that was positioned Lucas Mattson (Alexander Skarsgård) as the owner of the group, and Shiva’s husband, Tom Wambsgans as Matthew McFaddenas new Company CEO.
Shiva ends his story “The CEO’s Wife” Vestar is truly without the power within Royko and finds herself facing a The patriarchal wall that he first wanted to break.
Armstrong explained that although many people have their own view of it, for him Shiva is the end “It became a moment of true equity. A terrible objectivity, never before seen in her relationship with Tom.” With whom he is now trying to re-establish trust and surrender in a troubled relationship for the good of his family.
“Tom was always obedient, and now he has status, but that status is dependent. Tom can lose his position with a simple snap.
Like the rest of the boys, Shiva’s status is confirmed. Secure in a financial sense, he has billions of dollars, an economic stability that will never diminish no matter what happens in the world. And he also has a last name that will haunt him forever.
Jesse Armstrong, NRP.
the listener said finds “eerie similarity” in thisand in his opinion, Shiva’s final move leaves him “still on the game board”, for him, in the future “Perhaps she will have to do something to replace her husband”,
Wasn’t that the ideal end for Shiva?
Jesse Armstrong insisted that the conclusion succession leaves Shiva at a bitter sweet point: where he has not lost everything, but he has gained nothing, so it is in position painful ambiguity.
On the other hand, the producer Frank Rich defined such ambiguity as “emotional shock”. where shiva This is done through “very dramatic collisions and commercial events and changes in a very compressed time”.
“But for that, I think options are still on the table.” He expressed, through the events in the conclusion that he is a character Far more complicated than at the beginning of the series.
“She has a legacy in terms of who she is as a person. But on less obvious matters, it’s impossible to think that she has a definite direction right now after everything that’s happened to Kendall and company, and what’s happened to her husband.”
Frank Rich.
“Shiva is still living in this moment, but she is defeated.The producer attributed this primarily to the work sarah snook at the end of the succession. “She put him on the line as a painful character, not in the clinical sense, but in the emotional limbo.”
“To me, this ambiguity at the end of Succession is wonderful,” End.
