![]() Shiv’s exile was inevitable in a world built by Logan, a man who Shiv admits “could not fit a whole woman in his head.” But Shiv also makes the decision to, essentially, hand her husband the job of CEO at Waystar Royco after he has betrayed her-twice-and stay by his side afterwards. So, as Matsson puts it, “Why don’t I get the guy who put the baby inside her instead of the baby lady?” Charming. Given his history of shipping blood to his crushes, his libido could prove a problem. Plus, as he admits to Tom, he wants to sleep with her. Matsson sees Shiv’s pregnancy as a liability in her bid for CEO. ![]() Surely the audience is meant to wonder what he’ll do after the screen goes black, but it seems that even if Ken’s spirit is dead, his life goes on in one way or another. (Hey, whatever happened to the Pierce deal, anyway?) He may still be processing what just happened in the board room. Whether that’s because Colin, his father’s old body guard, is trailing him or because he does see some future for himself in which he runs another company, we don’t know. After the vote, a miserable and defeated Ken walks to the Hudson River. When Shiv states her intention to vote to sell Waystar Royco to GoJo, paving the way for Matsson’s victory against Kendall, Ken makes the comment about how he might die if he does not get the CEO job. Shiv and Roman decide against fratricide, but Ken encounters water one final time in the episode, in the very last scene of the series. (The camera leaves him out of frame for unsettlingly long while his Shiv jokes about murdering him, and Roman talks about the possibility of sharks in the water.) In this final episode, when Ken decides to take a midnight dip at his mother’s house, you would be forgiven for thinking that he might finally meet his watery grave. Notably, Ken celebrated his Living+ victory with a calming swim in the Pacific. The writers know this and have been playing with fan expectations about Ken and water all season. Here’s a breakdown of where everyone ended up-and some symbolic moments you may have missed. Ken loses Waystar Royco for good, and the Roy children are left filthy rich and utterly empty. Ken yells, “I’m the eldest boy” at some point, a last nasty poke at poor Connor (who is, of course, not even in the room to defend himself). Shiv eventually decides to vote against her brother (and, essentially, with the husband who betrayed her). By promising each of his children the kingdom at some point in their lives, Logan created craven heirs with insatiable desires who would rather destroy themselves than see one another win the throne. In a moment of childlike levity, they crown Ken king and force him to drink an abhorrent concoction of British condiments from their mother’s fridge.īut the peace does not last long. ![]() The Roy siblings briefly form a united front. Shiv finds out that GoJo CEO Matsson, none-too-happy with a published magazine cartoon of Shiv pulling his strings, is planning to replace her with her own estranged-ish husband. ![]() Kendall lobbies his siblings for their support in a vote against the GoJo deal. ![]() Roman recovers from the wounds he incurred when he threw himself into a protest after fumbling his eulogy at Logan’s funeral. The finale of Succession takes us from the Roy siblings’ home of New York to their mother Caroline’s house in the Bahamas and back. ![]()
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