How ‘Succession’ Captured the Zeitgeist of Our Mean, Bitter Times | Commentary
thewrap.comdidn’t happen. The screen didn’t suddenly go black while the Roy family ate onion rings at a diner in New Jersey. Roman didn’t experience an epiphany at a hippy retreat in California and dream up an iconic Coca Cola jingle.
Kendall didn’t wake up in Suzanne Pleshette’s bed.Exactly where “Succession’s” last episode will rank in the litany of TV’s greatest finales is for future pop culture historians to decide, assuming pop culture historians even bother to pay attention to that sort of thing in the future.
Let’s face it, series finales — like the ones that ended “The Sopranos,” “Mad Men,” and “Newhart” — just don’t pack the same punch they used to, even for smart, buzzy, satirically dark dramas produced by the network formally known as HBO.
Only about 2.9 million people tuned into to the newly christened Max to say buh-bye to the Roy clan last Sunday night. That was an historically strong finish for a series that only occasionally poked its head above 2.5 million viewers over its four-season run, but still.
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