‘Succession’ Creator Explains Roman, Shiv and Kendall’s True Motivations on Election Night
thewrap.com“Succession” creator Jesse Armstrong always knew he wanted to tackle a presidential election in the HBO series, but he didn’t want to do so until the final season of the show.
That moment came in Season 4 Episode 8, titled “America Decides,” which saw the Roy children scrambling on election night and juggling some serious moral quandaries when it came to calling the election via ATN.“I’ve always wanted to do a presidential election, so it’s just been a question of when.
It was part of the discussions of whether this should be the final season and the placement of when the election would take place in the arc of the seasons,” Armstrong said on the “Succession” podcast.“It was one of the reasons for wanting to just go out with this last one that I felt like I wanted it to be near the end, and with where I wanted Logan’s demise to fall, it helped to make the decision for this to be the final season.
I’ve always felt they have a bunch of things, this family, but what is their primary way of acting on the culture in the political world?
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