Jesse and Mark Mylod said this was a show about family trauma. In an interview with Vulture, in which he explicitly called the show “a tragedy”, he said: “We talked about The Godfather a lot at the beginning. Yes, even the much-abused and now almost underrated third film in the series.Īccording to Strong, these parallels are wholly intentional.
Yet perhaps its most notable progenitor, both in its focus on an intense father-son relationship revolving around the succession of the family business and in its unflinching gaze at contemporary America told through the story of one amoral family, is surely Francis Ford Coppola’s Godfather trilogy.
Jesse Armstrong’s remarkable series – which, much to the relief of its millions of fans, stuck the landing – has been compared to everything from Greek tragedy to Shakespeare to Armstrong’s co-created sitcom Peep Show in its inimitable mixture of profane, rapid-fire and often scabrously comic dialogue with a grand, operatic arc. His grief at his loss is only equalled by his knowledge that, despite the grandstanding and fireworks of his funeral oration the previous week, he has remained a small man, never able to scale the heights that Logan so brutishly ascended. It is no great surprise that Kendall is unsuccessful in his aims, not least, because as his sister Shiv has so helpfully noted a few moments before, he is not suited – morally, physically or emotionally – to the task. Spoilers for the final episode of Succession followĪt the end of the final episode of Succession, Jeremy Strong’s Kendall Roy walks dazed and defeated through a park, having been thwarted in the only ambition that he has held in life: to become the CEO of his father Logan’s company Waystar Royco and, in doing so, prove that he is fit and worthy to be his successor.
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