Succession Ends With a Roy Family Bloodbath, and a New CEO

After 90 blistering minutes of wheeling, dealing, begging, borrowing, and pleading, Succession’s series finale closed out with a new sheriff in town: Matthew Macfadyen’s opportunistic exec, officially anointed as the CEO of Waystar Royco. Tom beat the odds to win the chair with a last-minute assist from his estranged wife, Sarah Snook’s Shiv, who made a dramatic eleventh-hour decision to vote against her brother Kendall. “I love you, I really, I love you—but I can’t fucking stomach you,” she tells Jeremy Strong’s character, shortly after walking away from the episode’s...