Succession: Critics praise 'perfect, brutal' finale
Posted on AllSides May 29th, 2023
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The Daily Telegraph's Ed Power said "perfect finales are difficult to pull off, and [writer Jesse] Armstrong came close", but added it "wasn't quite as Shakespearean as we may have hoped for". CNN's Brian Lowry used an aquatic metaphor to describe the show, saying the Roy children "took a pleasant swim together in the Succession finale, which turned out to be a perfect prelude to the show's parting demonstration of the perils of swimming with sharks". Writing about the show's potential legacy, the Daily Mail's Adam S Levy made the...