The end of “Succession” is upon us. In a new interview, Jesse Armstrong, the show’s creator, explains his decision to conclude the drama.
was scheduled to call for a chat earlier this month, he sent a polite text saying that he was “adrift in traffic”: could he delay by fifteen? Traffic congestion served as an early plot point in Season 1 of “Succession”: who can forget the excruciating sequence in which Kendall Roy, having plotted the boardroom ouster of Logan Roy, the patriarch who won’t move on, is stuck in traffic—forced to leap out of his car in order to run in his leather-soled shoes toward the Waystar Royco headquarters,...
It’s like when you’re reading a book, you know how far away from the end of the book you are. As a reader or viewer, there can be something very satisfying in the sense of knowing that you are coming to an end. I don’t know whether that’s a psychological trick on myself, to stop being sad about stopping doing something which I really, really enjoyed. Or it’s a creative trick to make us not get lachrymose or sentimental, or kind of do it differently than we have done before.
It’s just very complicated, isn’t it? I mean, he is not a terribly sophisticated person emotionally. But all of us, on a sort of personal and generational level, how do we feel about being succeeded by the next people who are coming along? Well, there’s a certain amount of pride and enjoyment. But there’s a certain amount of extreme, pressed anger at the passing of your prime, and your powers, and eventually your life.
There’s something awful, and something wonderful, isn’t there, about the fact that human life has to carry on even though it’s gone through maybe a crisis that looks like it will be completely transformative or completely denude a person of all power? Guess what—they still have to get up and carry on. Kendall is quite resilient in certain ways, and maybe some of that is sort of a mental defect. Maybe it is in all of us—being able to be resilient In the face of really tough things.
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