“AI ain’t gonna write Succession, or Chinatown or The Godfather,” says Jeremy Strong of what’s at stake with the writers’ strike. “It’s just not going to,” the actor who brought Jesse Armstrong’s words for Kendall Roy to life bluntly adds.
The Emmy winner knows of what he speaks. In the end, with the conclusion of the HBO satire on May 28, there was nothing artificial about the demise of squabbling siblings Kendall Siobhan (Sarah Snook) and Roman (Kieran Culkin) in their failed desire to succeed their deceased father Logan (Brian Cox).
In the end, for all his scheming, all his buzzwords, all his entitlement, Kendall could not grasp the Waystar Royco crown, and it was his sister and brother who denied it to him.
In the end, Lukas Matsson (Alexander Skarsgård) and tech giant GoJo’s multi-billion-dollar takeover succeeded, and Kendall Roy was just another broken rich guy looking in at the action from the outside in what was a brutal and beautiful finale — as I said in my review.
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