I binged watched season one to three to get caught up with the show's final season, I just fell in love with the writing and direction, the visual language and storytelling. It's been a fascinating ride full of intrigue, tension and characters you love to hate. These actors are skillful, using improvisation like the showrunner/directors wanted, but also ending up making some of the finest dramatic performances on television, many have won awards during the series run and I'm sure someone will win for this episode, most likely Jeremy Strong as Kendall Roy. There was not a single bad performance, every single one was great and most were even perfect. As the "antagonist" of these two seasons, Alexander Skarsgård is great as always as Lukas Matsson. Some other performances I loved were Kieran Culkin as Roman Roy, Matthew Macfadyen as Tom Wambsgans and Sarah Snook as Siobhan "Shiv" Roy. Great actors in spectacular roles.
Ahead of the final board meeting on the Waystar-Gojo Deal, Kendall and Shiv try to shore up their opposing interests...and get a fix on the whereabouts of a physically and emotionally bruised Roman.
Mark Mylod directed the final episode of the series, of 84 minutes, it's one hell of a great episode, it's superb from start to finish. Mark Mylod has directed many episodes of the show's run, alongside that, he's also an executive producer. I love his direction, he's perfect at what he does, both using the camera and how he interprets the script to screen, brilliant job. The cinematography is stunning and utterly mesmerizing, perfect. Nicholas Britell's musical score is as good as always, just a master at work, he is.
The showrunner and creator of Succession, Jesse Armstrong, he said how this ending was on his first draft when he wrote the screenplay for the series. He had a vision for a TV show and it became a phenomenon. The writing have been on the same level during all these four seasons, the dialogue have never declined and neither has the story. Maybe the final season wasn't as great as the previous ones and I believe the reason for that is solely because of the surprise death of Logan Roy. The ending was brilliant and memorable, not how I expected it to be. The show has never been easy to predict and it continued to the very end, even the final scene was not how I predicted it to turn out after you see the end result. It's perfect. Some critics have called Succession one of the best television series of all time, after watching it all, I can only agree. From the writing, acting, musical score, directing and production values. The show have always showed quality and the people who worked on this show, made Succession into what it is, a superb drama and a superb black comedy. Maybe this ending isn't for everyone, but the reason it worked so well for me is just because of how real it was, the show have always placed realism over what will the viewers like the most. I like that. It's 84 minutes of brilliant drama.