Succession (HBO) TV Show • Page 45

dead as that kid

 

we will see. can't wait for it.

 

No way Roman is packing that weight of hammer

 

This doesn’t really feel like a show that kills people, but we’ll see!

 

Ah yes, the car accident in the first season just never happened

 

to be fair that’s 1 out of 28 episodes where someone has died. Heck, we still have the worlds angriest vegetable around, they could have easily killed him off but chose not to lol

 

Deaths have more impact when they happen less often, I don't think the frequency or lack thereof of death in Succession means that the show *can't* kill someone in the finale and have it feel in line with the show. It very well could. But it's all about the execution.

Kendall killing himself because he can't handle the guilt of what he did? Or Logan having a heart attack after all his health problems this season? Those things would feel totally in line with the show's arc to me. Roman going nut-nut and shooting Kendall in the head at their mom's wedding (or insert a different crazy scenario here) would not.

 

What if Greg did it?

 

NRPI

 

There is that, but that’s clearly different than killing off a key member of your ensemble. I hope Kendall isn’t dead, I think there’s still a lot they can do with him and am not a fan of shocking main character deaths in general, but otherwise I truly don’t know why you’d shoot that scene like that.

 

I feel like if that’s it for Kendall, it would be maybe one of the most anticlimactic main character death scenes ever on a tv show? I’m still holding out hope he’s faking it and jumps out of a coffin to a song and dance or something lol

Then again

what if the rest of this show is just something similar happening to a roy each season until it’s just Logan sitting at a table himself?

 

the ringer pod made a decent point that in jeremy strong's profile on the new yorker, there were some damning quotes from caulkin and cox that they said you wouldn't say about someone who you we're going to be working with in the future.

 

Lol at people complaining about the film execution of a character’s death without even knowing if the character died or not

 

It’d be weird if they killed off one of the best parts of the show.

that said, I’m not saying he doesn’t die next episode, but I am almost certain this isn’t *how* he dies. He will have a severe sunburn from falling asleep in the Italian sun however

 

What if he isn’t even mentioned in the finale and then gets a spin-off show?

 

Kendall will join Rick Grimes in the walking dead movies

 

I think Kendall will go to the ER but survive and then all of the other characters see the error of their ways and apologize to him

 

the real Succession is the friends they all made along the way

 

“Kendall, I’m sorry. You can put the magazine cover of me shitting the bag back up if you want. Love, Connor.”

 

After taking time to consider stuff, I’d be very surprised if Kendall is just dead. Isn’t it supposed to be super hard to purposefully drown yourself? Outside of being drunk out of your mind but even then (cw: suicide) I live near a bridge that, horribly, has seen a lot of people taking their lives and the authorities repeatedly say it’s not that they drowned, it’s that they got caught in the mud on the bottom and couldn’t make it back up. Assuming lots of drownings occur with things that happen outside of the person’s control, for example of course being stuck in the seat belt in S1 so yeah I think the show would majorly jump the shark if that’s the case.

 

I don’t think so lol

 

I don't think he's doing it on purpose. He's passed out.

 

I’m with you, I think. The truth about the waiter feels like a massive Chekhov’s gun that (imo) loses 90% of its potency if Kendall is dead, and by accident at that, before it gets out.

I guess it’s possible that the podcast mention was to remind us in order to set up the brutal dinner conversation, and to show that the truth has the potential to get out and bring Logan down even if not from Kendall directly. But we’ve seen Logan do and say so much horrible shit that that would feel almost unearned to me at this point…unless there’s a narrative arc for Kendall in the truth coming out, too.

(I mean, personally I feel like the possibility that Kendall has a shred of human decency inside him and finally acts on it is way more compelling than “Kendall spends the whole season losing harder and harder until he dies accidentally like the loser he is,” but I digress.)

Now that I’ve said that watch Kendall be dead and the waiter to never matter again more than cursory mention at all haha.

 

Roman was always a dick but as soon as he got the tinniest bit of attention from his dad he's turned into a monster lmao.

 

I wouldn’t say that, if Kendall dies, the waiter won’t matter again. This show is really, really good at setting things up and handling the consequences of things that happen, however big or small. Kendall dying could spark media scrutiny on all things Roys, leading to who knows what. Roman’s harassment and Shiv’s affairs becoming public, victims from the cruise scandal deciding to come forward, the dead waiter at Shiv’s wedding. Kendall’s death could be a catalyst for a lot of things happening that throw the Roys into having to face the consequences of their inhumane behavior, though I still think they’ll mostly end up fine, if inconvenienced/publicly shamed, as the show has always felt more about personally facing the ways in which you’ve replicated the trauma inflicted on you, rather than explicit comeuppance