#Finalshot of logan series#
If Logan won’t let Kendall go, then Kendall might do something terrible and drastic in order to achieve that end.įinally, Kendall is an addict, but for most of seasons two and three, the series has depicted him as someone who is at least trying to stay sober. Maybe the episode’s final shot depicts Kendall testing his father’s theory once and for all, in a way that will scar his children. “How long was that kid alive before he started sucking in water?” Logan says. Logan rejects this deal and taunts Kendall with the fact that the waiter’s death will forever mean Kendall is bound, at least somewhat, to him. Kendall is trying to escape his family and the family business for good, offering Logan a deal that will essentially allow Kendall to become “a ghost” (his own words!). It’s later invoked by Logan in a scene where he and Kendall have a last supper of sorts. It’s first invoked by publicist Comfry, who tells Kendall he has an invitation to go on a podcast that is digging into the many Roy scandals, including the waiter’s death. The death of the waiter comes up in “Chiantishire” as well. The dark, enthralling power of Succession Kendall, distraught about this, has spent most of the subsequent two seasons trying to find a way to escape that dark and terrible moment, first through utter despair (most of season two), then through trying in vain to topple his father while keeping his father’s empire for himself (most of season three). Logan helped cover up Kendall’s involvement in the accident, thereby drawing Kendall further into his clutches. He escaped, but the young waiter in the car with him drowned. Succession loves its foreshadowing, and all of that water imagery might have been leading to this very moment.Įven more vital to this argument, however, is that in the season one finale, Kendall crashed a car he was driving into a pond while high on ketamine. Kendall very frequently submerges himself in water across the first three seasons, and the first episode of season three features Kendall, fully clothed, getting into an empty bathtub when he needs to decompress for a few minutes. There’s at least somewhat compelling evidence throughout the run of the show. So, uh, Kendall’s dead, right? He just drowned himself? Soon, we see bubbles streaming from Kendall’s nose, as the camera slowly rotates around him in a counter-clockwise direction. Kendall sticks his face in the water, releasing the beer bottle so it floats down toward the camera, but upside down, giving everything a curious, weightless feel.
His kids have excused themselves from sitting poolside, and Kendall is … not having a great time of it.ĭirector Mark Mylod cuts to a shot of this moment that shoots up from the bottom of the pool. He’s having a beer in the pool, floating in the Italian sun. So this is Kendall Roy, once the family golden boy and now the punching bag. Kendall lets a bottle of beer float to the bottom of the pool. Okay, but seriously, if you don’t want to be spoiled on the final shot of “Chiantishire,” please exit the premises now, because I’m about to just show you that final shot.
Spoilers follow! Why that final shot might suggest somebody’s dead lEAOcmU5bo- nicholas “jospeh” tofani December 6, 2021īut Succession stans were way more animated about a very different topic once the episode ended: Did the final shot of “Chiantishire” prove that a certain character was dead? For instance, consider my favorite tweet on the matter and this absolutely perfect sloppy Photoshop, both of which capture Roman’s emotional journey throughout the scene. Roman’s mis-text was a topic of much delight and amusement on Twitter Dot Com and other social media sites the day after the episode aired. (And the implications that Gerri could be the one to see her downfall due to Roman’s impropriety might offer a whole additional way to talk about the show’s sad, realistic depiction of workplace misogyny.) That moment was so memorable and so perfectly on point in regards to the series’ unique blend of dark comedy and corporate skullduggery that I figured it would be all any of us could talk about. He meant to send it to Waystar-Royco interim CEO Gerri Kelman (with whom Roman has a longstanding will-they/won’t-they), but mistakenly messaged his father instead. After I finished watching a screener of “Chiantishire,” the penultimate episode of Succession’s third season, I figured the day-after chatter about the episode would be about how Roman Roy had accidentally sent a photo of his penis to his father.
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