The Watercooler: As Succession Ends, Did Anyone Succeed?

And the Yellowjackets finale was BIG.

I know, in my bones, that Succession isn’t the kind of show that delivers typically soap-operatic twists. But Kendall Roy has always seemed so doomed that, all night, it felt like they were dangling his death in front of us. When he went swimming in the ocean in the dark, after joking with his siblings about sharks in the water, I wrote, “EATEN BY JAWS?” When he drank an intentionally gross concoction his siblings made, I wrote, “DEATH BY FOOD POISONING?” And when, at the end, he wandered dejectedly through New York City, I wrote, “HIT BY BUS?” And though none of those things happened to him in a literal sense, Kendall did swim with the sharks and get eaten; his siblings did, in the end, poison him in their own ways, and he did, finally, get hit by a metaphorical bus. And while his ramble to the tip of the island did not result in him hurling himself into the choppy water as my excited capsy typing predicted, he did, in a sense, sit there and drown.

Last night’s 90-minute finale playe…