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'Succession' Creator Jesse Armstrong Reveals What Happens to the Characters Post-Finale

Mehera Bonner
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Succession is over and with it the literal only reason to enjoy Sunday nights. But while the show has ended, the fictional Roys are still out there living their best/worst lives—and creator Jesse Armstrong did us all a favor and gave some insight into what happens to them post-finale.

As he put it in an after-show mini-doc (via Variety), “I thought about all their stories. You know, they don’t end. They will carry on. But it’s sort of where this show loses interest in them because they’ve lost what they wanted, which was to succeed — which, you know, was this prize that their father held out."

On that note, here's where things stand for post-finale Roman, Shiv, and Kendall, aka "the eldest boy."

Roman Roy

Armstrong explains that “In a reductive, brutal way, Roman ends up exactly where he started. He is that guy still. And he maybe easily could have been a playboy jerk with some slightly nasty instincts, and some quite funny jokes. He could’ve stayed in a bar, being that guy. And this has been a bit of a detour in his life, I would say.”

Shiv Roy

“Shiv is still in play, I’d say, in a rather terrifying, frozen emotionally barren place,” Armstrong says. “But she has got this kind of non-victory, non-defeat. I mean, there’s gonna be some movement there. There’s still a lot of that game to play out, but that’s where we leave it. And it feels like it’s going to be hard to progress for them, emotionally, given the things they’ve said about each other."

Kendall

Armstrong reveals that “For Kendall, this will never stop being the central event of his life, the central days of his life, central couple of years of his life. Maybe he could go on and start a company, or do a thing. But the chances of him achieving the sort of corporate status that his dad achieved are very low. And I think that will mark his whole life.”

Here's to hoping Kendall launches a successful company and finds happiness, I guess. *runs away crying.*

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