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Thefinale ofSuccessionwas a beautiful, bone-rattling thing.
You could also call itOzarkSyndrome, orHouse of Cards/Man in the High Castle/DaredevilSyndrome.
(Game of Thrones, heres looking at you!)
Successions favorite episodic formula is not hard to identify.
In nearly every episode of season two, Roys jet off to some new location.
They travel en masseto the Argestes conference, and everything is pointed toward the potential Pierce sale.
Every new location offers new opportunities to judge ones worth.
Is Shiv on the family jet to London, or does she need to get there herself?
Successionis still playing a long game.
Things that happen early on the show reverberate weeks and months later.
Making episodes with aggressively self-contained conceits is not the only way to make a great TV show.
(Sometimes stuff justhappens, man.)
Instead, they arrive again and again at these exclusive places and are effectively locked inside.
Successions episodes tell elegant, opulent, contained stories, and the form mimics the theme.
These people are held apart, insular and isolated from everything else.
Their lives exist in self-contained spaces, hermetically sealed from the rest of the world.
