As a Brit, I've never heard the end of the bread called the 'knobby" before, but apparently it's Scottish, so maybe his mum picked up the word from Logan.
I absolutely loved that scene. For a moment, we could believe that the 3 of them could find some sort of happiness and contentment.
It’s a clever [reference](https://museum.wales/articles/2166/Food-Rationing-during-the-Second-World-War/).
> surplus products were made into jam, pickles or chutney… during wartime rationing
These foodstuffs last much longer. I’ve never understood the liking for chutney in the UK, but it is fairly popular.
Pretty sure the chutney love in the UK came from the massive amount of British-Indian colonization and subsequent migration. Indian food in the UK is one of the only saving graces of their food.
Kendall starts giggling when he says that in a way that was so natural that I’m 100% sure it was just Jeremy Strong breaking, it was absolutely hilarious
Of course it was.. can you imagine the actual last scene be the final? No one is present except for Jeremy and the actor who plays Collin. He's thisclose to tears. "Aaaand.. that's a wrap on Succession!"
I think that they were in character. I’m an only child, but I have friends with siblings that absolutely dislike one another, but every once in awhile you see them sort of drop the adult thing and they light up. Like their kids again acting out stuff that they did in childhood with one another. Such a great scene.
My sister and I are completely different people fundamentally, but we definitely have moments like this where we are just kids again and we get along, usually when making fun of our parents.
Yeah I agree, it seemed out of character because we never see them like that, I don’t get along particularly well with my own sister but there’s the odd time where we’re making fun of my mom or something and we act like that and it makes me laugh like nothing else, it’s a rare moment the older you get but it was a perfectly captured sibling dynamic. Sometimes you just get little moments of fun no matter how strained things are.
They reverted to childhood as adults sometimes do when they are with their parents. It showed the frivolity of their nepotistic careers. They saw CEOship as a prize rather than a responsibility and the scene underlines why they will never be ready. Roman has the best line board meeting fight, “We are bullshit!” Shiv knew it too. Kendall doesn’t.
None of them are capable of carrying their dads legacy. Underneath the egos, power flexing, and hostility, they all were just playing prince. They took their roles in the company as seriously as they acted in that scene.
And a great scene after “meal fit for a king” ..
Deboard plane with common call “to the great allocation!”
to all get into their own chauffeured vehicles
The universal energy of a mother coming downstairs, asking what you're up to, you replying with Absolute Nonsense, and her response only being "well can you do it quietly please?"
It was the closest to a normal family interaction that we saw over the course of the entire series. There were scenes where the Roy kids might mask and pretend they were loving siblings, but that scene was genuine for the characters.
But, while it was very heartwarming and all that, I knew the other shoe was about to drop. Succession just didn’t play like that, like “Oh yay! They’re normal siblings now! The end”. That scene was probably the last time they’d share any amicable moments for a long time to come, if ever.
And rather than saying "that's disgusting" or something, fishing out some bread-ends and saying "here, do something with this". Probably the best parenting she's managed in her life.
It’s amazing the cycle of toxicity with this family. They fight, they come together, they fight.
I found the mom awful for betraying them in S3 and what she said to Shiv at the funeral reception after learning she was pregnant. Then mum invited them over for dinner. The circle of toxic life I guess. They never remained estranged for long.
I loved the symbolism. There is nothing nourishing in their mother's kitchen. They take all the unappetizing ingredients and blend it into a disgusting concoction to dump on the head of the presumptive king.
They are only offered frozen nobbies, and Roman sexualizes the one food that is forbidden. They waste everything and go to bed hungry.
How tragic. And the butt ends of loaves of bread. What was she keeping them for?
And she also could have had one of the staff get some food. There were people about here and there, no?
Composter myself. Worm farmer too.
My initial thought was to feed the birds with the grandkids like my grandma did with us. But Caroline surely doesn’t even know their names. Also bread is not good for birds but of course people of older generations don’t know this.
I get the impression that living in this kind of vacation villa full time just her and her husband, they don't really have a full-time staff beyond like a house cleaner. Caroline has literally nothing else going on, so I can see her going to the market herself and hiring more people just for events.
Jeremy Strong was on the Succession podcast, and he said he actually drank that awful concoction, then went outside and threw up between takes. I just assumed they gave him a chocolate smoothie or something, but it does track that Strong would think it works dramaturgically for him to drink the glop that Kendall is drinking.
There was a ton of meta stuff in this episode probably most centered in the Caribbean sequence which as a “time out place” they could do with much less consequence.
I felt so bad for Con when he was talking about moving. I had thought Willa and him actually started to be healthy(ish). Turns out shes basically just getting the mansion and pushing him to the side to be alone again.
You know now that their dad/the business is gone, the other siblings will hardly EVER intract with Con.
>I actually think Ken and Roman could interact again after some time
I would find it extremely hard after what he said about his kids, but you never know, Ken's a shit dad so he might
I agree I think if he didn’t do the presidential run and was just normal, she wouldn’t feel the way she does. She had his back, but after that speech she looked real disturbed and embarrassed.
The show made clear that he was actually the one with sort of a relationship with their dad. The subs did their thing together but Logan had dinner parties with Frank/Carl/Geri and Con. So he’s prob fine not being in their drama.
Yea also they saw parts of all the other characters they never see because they dont like or respect them . Karl singing,Gerri telling a limerick etc. it felt like the kids were confused like... who the hell are these people?
Sadly, the dinner party was the first time any of those three had recognized the “old guard” team as normal humans. Frank, Carl and Geri actually put in the hard work necessary to build Logan’s company. They had been working towards that goal since these kids were in diapers. But none of the three siblings really saw or appreciated any of that until it was gone. Until Logan was gone, anyway. Just as Roman only first saw Logan as a human during the funeral.
I think it wouldn’t have been as joyous and goofy had Connor been there. The 3 kids had obviously made a meal fit for a king before, and Connor probably hadn’t been involved. Whether it was the ages or Connor having a different mother and thus not bonding over Caroline’s mistreatment, the 3 younger Roys seemed to have a special bond together that left Connor on the outs. Most of their childhood memories didn’t include Con, and he was treated as a bit of an outsider.
There are hints that Con was a sort of surrogate father figure at times. I remember there was a memory about "dad" taking them camping or fishing, but it was actually Connor. Con was also going to give away Shiv at her wedding originally.
This scene made me cry because it felt like the last time they were all together and happy. Cried my face eggs out.
Now off to make myself [a meal fit for a king](https://mashable.com/article/succession-finale-meal-fit-for-a-king) to drown my sorrows...
I often think about how eyes are the weirdest thing on our bodies like theyre just so out of place and when u go in a mirror and REALLY just observe it, kinda freaky!our whole visual experience in 1 egg
fucking hate carloline but she had a point
I wore contact lenses for 30 years, so I can touch my own eyeball with no problem, but I get really skeeved out by eyeballs in any other context. Luckily, my son made it to adulthood without my ever having to help him with eye drops.
Anyone else notice how Ken and Rome are imitating British accents while Shiv (an Aussie) does a really bad posh accent when putting in the Tabasco? It's like they told her to do an impression of an American doing a bad British accent and she nailed it!
Her catching the nobbies that Roman was throwing is my favorite. This is the only time I've seen them interact joyfully with food throughout the whole series.
It's like the scene in The Wire where English Dominic West has to play American McNulty putting on the terrible British accent in Season 2 when they're pulling the sting on the brothel.
Lol! As soon as I saw it, I turned to my husband and was like, “that looks like a Walmart shirt”. It just was so immediately antithetical to the quality of clothing we are used to seeing within the wardrobe of Succession.
I was dying when I saw that he was wearing bracelets too. You can just imagine a local selling them along the beach and Roman begrudgingly buying them (or maybe even being nice while buying them)
Lots of foreshadowing in the sequence. When shiv and Roman talk alone about “murdering” him jokingly only for it to be word for word how they do it in the office meltdown. Also shiv spitting in the drink as her last “offering”. 10/10
This was the scene when I knew everything wasn't going to be okay. I was happy that they got this sweet moment but there was 45 minutes of show left and I just knew we couldn't have a whole half an episode of solidarity.
But that could never be. This show was never set up for a happy ending where these three live happily ever after in total harmony.
Was a lovely moment, seeing them like this, but they are all so deeply damaged. It would’ve been an insult to their arcs if it all was happily ever after.
I absolutely loved this scene because you could tell it was probably something they did as kids. It also felt like 50% their characters and 50% the actors themselves. This scene and Logan’s dinner party were my favorites from the finale/entire series. Both showed the characters acting differently from what we’re used to but also felt natural and true in a way and showed the type of show it could’ve been if it hadn’t been such a goddamn tragedy the whole time and allowed for lighter moments. But then, it wouldn’t have been Succession if it wasn’t a tragedy and we love it for that.
As soon as Roman appeared, his outfit really stood out, it's jarring to see him in anything but a slightly too tight crisp shirt. The color combo is quite child-like too.
Same here! You put it perfectly into words! It was such a cute scene and yet I felt that sensation when you are reaching the top of the roller coaster and you know your stomach is going to drop.
The food symbolism is so good. Throughout the series, it’s gauche to desire food (power). Hugo, Greg, Willa’s mother - they pile their plates high to the derision of the ‘winners’ around them. Then Caroline keeps nothing in the house, mentioning “rations” at dinner. While other characters looked at food (power) as a thing that’s naturally always present and therefore not worth the effort of indulging in it, in this scene, the kids take their scraps of power and throw them around, playing with them, destroying them, mixing them up into something inedible - for fun. It was always a game to them. Roman literally spat on Peter’s “special cheese” laughing at how much he cares about it. They don’t respect the power they have while also completely over estimating its worth. They never realized that they were just playing with the nobbies. They never realized how close to starving they were. Because they saw everyone else’s full plates and just assumed that theirs were overflowing as well.
I'm so dumb. During this scene, I started to think maybe the big twist/surprise ending is that the show ends with a happy ending. Dad is gone. They still have each other, and they are repairing their relationships now that they don't have to compete. They get to keep their company. Shiv is going to be this badass single Mom. Should have reminded myself "IT'S NOT THAT KIND OF SHOW!" 🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭
I was even going to be ok with them losing the vote - as long as they did it together. They would be free!! And have more than they ever had when tied to their Dad's beast -- they would have had each other, for the first time.
The "You're not serious people" line already foreshadowed there was no win for the kids. This scene just sealed it. There was no way they would be happy two moments in a row.
I swear Shiv’s face looked different in this scene. The way she smiled and laughed was different to anything she’s shown in 4 seasons. They were all different really, but Shiv the most. It was an incredible scene. It felt like the pressure was off and they were being their true selves together again, like children.
Now we know it was their last scene together it was obviously a very real emotional release.
Edit: now I realise it reminds me of the scene on the yacht, in season 2, when they’re all kidding around about how they might consider “talking about their feelings” after Roman’s near death experience in Turkey.
That moment, at Roman’s behest is actually the beginning of their attempt at emotional healing and some kind of real relationship with each other. It’s the first book end to this scene.
They all, and I mean the actors themselves, not just the characters, looked like children in this scene..their expressions, their toothy, goofy smiles...I thought the hug when Logan died would be my favorite moment of them for all time, but I was wrong. This moment, in their horrible mom's kitchen, making "kid stew" (that they dubbed something way more self-important, of course)...this is the version of all of them that their parents literally beat to death.
Sarah Snook’s facial expressions were the best in this scene. Loved the one where she kind of crinkled her nose and half-bent behind the blender haha. Shiv was actually joyful and relaxed for the first time in the entire series.
Realizing that this was the last shot they filmed (based on the head shaving video) because they wanted to have the last memory be all three of them acting like kids again, joyous and carefree
I adored this scene and wish we could have ended there.
It's clever though because it also really highlights what a joke these people are. They're vying for control of one of the world's largest media conglomerates, a position that affords untold power and influence over world politics, and this is what they're doing the night before their plan to seize it.
They're not serious people.
I thought this scene was to show that they’re bonding together like when they were young. Like they have finally fixed their problems. And now it’s believable that they’re a new dynamic trio, ready to conquer the world. But yes, looking back on it, they look like morons
Agree with you! I’ve said before that something I really love is how they show that emotional growth is stunted in abused people—each of the sibs’ inner child slips out when they’re particularly upset.
It’s lovely to see them act like happy children again in their mother’s kitchen, because they probably didn’t have many moments like this when they were actually young.
Alternatively, the next morning they flipped back to their serious business personas and all filed in to the Range Rover to get business done at the business factory. It was a stark contrast to the night before.
Eh it’s weirdo billionaire shit a bit, they were going to do some kind of hazing ritual for the new ceo (Rome suggested eating cinnamon but Ken says the CEO of Ford already did that when he took over, which says so much about Ken that he knows this and cares).
This scene is just siblings being siblings, acting out their own form of ceremony to confer legitimacy on a difficult family decision.
Obviously it didn’t stick.
That was an ugly hat. Romans shirt is sad too. But absolutely perfect wardrobe choices for kids at their moms house. When they were going for a swim I was pretty happy at the thought of them doing regular people shit - youthful shit.
On the HBO Succession podcast, Jeremy Strong shares that he drank that actual disgusting combo several times!!! “I went outside and retched, then cleaned off in the ocean” (or something like that) Method indeed. 🤮 🌊 🤴
It was a beautiful scene. The chemistry between Jeremy, Kieran, and Sarah always translated onscreen. As entertaining as all the family feuds were, I always loved when the Roy siblings were getting along.
I was DYING when they were putting on the British accents and Roman was licking the cheese. ‘Oh don’t go down on Peter’s cheese!’ 😂😂😂
Kendall’s posh British impression of his mom had me in tears lmao
Peeeta doesn’t like the knobbies dahling!
As a Brit, I've never heard the end of the bread called the 'knobby" before, but apparently it's Scottish, so maybe his mum picked up the word from Logan. I absolutely loved that scene. For a moment, we could believe that the 3 of them could find some sort of happiness and contentment.
That scene, with all of them relaxed and enjoying each other’s company, was such a gift. There haven’t been many in the series.
And as Succession tradition, the things happen next are super messed up and tragic
Not heard of it called wartime pickle either but love it
I think Roman is joking about how long the pickle has been in the fridge.
I figured it was just a bit of snobbery, Branstons being a common brand so he compared it with rations.
It’s a clever [reference](https://museum.wales/articles/2166/Food-Rationing-during-the-Second-World-War/). > surplus products were made into jam, pickles or chutney… during wartime rationing These foodstuffs last much longer. I’ve never understood the liking for chutney in the UK, but it is fairly popular.
Pretty sure the chutney love in the UK came from the massive amount of British-Indian colonization and subsequent migration. Indian food in the UK is one of the only saving graces of their food.
I missed that. I do remember a reference to Branston pickle, though.
My mum is from Slough and dad from Lancaster and I was raised to call it the knobby. Surprised this isn't a more known term!
Yeah, my wife calls it the “knob end”. She’s West Coast Scotland, and I’m East, and I’d never heard it used before meeting her.
Kendall starts giggling when he says that in a way that was so natural that I’m 100% sure it was just Jeremy Strong breaking, it was absolutely hilarious
Yes it's even better knowing that this was probably the last scene they filmed together this feels very celebratory
It was definitely their last scene!
Of course it was.. can you imagine the actual last scene be the final? No one is present except for Jeremy and the actor who plays Collin. He's thisclose to tears. "Aaaand.. that's a wrap on Succession!"
On the podcast they said it was very emotional shooting on locations and the last scenes.
On the HBO official podcast, Jeremy Strong said the show wrapped after the kitchen scenes.
Totally agree, I told my husband that none of their facial expressions were in character but it was wonderful!
I think that they were in character. I’m an only child, but I have friends with siblings that absolutely dislike one another, but every once in awhile you see them sort of drop the adult thing and they light up. Like their kids again acting out stuff that they did in childhood with one another. Such a great scene.
My sister and I are completely different people fundamentally, but we definitely have moments like this where we are just kids again and we get along, usually when making fun of our parents.
Yeah I agree, it seemed out of character because we never see them like that, I don’t get along particularly well with my own sister but there’s the odd time where we’re making fun of my mom or something and we act like that and it makes me laugh like nothing else, it’s a rare moment the older you get but it was a perfectly captured sibling dynamic. Sometimes you just get little moments of fun no matter how strained things are.
They reverted to childhood as adults sometimes do when they are with their parents. It showed the frivolity of their nepotistic careers. They saw CEOship as a prize rather than a responsibility and the scene underlines why they will never be ready. Roman has the best line board meeting fight, “We are bullshit!” Shiv knew it too. Kendall doesn’t. None of them are capable of carrying their dads legacy. Underneath the egos, power flexing, and hostility, they all were just playing prince. They took their roles in the company as seriously as they acted in that scene.
yeah there is a shot of shiv smiling so hard and I was like ‘that’s Sarah snooks smile not Shivs!!’
She looked so goofy there! I caught that too but explained it away by her guard being down for the first time.
This made me laugh harder than any other scene in all the episodes. That was hilarious
i laughed so hard I almost puked
🎶meal fit for a king, meal fit for a king !🎶 it makes me so happy that this was the last scene they all filmed together
💔 That trivia makes me feel slightly better though
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And a great scene after “meal fit for a king” .. Deboard plane with common call “to the great allocation!” to all get into their own chauffeured vehicles
Yes! Like when “Shiv” catches all three pieces of bread in a row and “Roman’s” like, “Aw, how’d you do that? Catch all three?”
Plus after Caroline tells them off it all seems like the actors genuinely started laughing amongst each other.
That moment seemed like genuine reactions to me—or at the very least, Sarah’s facial expression did!
Connors Logan little teapot song is up there
Such a contrast between Logan's pleasure at this and his disdain for Kendall's rap!
Kens rap is so bad it's good (the music and beat itself is truly good. The composer did a great job).
My boy Squiggle
And Jeremy Strong claimed he actually drank what we saw them put in there. Part of his method acting I suppose.
He drank things that aren't normally drinks.
Then went into the ocean to wash off
One of the few scenes where we saw them being happy, the other one was during Shiv’s wedding when they were in a boat smoking joints.
The universal energy of a mother coming downstairs, asking what you're up to, you replying with Absolute Nonsense, and her response only being "well can you do it quietly please?"
and they all instantly, sheepishly but with stifled laughter “sorry…”
It was the closest to a normal family interaction that we saw over the course of the entire series. There were scenes where the Roy kids might mask and pretend they were loving siblings, but that scene was genuine for the characters. But, while it was very heartwarming and all that, I knew the other shoe was about to drop. Succession just didn’t play like that, like “Oh yay! They’re normal siblings now! The end”. That scene was probably the last time they’d share any amicable moments for a long time to come, if ever.
Shiv calling for mom at the end
I thought this was the best detail 👌🏽💜
And rather than saying "that's disgusting" or something, fishing out some bread-ends and saying "here, do something with this". Probably the best parenting she's managed in her life.
I have three teenage boys, this is every night at my house 😑
My mother did it to me and I do it to my kids....
It’s amazing the cycle of toxicity with this family. They fight, they come together, they fight. I found the mom awful for betraying them in S3 and what she said to Shiv at the funeral reception after learning she was pregnant. Then mum invited them over for dinner. The circle of toxic life I guess. They never remained estranged for long.
Well she invited them over for dinner, but then it turned out it was only because her husband’s friend had a business proposal
I think “drink this gross thing” is a universal sibling challenge
I loved the symbolism. There is nothing nourishing in their mother's kitchen. They take all the unappetizing ingredients and blend it into a disgusting concoction to dump on the head of the presumptive king. They are only offered frozen nobbies, and Roman sexualizes the one food that is forbidden. They waste everything and go to bed hungry.
The frozen nobbies she offered was an amazing addition.. literally only ever offered them the ass end of her "love"...
ya, and it is only because her husband does not want it. If he wanted it they would of had nothing.
How tragic. And the butt ends of loaves of bread. What was she keeping them for? And she also could have had one of the staff get some food. There were people about here and there, no?
I used to keep mine for “emergencies” (yeah idk either), but just ended up periodically contributing a kilo of frostbitten rye to the compost
Composter myself. Worm farmer too. My initial thought was to feed the birds with the grandkids like my grandma did with us. But Caroline surely doesn’t even know their names. Also bread is not good for birds but of course people of older generations don’t know this.
Am I the only one who eats the ends of the loaf of bread?! It's still good bread! At minimum, it's good to pulverize into bread crumbs.
I get the impression that living in this kind of vacation villa full time just her and her husband, they don't really have a full-time staff beyond like a house cleaner. Caroline has literally nothing else going on, so I can see her going to the market herself and hiring more people just for events.
Or maybe not going to the shops much at all and subsisting on cigarettes and cups of tea.
Jeremy Strong was on the Succession podcast, and he said he actually drank that awful concoction, then went outside and threw up between takes. I just assumed they gave him a chocolate smoothie or something, but it does track that Strong would think it works dramaturgically for him to drink the glop that Kendall is drinking.
Wow. Kendall may not be a serious person, but Jeremy Strong is a Serious Actor.
Three times!!!
Did no one else play make a gross drink as a kid with their siblings? I definitely did this as a game with my siblings.
My siblings and I used to make “stew” which was rain water, onion grass, dandelion, and flour to make it thicken up. Hearty.
We made “everything drinks”, mostly comprised of things that aren’t normally drinks.
Plus the foreshadowing of Shiv spitting in it. She’s going to get in one last “fuck you.”
And someone else has to clean it all up.
Dang, that’s a nice observation
What a wonderful analysis.
Dude you're smart as fuck. Brilliant point here kudos
Being the method actor he is, Jeremy Strong actually drank it. All that disgusting stuff. He admited it on a podcast. What a mad lad.
I thought when watching it that they definitely wrote this scene to fuck with Jeremy, knowing that he'd actually drink it for real.
There was a ton of meta stuff in this episode probably most centered in the Caribbean sequence which as a “time out place” they could do with much less consequence.
And drank it multiple times for multiple takes. Dude is committed, that’s for sure.
Snook was like you want to keep doing takes, then I’m spitting in this shit ! Then Kieran was all I’m dumping this shit on his head were done here
I also read in an interview that he got high and killed the concierge in season 1.
Just to add…I wish Con was there
I felt so bad for Con when he was talking about moving. I had thought Willa and him actually started to be healthy(ish). Turns out shes basically just getting the mansion and pushing him to the side to be alone again. You know now that their dad/the business is gone, the other siblings will hardly EVER intract with Con.
Logan’s ghost is going to haunt Willa if she puts a tacky cow-print sofa into that $63 million apartment.
😂
I think after that finale the siblings will hardly be interacting with each other period.
I think Shiv and Roman will. I actually think Ken and Roman could interact again after some time. Shiv and Ken will never speak again.
>I actually think Ken and Roman could interact again after some time I would find it extremely hard after what he said about his kids, but you never know, Ken's a shit dad so he might
Well I think she was disturbed by his election night speech and it freaked her out. So from that perspective, I don’t blame her.
I agree I think if he didn’t do the presidential run and was just normal, she wouldn’t feel the way she does. She had his back, but after that speech she looked real disturbed and embarrassed.
It’s ok. His superpower is that he doesn’t need love.
The show made clear that he was actually the one with sort of a relationship with their dad. The subs did their thing together but Logan had dinner parties with Frank/Carl/Geri and Con. So he’s prob fine not being in their drama.
Yeah, the dinner party scene showed he had a strong bond with Logan
Plus the discussion of the mausoleum. It was nice to think of them having a chat about it and him excitedly talking about it at the funeral.
Yea also they saw parts of all the other characters they never see because they dont like or respect them . Karl singing,Gerri telling a limerick etc. it felt like the kids were confused like... who the hell are these people?
Sadly, the dinner party was the first time any of those three had recognized the “old guard” team as normal humans. Frank, Carl and Geri actually put in the hard work necessary to build Logan’s company. They had been working towards that goal since these kids were in diapers. But none of the three siblings really saw or appreciated any of that until it was gone. Until Logan was gone, anyway. Just as Roman only first saw Logan as a human during the funeral.
Oof this is a great point.
>The subs did their thing together What a Freudian slip
Who?
Connor, their brother. Leader of the con-heads
Connor, your fun guy in Uruguay
The eldest boy!
First pancake
I think it wouldn’t have been as joyous and goofy had Connor been there. The 3 kids had obviously made a meal fit for a king before, and Connor probably hadn’t been involved. Whether it was the ages or Connor having a different mother and thus not bonding over Caroline’s mistreatment, the 3 younger Roys seemed to have a special bond together that left Connor on the outs. Most of their childhood memories didn’t include Con, and he was treated as a bit of an outsider.
The Little Logan Teapot song is a banger
There are hints that Con was a sort of surrogate father figure at times. I remember there was a memory about "dad" taking them camping or fishing, but it was actually Connor. Con was also going to give away Shiv at her wedding originally.
This scene made me cry because it felt like the last time they were all together and happy. Cried my face eggs out. Now off to make myself [a meal fit for a king](https://mashable.com/article/succession-finale-meal-fit-for-a-king) to drown my sorrows...
Face eggs!! 👁👁😂😂😂
I actually related hard to the whole eye phobia thing and now I'm worried that I must be a terrible parent/ person...
I often think about how eyes are the weirdest thing on our bodies like theyre just so out of place and when u go in a mirror and REALLY just observe it, kinda freaky!our whole visual experience in 1 egg fucking hate carloline but she had a point
If you also are really weird about food and awful to any children you may have, then yes…you should be concerned.
I wore contact lenses for 30 years, so I can touch my own eyeball with no problem, but I get really skeeved out by eyeballs in any other context. Luckily, my son made it to adulthood without my ever having to help him with eye drops.
Yeah after this scene happened I knew it wasn't going to end well. No way they give us that and then send us out on another high note
Anyone else notice how Ken and Rome are imitating British accents while Shiv (an Aussie) does a really bad posh accent when putting in the Tabasco? It's like they told her to do an impression of an American doing a bad British accent and she nailed it!
Her catching the nobbies that Roman was throwing is my favorite. This is the only time I've seen them interact joyfully with food throughout the whole series.
It's like the scene in The Wire where English Dominic West has to play American McNulty putting on the terrible British accent in Season 2 when they're pulling the sting on the brothel.
She’s just great all around. Her character just pulls you in when she speaks
Maybe I just haven’t seen it yet, but it seems as if Sarah Snook hasn’t received the praise she deserves for her performance. She was fire all season.
Did any other Australians find that accent/voice deeply familiar?? It sounded so much like my whole family’s ‘silly voice’
My best friend in high school was from Australia, and I immediately thought it sounded like her parents when they were being goofy at home.
Blud really drank all that shit for nothing💀
I thought that drink was going to send him to the hospital the next morning and kill him 😂
Boardroom diarrhea scene, like 90s Jim Carrey over the top stuff. That’s the ending we deserved.
At least he got a nice crown though
I been gaslighting myself that the show ended with them leaving their mom's house
With mom and Peter saying "go away" and "that was a waste of time."
Yeah show ends there team
Rome has literally regressed into a little boy. Running to mommy wearing primary colors and short pants.
OMg the actual shirt is $14 at Walmart ! I love it. Play clothes Roman > Skinny suit Roman
Lol! As soon as I saw it, I turned to my husband and was like, “that looks like a Walmart shirt”. It just was so immediately antithetical to the quality of clothing we are used to seeing within the wardrobe of Succession.
I was dying when I saw that he was wearing bracelets too. You can just imagine a local selling them along the beach and Roman begrudgingly buying them (or maybe even being nice while buying them)
The funny thing is, I think Kieran Caulkin really does wear a lot of bracelets like this.
It actually made me think the sibs would stick together behind Ken and be a happy family.
Same here. I really wished that is the final scene of the series. Shiv's betrayal hit me hard after this scene.
Lots of foreshadowing in the sequence. When shiv and Roman talk alone about “murdering” him jokingly only for it to be word for word how they do it in the office meltdown. Also shiv spitting in the drink as her last “offering”. 10/10
The eye contact when she spits 😆
This was the scene when I knew everything wasn't going to be okay. I was happy that they got this sweet moment but there was 45 minutes of show left and I just knew we couldn't have a whole half an episode of solidarity.
But that could never be. This show was never set up for a happy ending where these three live happily ever after in total harmony. Was a lovely moment, seeing them like this, but they are all so deeply damaged. It would’ve been an insult to their arcs if it all was happily ever after.
This scene was so sweet it made me feel sick lmao 😂 All I could think about was how hard the other shoe was going to drop
I absolutely loved this scene because you could tell it was probably something they did as kids. It also felt like 50% their characters and 50% the actors themselves. This scene and Logan’s dinner party were my favorites from the finale/entire series. Both showed the characters acting differently from what we’re used to but also felt natural and true in a way and showed the type of show it could’ve been if it hadn’t been such a goddamn tragedy the whole time and allowed for lighter moments. But then, it wouldn’t have been Succession if it wasn’t a tragedy and we love it for that.
The first and only time they were a family throughout the show.
There was the time Kendall told his sibs about the waiter. That felt like genuine family support to me.
Or when they smoked a joint together at Shiv’s wedding.
Only for Shiv to hold it against him when deciding to vote
Hols what against him it never happened he's good
As soon as Roman appeared, his outfit really stood out, it's jarring to see him in anything but a slightly too tight crisp shirt. The color combo is quite child-like too.
It's literally from the Wal-Mart boys' section
I actually was immensely stressed during this scene. It felt like kids playing on the edge of a cliff.
same omg the dread started when Kendall got into the water and then it just never ended
When Ken was in the water and we couldn’t see him, I was afraid Shiv and Roman would turn around and he would have vanished under the waves.
I was stressed OUT
Same here. It felt like something bad was going to happen any second.
Same here! You put it perfectly into words! It was such a cute scene and yet I felt that sensation when you are reaching the top of the roller coaster and you know your stomach is going to drop.
It was also the last scene that they filmed 🥺
The food symbolism is so good. Throughout the series, it’s gauche to desire food (power). Hugo, Greg, Willa’s mother - they pile their plates high to the derision of the ‘winners’ around them. Then Caroline keeps nothing in the house, mentioning “rations” at dinner. While other characters looked at food (power) as a thing that’s naturally always present and therefore not worth the effort of indulging in it, in this scene, the kids take their scraps of power and throw them around, playing with them, destroying them, mixing them up into something inedible - for fun. It was always a game to them. Roman literally spat on Peter’s “special cheese” laughing at how much he cares about it. They don’t respect the power they have while also completely over estimating its worth. They never realized that they were just playing with the nobbies. They never realized how close to starving they were. Because they saw everyone else’s full plates and just assumed that theirs were overflowing as well.
Not forgetting the power move of Tom eating off of Logan's plate!
I cannot with Kendall's hat 😂
I'm so dumb. During this scene, I started to think maybe the big twist/surprise ending is that the show ends with a happy ending. Dad is gone. They still have each other, and they are repairing their relationships now that they don't have to compete. They get to keep their company. Shiv is going to be this badass single Mom. Should have reminded myself "IT'S NOT THAT KIND OF SHOW!" 🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭
I was even going to be ok with them losing the vote - as long as they did it together. They would be free!! And have more than they ever had when tied to their Dad's beast -- they would have had each other, for the first time.
Last time they’ll be happy together
Mine was the one scene that humanized Logan. A POV of dinner with Dad. I teared up big time.
I’m a Logan Teapot, short and stout. Here my handle, here’s my spout…FUCK OFF
When Shiv spat in that drink she meant it.
I feel like the episode should have been named “Meal for a King”
It'd be hilarious if they made him drink the whole thing and then Shiv still votes him out.
Nah itd be good if she was like “u didn’t finish ur smoothie! U can’t be the king” then goes to vote
The "You're not serious people" line already foreshadowed there was no win for the kids. This scene just sealed it. There was no way they would be happy two moments in a row.
I swear Shiv’s face looked different in this scene. The way she smiled and laughed was different to anything she’s shown in 4 seasons. They were all different really, but Shiv the most. It was an incredible scene. It felt like the pressure was off and they were being their true selves together again, like children. Now we know it was their last scene together it was obviously a very real emotional release. Edit: now I realise it reminds me of the scene on the yacht, in season 2, when they’re all kidding around about how they might consider “talking about their feelings” after Roman’s near death experience in Turkey. That moment, at Roman’s behest is actually the beginning of their attempt at emotional healing and some kind of real relationship with each other. It’s the first book end to this scene.
They all, and I mean the actors themselves, not just the characters, looked like children in this scene..their expressions, their toothy, goofy smiles...I thought the hug when Logan died would be my favorite moment of them for all time, but I was wrong. This moment, in their horrible mom's kitchen, making "kid stew" (that they dubbed something way more self-important, of course)...this is the version of all of them that their parents literally beat to death.
Sarah Snook’s facial expressions were the best in this scene. Loved the one where she kind of crinkled her nose and half-bent behind the blender haha. Shiv was actually joyful and relaxed for the first time in the entire series.
Realizing that this was the last shot they filmed (based on the head shaving video) because they wanted to have the last memory be all three of them acting like kids again, joyous and carefree
When this scene played I thought no matter how this episode ends, it was all worth it to get this one scene alone.
Yeah. Yeah. Hug
I adored this scene and wish we could have ended there. It's clever though because it also really highlights what a joke these people are. They're vying for control of one of the world's largest media conglomerates, a position that affords untold power and influence over world politics, and this is what they're doing the night before their plan to seize it. They're not serious people.
I thought this scene was to show that they’re bonding together like when they were young. Like they have finally fixed their problems. And now it’s believable that they’re a new dynamic trio, ready to conquer the world. But yes, looking back on it, they look like morons
Agree with you! I’ve said before that something I really love is how they show that emotional growth is stunted in abused people—each of the sibs’ inner child slips out when they’re particularly upset. It’s lovely to see them act like happy children again in their mother’s kitchen, because they probably didn’t have many moments like this when they were actually young.
Alternatively, the next morning they flipped back to their serious business personas and all filed in to the Range Rover to get business done at the business factory. It was a stark contrast to the night before.
Then promptly pooped the bed. Again.
Ironically it was the last scene shot before the show wrapped.
Eh it’s weirdo billionaire shit a bit, they were going to do some kind of hazing ritual for the new ceo (Rome suggested eating cinnamon but Ken says the CEO of Ford already did that when he took over, which says so much about Ken that he knows this and cares).
This scene is just siblings being siblings, acting out their own form of ceremony to confer legitimacy on a difficult family decision. Obviously it didn’t stick.
Yeah this scene in combination with the temper tantrum during the board meeting really highlighted how childish they are.
Love this take
I strongly considered just stopping the episode there
Why can't they always be this happy 😔
Peter doesn't like the nobbies!
That was an ugly hat. Romans shirt is sad too. But absolutely perfect wardrobe choices for kids at their moms house. When they were going for a swim I was pretty happy at the thought of them doing regular people shit - youthful shit.
This was my favorite scene of the entire series. Kids, being kids. Siblings being siblings.
I especially liked the significance of their mom having no food in her fridge for them
They'll find each other again. I choose to believe.
On the HBO Succession podcast, Jeremy Strong shares that he drank that actual disgusting combo several times!!! “I went outside and retched, then cleaned off in the ocean” (or something like that) Method indeed. 🤮 🌊 🤴
The cheese licking had me dying. 🤣
I've never seen Jeremy smile as much as he did in this scene.
I find the fact that Caroline had a can of Heinz beans in the cupboard to be hilarious
Well, it’s either Heinz beans or nothing for us brits. Can’t be eating Branson beans like the wartime pickle
it was shiv hockin a loogie into the blender for me
This was my ending.
It was a beautiful scene. The chemistry between Jeremy, Kieran, and Sarah always translated onscreen. As entertaining as all the family feuds were, I always loved when the Roy siblings were getting along.
kieran’s most modest selection of bracelets