As the finale looms, the darkly comedic drama about pettiness and politics stands as a brilliantly warped mirror of what Americans have suffered through since 2016
to the show’s “ludicrosity” – not a real word, but a pretty good descriptor for both Succession’s lyrically profane, painfully funny dialogue and for the hamster wheel of greed, shamelessness and sheer stupidity emanating from in and around the White House after 2016. I tend toward the view that the Trump presidency amounted to a never-ending reality show: aturned into an attention-seeking circus where the stakes never felt quite real with twists you couldn’t quite believe .
There were many, many aesthetic and craft reasons to watch Succession but fundamentally, it was an outlet for a backlog of inescapable, high-information sadness. And maybe, also, some illusion of expertise and control. Here were the meetings, backrooms and palatial suites where deals were minted and power leveraged. The people in them were terrible, but they were also human.
As the writers land the Succession plane, the show has flown ever closer to our timeline. Like many, I had a hard time getting through the third-to-last episode, America Decides, in which a sinister, fascist-leaning Republican named Jeryd Mencken spoils the expected victory by Democrat Daniel Jiménez, with help from a dubiously early call by ATN.
In the end, ATN provides the crucial call for an authoritarian president because one brother wants his team to win and the other is steaming from a betrayal. And that’s it – “We just made a night of good TV. That’s what we’ve done. Nothing happens,” Roman shrugs as the Mencken call reverberates, sounding an awful lot like the nihilistic, dissociative tendency, during the past several years, to view un-processable events as plot twists or episodes, artifice to comment on and react to.
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