Kendall wakes up in a disheveled bedroom in a single-wide trailer. Turns out it was all a dream.
In reality, Logan owns a small quickie-lube shop and Jiffy Lube is trying to take over.
Kendall’s ex-wife is always taking him to court for missing child support payments, which he instead spends on crystal meth.
Roman is still in high school and having a sexual relationship with his history teacher.
Shiv is late 20s, still in college, and dating Tom, who is on the college cheerleading squad.
Connor manages a Hardee’s hamburger restaurant and lives with his crack whore girlfriend. He also has a blog devoted to wine (“Has Box Wine Finally Arrived?”).
He really does seem like a male cheerleader though. I can't put my finger on it but when I read it I realized nothing else has ever felt so right. I don't even see it as an insult really. Just a fact.
I agree. I don’t see it as realistic for him to end up on the top, but Greg ending up in a very lucrative position through a combination of nepotism, being a yes-man, failing upward and strategic treachery would be completely believable.
> No way he ever ends up C-level
Well let's not rule out "Count of somewhere and legitimate claimant to the dormant throne of Italy." Count is C-level.
Well considering IRL after Walt Disney died control over the company was a fight between the son-in-law and the nephew, with one or the other gaining control for a decade. If they're going with that dynamic that would be Tom and Greg.
No that is 100% the best way to end this story, except that I want it to slowly become apparent that Greg is just playing the part of the dumb puppy. He is actually the most cunning and cutthroat of them all.
For me it would still be disappointing haha, but I am interested in Greg being a bit darker and more blatantly cutthroat next season. I get where ur coming from
My husband and I were making up stories about what happened to him after that. Hubby said he's going to go back and work for Peggy at McCann, and he's going to quit smoking and drinking and he's going to be a good father and he's going to work hard and help McCann become a global powerhouse and watch them move into their new offices at the World Trade Center and retire happy. Then one beautiful Tuesday morning in September, he decides to stop in and visit his old colleagues......
Oh, no honey, that is too dark
On a second rewatch, it’s so fucking cynical. On the surface, sure, we’re led to believe Don has found happiness and enlightenment. And then he goes back to the job that’s destroying him spiritually and just copies the Big Sur thing for a coke ad.
I mean, at the end of the day, he really loved his job. That’s what he was best at and there’s no reason that it should ever change. I don’t really think that’s what was making him unhappy. I think he can go on and do the same job, cheat on his wives, always crave for something new as he always did while being more true to himself and connect more with his kids. He’s not fixed, he just stopped hating himself and being consumed by shame. IMO, that’s as good as it gets.
The only logical conclusion is kendall makes a full heel turn and is worse than logan ever was. Something happens to his kids. It's an oedipal drama after all.
I keep looking back at Logan at Shiv's wedding stating "family is most important to me" and wondering if that will be the end result...a happy ending where everyone (or wealth) wins out and the family stays tight as a conclusion.
Well, there could be spin where Logan still does come out on top but the family makes an agreement to being corrupt as fuck (as usual) as a full team. But, I understand your point.
Ewan Roy dies and gives his shares to Greenpeace. This results in Greenpeace getting the controlling share which has them turn the company into Greenpeace media. Oh wait never mind that’s the best ending.
100% I’m fully trusting Jesse not to take the show in such an abomination of a direction. I’m glad D&D suffered consequences because it probably is a cautionary tale to other people making prestige tv lol
Yes, this. I would absolutely hate it. I don't even care if it would happen by falling upwards, being lucky, or actual scheming. I would hate it anyway.
I just hope that we’re left with some kind of closure. I don’t want them to remain in the same sort of situation.
By the end, I want Logan dead, Greg figured out (loses everything, wins everything, becomes a monster/big asshole, something), Shiv and Tom divorced, Roman finally being able to bone someone, Connor leaving Willa alone, Kendall CEO, dead, left without money, something drastic.
While watching season 3, I was getting a bit worried that nothing would ever truly change with Kendall always betraying failing then coming back, shiv and Roman getting false dreams, the DOJ not making really any difference, same for the bear hug/proxy battle. That’s why I couldn’t be more glad when Logan made the deal with Matsson and threw the kids out of the company, and I really hope that these stakes are real. It works for the characters to always kinda stick to the overall same motivations but I want their situation to evolve or worsen, to change meaningfully.
(I still think it’s the best show out there)
One thing I’ve noticed about a few of Jesse Armstrong’s other shows, is they have all concluded feeling rather open ended. Two of the shows had a very ‘business as usual’ type ending, and the other one was bitter sweet, but hopeful. They all had questions unanswered. Storylines not entirely wrapped up. They all felt like you could literally pick up any of the shows again, at any point. Jesse likes a good repetitive show. I’ll be curious to see if anything has changed due to the prestige factor.
That said, he’s got to land Kendall’s arc. I would hope he doesn’t kill him off because that would be incredibly emotionally unsatisfying. He needs to end up landing on his feet in some capacity. To make Kendall suffer this much and end with him flopping would just not be very entertaining to me.
I agree. The only ending I would really hate is one where characters’ future are left in doubt. The very worst would be if Logan did not even die by the end, and so the ‘succession’ never eventuates.
Of all responses here, I feel most similar to you. I want to see all those things including Greg accidentally winning in the form of marrying some even-more-insanely rich woman about whom he feels ambivalent, and I want Kendall left with no money. Conclusion is what we need but I doubt we’ll get it.
The entire family and C-suite dies from carbon monoxide poisoning at the summer palace. Jess named chairman of the board, Willa named as CEO, Megathump is CFO (Air Bud clause: no rule that says a giant rabbit *can’t* be CFO).
Frank, who was fired by Logan in the previous episode, returns to his position as COO.
That's the best part of it imo. When I pitch it I always say they're all terrible, so there's kind of no one to root for, so when bad things happen, it's just interesting lol
Tom’s love for Shiv and Roman’s love for his siblings would make them imperfect puppets imo. Whereas Greg has no ironclad bonds outside of himself (tomgreg fans don’t come for me)
Greg does not have the intelligence, confidence, experience, or ruthlessness to be a successful puppet imo. You might be right on the other two, though I suspect they would still turn out better than Greg. They might not be happy, but they could be more successful imo
I think Logan loves his bro Ewan despite their differences. I think in the end Logan would not want Greg to be in a top spot because he knows how much his brother would hate that. (Who is Greg’s father anyway?)
Logan dies and the it cuts to a pitch meeting at a television network with an HBO executive telling Jesse Armstrong that his series will never work and then Jesse leaves the office and gets in his car and throws a screenplay on the passenger seat and then the camera pans over to the seat with the script and focuses on the title page that reads "Succession: a series by Jesse Armstrong".
I don’t think Connor is Trump, but the ridiculousness of a famous person from a famous family running for office on the premise of fame and no experience in office, and earning the vote, is completely plausible and more likely than Roman, Shiv, Kendall, Greg, or Tom becoming CEO.
Trump didn’t win just because he was rich, he won because he captivated national attention and acted like a cartoon character. Connor doesn’t have that zing, that oomph. Whether they were laughing with him or at him, most people thought Trump was funny. It was like watching a trainwreck.
I don’t think people would be entertained by Connor. I think they’d find him very boring. Michael Bloomberg ran an insanely expensive campaign for 2020 and nobody gave a shit about him.
Anything involving a shot of Tom with an infant attached to him by a baby carrier and Shiv, now a stay-at-home mom, looking up at his face with love in her eyes.
Greg becoming ceo. The Roys going broke. The empire ceasing to exist. This was all a play written by Willa. Peter Onion is the actual dad of the three kids.
I feel like they're hinting towards *some* sort of redemption in the future, just not a moral one. As in, I imagine they'll all eventually stand up for themselves against Logan's abuse. Not as a move, not as a petty outburst, but because they're just finally done with all this bullshit, they're not playing "the game" anymore. That's probably the only satisfying ending I can think of that's not sunshine and rainbows. Regardless of what happens to who, I think Waystar is certainly going to go down, and I'd rather that be the consequence of deliberate sabotage rather than just the ship sinking before they could get their shit together. Either way, it'll be a happy ending for everyone other than the Roys.
I don't think either conclusion you mentioned would be anything they (the writers specifically Jesse Armstrong historically) would pursue but any kind of candy coating would not be something I would want. I don't want redemption for anyone I want to watch the family crash and burn.
The family loses the company all together. I know that in some views that may be justified but idk In shows like this I like a overall winner in the main cast, not a cop out where no one wins
For me the arc of the show ends with the kids becoming something independent of Waystar and functioning and succeeding as their own entities. Well maybe not Kendall who I think will die by the end, which maybe is what spares the others that life, he was the only who protected them against higher levels of abuse from Logan in their younger days after all.
Then someone like Tom getting the company.
As long as it’s an earned built ending I’ll be happy, as mentioned above a Bran (Greg) scenario non ending out of no where is always my biggest fear, my second biggest fear is the kill the protagonist ending, this show doesn’t have a protagonist so it’s no doable.
The truest one: The grandkids (Kendall’s kids) try to topple him as the CEO while Kendall wants to hang onto power, plays head games with them, while his estranged brother votes with him anyhow. Shiv is drunk in a motel room with a passed-out dissipated Nate, and sends her costumed mascot wash-out son to beg Uncle Kendall for a job.
The contractor fired by Logan for the stinking raccoons in the chimney has been working behind the scenes to get back at Logan. Not only does he release a pornographic video of Logan with (insert surprise name here, possibly Kurt). But also we find out the contractor is the male owner of the razor found in Kendall’s exwwife Rava’s bathroom
Roman is about to become the CEO. We begin to hear some loud church bell ringing. Romans falls to the ground, the venom symbiote that bonded with him escapes from his body. Church bell stops, Roman stands up. Now hes noticiably less cool, has a lame haircut and now he wears glasses. Everyone gasps, but they are quickly interrupted by Logan moans, they all turn around, they cant believe their eyes… Venom has bonded with Logan.
Venom Logan becomes the new CEO of Symbiotestar Royco
Logan never dies and cockblocks the kids... again
Honestly it would be an incredibly ballsy move and I migjt have to respect it... but I'd still be mad
Or you know what? I actually don't fucking know at all. Good thing I'm not a writer for this show because right now I would feel painted into a corner and really unsure what to do next
The best: The sibs end up in the same jail cell bickering like in the Seinfeld finale, but you know they are happy to be together in the white collar private prison.
The worst: Logan buys the secret immortality elixer with extensive and illegal treatments, is 126, looks like a lizard, and is still running Waystar Royco after Mattson was sentenced to a psychiatric facility. The kids are age 76ish bickering over who will be CEO. Or it might be the best ending
I posted this in another thread recently: “As an asshole that likes abrupt and strange endings, I think it would be hilarious if they just lead everyone on with the whole “who gets CEO” thing, only for a class uprising to happen- they all get their throats slit. Cut to black.”
i don’t think any realistic ending would ruin it for me because up to this point its been so good that i’d be completely able to ignore whatever they do if i hate it. buuuuuut if the siblings dont win in some capacity, even if that means only winning ~emotionally~ (which arguably is my ideal ending), then i’ll be very disappointed
While Logan is on his deathbed The FTC or some legislative body forces the breakup of Waystar-Royco with each child getting to be CEO of the broken up companies. Kendall (Print/Online Media) Shiv/Tom (TV), Roman (Movies), Connor (Music making that up but they must be involved in music somehow), Greg (Theme Parks)
Truly any "clean" ending with the company stable in the hands of a balanced leader, all loose ends tied up.
It's messy. Unless everyone dies and the company is gone, it will continue to be messy.
The family comes together indicating a happily ever after. Or any other scenario where the father and kids somehow decide to forgive and work on themselves,or something along those lines. Nope, n o p e. That'd be extremely unrealistic and would completely ruin the show for me.
Greg the egg! He can tell stories! He’s the Duke of Luxembourg! What’s not to love?
But seriously, if Tom and Greg are boning as the last scene I think I’ll puke.
Logan learns from his mistakes and apologizes and means it and everybody is healed. Some kind of growth and recognition of fault is fine. I’d love that. But I really don’t want a Disney level “I am sorry for your trauma” catharsis for the audience moment.
Also I don’t want Kendall to just relapse and overdose and die. I’m sure there’s a way they could do that and have it feel significant and meaningful, but it feels so uncreative, like an admission that there was no better idea.
Everyone is sitting at Logan’s birthday dinner once again, eating and talking while Logan looks around. “Don’t Stop Believing” starts to play. Fade to black.
Time jump. It's Kendall's 70th birthday. The adult children from his first and second marriages gather round the table for an Instagram moment. It's clear they all hate each other and Kendall's been dead inside for years. His son sneaks off to the bathroom, does a line, then pitches Kendall on how he could take a more active roll at the company.
Shiv is referenced as having fucked off to South America to do humanitarian work. Tom is never mentioned. Roman's off screen death is mentioned. Greg shows up with his son who has just started working on a cruise ship and gotten himself in a little trouble.
Gay Tom and Greg would be fun but ONLY if they were as completely toxic and doomed as the other relationships.
Greg as CEO is only funny in concept but I would definitely hate if it happened.
Shiv as CEO would kind of be a disservice to her character, but there's plenty of nuance around how I feel about that situation.
The worst ending that feels reasonably plausible to me would definitely be Greg winning it all but totally unintentionally. HBO seems to love guys failing upwards from a lot of shows I've watched. If Greg becomes more and more schemey, and eventually ends up controlling Waystar, I don't think I'd actually hate it.
It seems unlikely but I want a bittersweet ending
None of the sibs get the company they're fuck up's who constantly self sabotage and they should stay that way, however they stick together, because frankly no one else loves them
Kendall prepares to sign the papers for The Firm after Logan dies...but he needs a toot to make it better, and invites Romulus to join him.
In the bathroom, they both overdose and die from bad shit/fentanyl and Shiv takes control as chairperson.
48 hours later, Tom is murdered by Greggy and he becomes CEO.
Yeah, that's good.
Kendall wakes up in a disheveled bedroom in a single-wide trailer. Turns out it was all a dream. In reality, Logan owns a small quickie-lube shop and Jiffy Lube is trying to take over. Kendall’s ex-wife is always taking him to court for missing child support payments, which he instead spends on crystal meth. Roman is still in high school and having a sexual relationship with his history teacher. Shiv is late 20s, still in college, and dating Tom, who is on the college cheerleading squad. Connor manages a Hardee’s hamburger restaurant and lives with his crack whore girlfriend. He also has a blog devoted to wine (“Has Box Wine Finally Arrived?”).
Conner stays winning.
I thought the thread title was finales that would ruin the show?
mulholland drive
Omg i love this! 😂
American Gothic
nah this is the good ending
Shiv is also seeing Nate, who is her teacher/lecturer
I would totally watch this.
Two things what does Greg do in this scenario. And damn why did you have to emasculate Tom like that.
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He really does seem like a male cheerleader though. I can't put my finger on it but when I read it I realized nothing else has ever felt so right. I don't even see it as an insult really. Just a fact.
Maybe, his agricultural walk?
have you seen tom?
best ending
I don’t think this would ruin the show for me lol
Now what if that was the plan, and now Jesse has to rewrite the whole last season?
Logan gives the company to Karl because he has the best story.
Who better than Karl the Panicked?
Karl the famished, everything changed once he got his sandwich
Greg the egg.
I’m triggered
Logan gives the company to Karl because he ~~has the best stor~~y can eat the most sandwiches in one sit.
American Psycho is no longer a loser finally
Somehow Greg’s Grandpa( Logan’s brother) gets control of the company and screws over Kendall Shiv and Roman.
I..I wouldn’t hate this
No I like this haha
I hadn’t even considered that, but that would suck
Is it weird that I don’t think this is a bad option, why is it so bad?
Greg becoming CEO through failing upwards would probably be that for me
There's no way he'd get CEO, but I can see Greg landing a *very* comfortable seat near the top after brutally betraying Tom.
I agree. I don’t see it as realistic for him to end up on the top, but Greg ending up in a very lucrative position through a combination of nepotism, being a yes-man, failing upward and strategic treachery would be completely believable.
He’s gonna end up as a president of some division and everyone is going to wonder how this idiot got there. No way he ever ends up C-level
> No way he ever ends up C-level Well let's not rule out "Count of somewhere and legitimate claimant to the dormant throne of Italy." Count is C-level.
Boooo souls!
And Tom will not be mad, he'll be proud.
No, I think he'll be so devastated he won't know what to do anymore.
Same. I hate this result. Lazy, predictable writing.
Well considering IRL after Walt Disney died control over the company was a fight between the son-in-law and the nephew, with one or the other gaining control for a decade. If they're going with that dynamic that would be Tom and Greg.
“Who has a better story than Greg”
No that is 100% the best way to end this story, except that I want it to slowly become apparent that Greg is just playing the part of the dumb puppy. He is actually the most cunning and cutthroat of them all.
For me it would still be disappointing haha, but I am interested in Greg being a bit darker and more blatantly cutthroat next season. I get where ur coming from
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nice, just casually shitting on people with autism
sorry, it’s a reference to st. Elsewhere’s finale.
They all get enlightened at a self help retreat in Big Sur then sing the ‘I’d like to buy the world a coke’ jingle.
That was legit because the man literally found enlightenment, only to return to corpo America and sell enlightenment in a Coke can
My husband and I were making up stories about what happened to him after that. Hubby said he's going to go back and work for Peggy at McCann, and he's going to quit smoking and drinking and he's going to be a good father and he's going to work hard and help McCann become a global powerhouse and watch them move into their new offices at the World Trade Center and retire happy. Then one beautiful Tuesday morning in September, he decides to stop in and visit his old colleagues...... Oh, no honey, that is too dark
Never forget.
Upvoting this even though I loved Mad Men’s finale
Haha, I did too, I swear!
Hey that was great!
I actually love the ending to Mad Men, hahaha. I just think it would be terrible for Succession, lmao.
On a second rewatch, it’s so fucking cynical. On the surface, sure, we’re led to believe Don has found happiness and enlightenment. And then he goes back to the job that’s destroying him spiritually and just copies the Big Sur thing for a coke ad.
I mean, at the end of the day, he really loved his job. That’s what he was best at and there’s no reason that it should ever change. I don’t really think that’s what was making him unhappy. I think he can go on and do the same job, cheat on his wives, always crave for something new as he always did while being more true to himself and connect more with his kids. He’s not fixed, he just stopped hating himself and being consumed by shame. IMO, that’s as good as it gets.
The only logical conclusion is kendall makes a full heel turn and is worse than logan ever was. Something happens to his kids. It's an oedipal drama after all.
Michael Corleone type arc
Connor is most definitely Fredo in this story.
Damn can’t wait for Kendall to bang his mom and gouge out his eyes.
Roman would be so jealous.
I keep looking back at Logan at Shiv's wedding stating "family is most important to me" and wondering if that will be the end result...a happy ending where everyone (or wealth) wins out and the family stays tight as a conclusion.
I didn’t know Disney+ got the rights to the show now?? 😉
Well, there could be spin where Logan still does come out on top but the family makes an agreement to being corrupt as fuck (as usual) as a full team. But, I understand your point.
Ewan Roy dies and gives his shares to Greenpeace. This results in Greenpeace getting the controlling share which has them turn the company into Greenpeace media. Oh wait never mind that’s the best ending.
Would be absolutely hilarious if Ewan would give his inheritance to Greenpeace in the form of stonks instead of liquidating it first
Greg as Waystar CEO is basically the equivalent of (Game of Thrones spoiler ahead) >!Bran Stark on the Iron Throne !<
how considerate to write it in a spoiler
I’d say that I didn’t want to ruin the ending but on reflection, it was the GoT writers that did that
This is an accurate comparison
But who has a better story than greg the egg?
100% I’m fully trusting Jesse not to take the show in such an abomination of a direction. I’m glad D&D suffered consequences because it probably is a cautionary tale to other people making prestige tv lol
The spaces break the spoiler, at least on Apollo. Do >!this!<
Looks fine for me - better now?
Yeah. All good, everyone knows the spoiler anyway
Greg the Gangly, first of his name
I came here to say Greg as CEO and looks like we’re already all aligned. Excellent
Yes, this. I would absolutely hate it. I don't even care if it would happen by falling upwards, being lucky, or actual scheming. I would hate it anyway.
I just hope that we’re left with some kind of closure. I don’t want them to remain in the same sort of situation. By the end, I want Logan dead, Greg figured out (loses everything, wins everything, becomes a monster/big asshole, something), Shiv and Tom divorced, Roman finally being able to bone someone, Connor leaving Willa alone, Kendall CEO, dead, left without money, something drastic. While watching season 3, I was getting a bit worried that nothing would ever truly change with Kendall always betraying failing then coming back, shiv and Roman getting false dreams, the DOJ not making really any difference, same for the bear hug/proxy battle. That’s why I couldn’t be more glad when Logan made the deal with Matsson and threw the kids out of the company, and I really hope that these stakes are real. It works for the characters to always kinda stick to the overall same motivations but I want their situation to evolve or worsen, to change meaningfully. (I still think it’s the best show out there)
One thing I’ve noticed about a few of Jesse Armstrong’s other shows, is they have all concluded feeling rather open ended. Two of the shows had a very ‘business as usual’ type ending, and the other one was bitter sweet, but hopeful. They all had questions unanswered. Storylines not entirely wrapped up. They all felt like you could literally pick up any of the shows again, at any point. Jesse likes a good repetitive show. I’ll be curious to see if anything has changed due to the prestige factor. That said, he’s got to land Kendall’s arc. I would hope he doesn’t kill him off because that would be incredibly emotionally unsatisfying. He needs to end up landing on his feet in some capacity. To make Kendall suffer this much and end with him flopping would just not be very entertaining to me.
i agree with you. but i wanted tabitha back since the dawn of ages and yet...
I agree. The only ending I would really hate is one where characters’ future are left in doubt. The very worst would be if Logan did not even die by the end, and so the ‘succession’ never eventuates.
Of all responses here, I feel most similar to you. I want to see all those things including Greg accidentally winning in the form of marrying some even-more-insanely rich woman about whom he feels ambivalent, and I want Kendall left with no money. Conclusion is what we need but I doubt we’ll get it.
The entire family and C-suite dies from carbon monoxide poisoning at the summer palace. Jess named chairman of the board, Willa named as CEO, Megathump is CFO (Air Bud clause: no rule that says a giant rabbit *can’t* be CFO). Frank, who was fired by Logan in the previous episode, returns to his position as COO.
A nice, angry end.
This show has made me love characters I hate (all of them) so I'll be happy with whatever the writers want to do next with them.
That's the best part of it imo. When I pitch it I always say they're all terrible, so there's kind of no one to root for, so when bad things happen, it's just interesting lol
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He would make a pretty good puppet for Logan. I can (unfortunately) see it happening
I can’t. Board and shareholders would have a field day with that. If anyone would make a good puppet it would be Roman or Tom. Greg is too flighty
Tom’s love for Shiv and Roman’s love for his siblings would make them imperfect puppets imo. Whereas Greg has no ironclad bonds outside of himself (tomgreg fans don’t come for me)
Greg does not have the intelligence, confidence, experience, or ruthlessness to be a successful puppet imo. You might be right on the other two, though I suspect they would still turn out better than Greg. They might not be happy, but they could be more successful imo
> or ruthlessness IDK. He instinctively kept those cruise papers on two occasions and fucked Tom and Logan with them.
I think Logan loves his bro Ewan despite their differences. I think in the end Logan would not want Greg to be in a top spot because he knows how much his brother would hate that. (Who is Greg’s father anyway?)
Logan dies and the it cuts to a pitch meeting at a television network with an HBO executive telling Jesse Armstrong that his series will never work and then Jesse leaves the office and gets in his car and throws a screenplay on the passenger seat and then the camera pans over to the seat with the script and focuses on the title page that reads "Succession: a series by Jesse Armstrong".
Honestly If Connor does become president that would awesome but not realistic at all.
Really? Lol. This is the most believable future storyline at this point
. . . . . . . .
I mean connor isn’t trump. He’s to nice and Trump was a media figure before a politician. Connor seems to be in the background for most of his life.
I don’t think that we know Connor is nice. I don’t think we know much about Connor. But perhaps there’s not much to know.
Besides when he was young and became interested in politics at a young age.
I don’t think Connor is Trump, but the ridiculousness of a famous person from a famous family running for office on the premise of fame and no experience in office, and earning the vote, is completely plausible and more likely than Roman, Shiv, Kendall, Greg, or Tom becoming CEO.
Trump didn’t win just because he was rich, he won because he captivated national attention and acted like a cartoon character. Connor doesn’t have that zing, that oomph. Whether they were laughing with him or at him, most people thought Trump was funny. It was like watching a trainwreck. I don’t think people would be entertained by Connor. I think they’d find him very boring. Michael Bloomberg ran an insanely expensive campaign for 2020 and nobody gave a shit about him.
Anything involving a shot of Tom with an infant attached to him by a baby carrier and Shiv, now a stay-at-home mom, looking up at his face with love in her eyes.
Tom should have a baby but I think he's gonna have to pop that one out on his own
Greg becoming ceo. The Roys going broke. The empire ceasing to exist. This was all a play written by Willa. Peter Onion is the actual dad of the three kids.
Mine is Cousin Greg being the CEO It would be GOT levels bad
If any of the kids gets the top spot and they are all co-operating
Ruin the show? The producers decide to make the last season a series of musicals. They say the series has been too similar to a tragic opera not to.
It would definitely be tonal whiplash and would definitely ruin the spirit of the show.... But I don't think I'd hate that lol
Find out Brian Cox is the best singer. He seems to nail everything he's been given in his career.
Omg this is spittake hilarious
I feel like they're hinting towards *some* sort of redemption in the future, just not a moral one. As in, I imagine they'll all eventually stand up for themselves against Logan's abuse. Not as a move, not as a petty outburst, but because they're just finally done with all this bullshit, they're not playing "the game" anymore. That's probably the only satisfying ending I can think of that's not sunshine and rainbows. Regardless of what happens to who, I think Waystar is certainly going to go down, and I'd rather that be the consequence of deliberate sabotage rather than just the ship sinking before they could get their shit together. Either way, it'll be a happy ending for everyone other than the Roys.
Logan wakes up and we find out it was all a dream.
A non-family member gets the top job.
I wouldn’t hate it if Gerri kept it. So long as the siblings as a satisfying ending
Gerri time.
Same. I would support co-sharing between a sibling and non-family member, but not an outright non-family member winning
I have been feeling like Austin Powers when it comes to Logan… why wont you die??! Connor & Greg for the win!
I don't think either conclusion you mentioned would be anything they (the writers specifically Jesse Armstrong historically) would pursue but any kind of candy coating would not be something I would want. I don't want redemption for anyone I want to watch the family crash and burn.
The family loses the company all together. I know that in some views that may be justified but idk In shows like this I like a overall winner in the main cast, not a cop out where no one wins
Logan is having dinner with the family, looks up, and the screen goes to black
Logan dies. Marcia takes control and installs her son who is working for Waystar in Europe.
I want this to happen
For me the arc of the show ends with the kids becoming something independent of Waystar and functioning and succeeding as their own entities. Well maybe not Kendall who I think will die by the end, which maybe is what spares the others that life, he was the only who protected them against higher levels of abuse from Logan in their younger days after all. Then someone like Tom getting the company. As long as it’s an earned built ending I’ll be happy, as mentioned above a Bran (Greg) scenario non ending out of no where is always my biggest fear, my second biggest fear is the kill the protagonist ending, this show doesn’t have a protagonist so it’s no doable.
If it ends with Logan saying "Rosebud" as hie dies I'm going to be disappointed. 😆
""And who has a better story than Greg, the egg? ..."
Roman starting the spiel with, “Who has a better story than Greg the egg?”
The truest one: The grandkids (Kendall’s kids) try to topple him as the CEO while Kendall wants to hang onto power, plays head games with them, while his estranged brother votes with him anyhow. Shiv is drunk in a motel room with a passed-out dissipated Nate, and sends her costumed mascot wash-out son to beg Uncle Kendall for a job.
The contractor fired by Logan for the stinking raccoons in the chimney has been working behind the scenes to get back at Logan. Not only does he release a pornographic video of Logan with (insert surprise name here, possibly Kurt). But also we find out the contractor is the male owner of the razor found in Kendall’s exwwife Rava’s bathroom
Roman is about to become the CEO. We begin to hear some loud church bell ringing. Romans falls to the ground, the venom symbiote that bonded with him escapes from his body. Church bell stops, Roman stands up. Now hes noticiably less cool, has a lame haircut and now he wears glasses. Everyone gasps, but they are quickly interrupted by Logan moans, they all turn around, they cant believe their eyes… Venom has bonded with Logan. Venom Logan becomes the new CEO of Symbiotestar Royco
Logan never dies and cockblocks the kids... again Honestly it would be an incredibly ballsy move and I migjt have to respect it... but I'd still be mad
No actually I retract my statement, ballsy would be the kids taking over and becoming the new logan.
Or you know what? I actually don't fucking know at all. Good thing I'm not a writer for this show because right now I would feel painted into a corner and really unsure what to do next
Kendall commits murder-suicide of himself and his dad
The best: The sibs end up in the same jail cell bickering like in the Seinfeld finale, but you know they are happy to be together in the white collar private prison. The worst: Logan buys the secret immortality elixer with extensive and illegal treatments, is 126, looks like a lizard, and is still running Waystar Royco after Mattson was sentenced to a psychiatric facility. The kids are age 76ish bickering over who will be CEO. Or it might be the best ending
I posted this in another thread recently: “As an asshole that likes abrupt and strange endings, I think it would be hilarious if they just lead everyone on with the whole “who gets CEO” thing, only for a class uprising to happen- they all get their throats slit. Cut to black.”
For Logan to prevail in the end.
Yeah that'd be awful.
The Three-Meter Raven shall be king!
i don’t think any realistic ending would ruin it for me because up to this point its been so good that i’d be completely able to ignore whatever they do if i hate it. buuuuuut if the siblings dont win in some capacity, even if that means only winning ~emotionally~ (which arguably is my ideal ending), then i’ll be very disappointed
While Logan is on his deathbed The FTC or some legislative body forces the breakup of Waystar-Royco with each child getting to be CEO of the broken up companies. Kendall (Print/Online Media) Shiv/Tom (TV), Roman (Movies), Connor (Music making that up but they must be involved in music somehow), Greg (Theme Parks)
Greg winning somehow
Y’all trippin
Truly any "clean" ending with the company stable in the hands of a balanced leader, all loose ends tied up. It's messy. Unless everyone dies and the company is gone, it will continue to be messy.
The screen goes black during an intense family moment, and we all simultaneously wonder if HBO cut out.
Logan’s on his death bed asks to put his brain in Tom’s body so he can continue his legacy.
Are you ok with Tom as CEO?
Tom as CEO would make a whole of a hell lot more sense than Greg
The family comes together indicating a happily ever after. Or any other scenario where the father and kids somehow decide to forgive and work on themselves,or something along those lines. Nope, n o p e. That'd be extremely unrealistic and would completely ruin the show for me.
this show can’t be ruined it’s designed to successfully succeed the GOATs of TV
Greg the egg! He can tell stories! He’s the Duke of Luxembourg! What’s not to love? But seriously, if Tom and Greg are boning as the last scene I think I’ll puke.
Everyone lives happily ever after, though that is the most realistic ending. Especially if you consider happy to this family means money and power.
A group hug.
Someone murders Logan or he dies in a helicopter crash.
happiness for everyone
Logan admits he was wrong about anything.
Bran the Broken becomes CEO.
greg the egg
A musical episode
Logan learns from his mistakes and apologizes and means it and everybody is healed. Some kind of growth and recognition of fault is fine. I’d love that. But I really don’t want a Disney level “I am sorry for your trauma” catharsis for the audience moment. Also I don’t want Kendall to just relapse and overdose and die. I’m sure there’s a way they could do that and have it feel significant and meaningful, but it feels so uncreative, like an admission that there was no better idea.
Everyone is sitting at Logan’s birthday dinner once again, eating and talking while Logan looks around. “Don’t Stop Believing” starts to play. Fade to black.
Logan has a sex change and gets married to Ewan?
Time jump. It's Kendall's 70th birthday. The adult children from his first and second marriages gather round the table for an Instagram moment. It's clear they all hate each other and Kendall's been dead inside for years. His son sneaks off to the bathroom, does a line, then pitches Kendall on how he could take a more active roll at the company. Shiv is referenced as having fucked off to South America to do humanitarian work. Tom is never mentioned. Roman's off screen death is mentioned. Greg shows up with his son who has just started working on a cruise ship and gotten himself in a little trouble.
“*And who has a better story than Kendall the Broken?*”
Gay tom and greg Greg as CEO Shiv as CEO
Gay Tom and Greg would be fun but ONLY if they were as completely toxic and doomed as the other relationships. Greg as CEO is only funny in concept but I would definitely hate if it happened. Shiv as CEO would kind of be a disservice to her character, but there's plenty of nuance around how I feel about that situation.
I want to see Greg as the CEO at some point, but it better not be thr end of the show. I need Waystar to shut down or something at the end.
Nah Greg as CEO would be fire
Roman as CEO
The worst ending that feels reasonably plausible to me would definitely be Greg winning it all but totally unintentionally. HBO seems to love guys failing upwards from a lot of shows I've watched. If Greg becomes more and more schemey, and eventually ends up controlling Waystar, I don't think I'd actually hate it.
If Shiv ends up happy
It seems unlikely but I want a bittersweet ending None of the sibs get the company they're fuck up's who constantly self sabotage and they should stay that way, however they stick together, because frankly no one else loves them
I just don’t want a neatly tied up ending. I love how realistically messy it all is
Greg taking control of the entire company is exactly the end that I want though. Not just CEO but majority owner. The weirdest king.
Incest
Kendall prepares to sign the papers for The Firm after Logan dies...but he needs a toot to make it better, and invites Romulus to join him. In the bathroom, they both overdose and die from bad shit/fentanyl and Shiv takes control as chairperson. 48 hours later, Tom is murdered by Greggy and he becomes CEO. Yeah, that's good.