Comment: This article contains spoilers from the series finale of “Succession”.
“This show has always been a tragedy,” “Succession” director Mark Mylod said in a segment that aired Sunday night after the series finale of the Emmy-winning HBO series.
Mylod, who directed 16 episodes of the series, called the finale “absolutely traumatic”, as Roy literally went to the beat before completely losing control of his father’s company.
He praised series creator Jesse Armstrong, saying, “Jesse sticks the landing with this climax between the three siblings,” referring to the brutal scene where Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Roman (Kieran Culkin) and Shiv (Sarah Snook) freaked out. Physically and verbally on the decision to sell the company.
“Finally breaking the bar to expose that horrible, horrible truth so easily put on by Roman,” he said of the scene in which Roman declares, “We’re bull-t. We’re nothing.” Are.
Added Myllod, “It was such a heartbreaking moment. And yet, so inevitable. And that again, good tragedy must be necessary, right? Absolutely painful.”
He admitted that there was “a strange kind of emotional tension” during the shooting of the final episode, which was partly filmed in Barbados.
“Her counterpoint was lovely, symbolic food fit for a king. Captured that emotion or innocence again, kids being kids, regardless of their income. Everything seemed possible,” he said of Kendall, Roman and Shiva. said about the beach playful scenes when they were on the same side.
He added, “And yet… my sense of the show has always been that it’s a tragedy. And that’s why every moment of this kind of hope is so poignant, because you’re just waiting for that [other] To wait for the shoe to drop and their essential nature to be exposed and your heart broken all over again.
All the episodes of “Succession” are now streaming on Max.
