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Succession Season 4 Episode 10 With Open Eyes Part 2 (Patreon)

Published:
2025-07-29 18:07:55
Edited:
2025-08-06 13:46:30
Imported:
2026-06

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Succession Season 4 Episode 10 With Open Eyes Part 2

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Sikozu

Jessie, thank you for this wonderful journey. It is always such a pleasure to get to rewatch a show with you and get your insight into the characters and their fates. I know you’ve always had more sympathy for Ken—and probably find him more rootable than I do. I just never connected with him that way. By the end, I mostly pitied him, and honestly, he was probably my least favorite of the main characters. For me, the second half of Season 4 really showed why he was never going to win. After Logan died, Ken put on the “I’m the guy” mask, but it felt like imitation—channeling his dad’s coldness without his sharpness. He undercut Roman, sidelined Shiv, and treated winning as a birthright rather than something to earn. Even in little moments—like putting his feet on Logan’s desk—he was playing the part of a king, but it always looked like costume rather than skin. In the boardroom finale, he was desperate—begging, lying, contradicting himself—and it was hard to see him as anything but a man unraveling. The whole “legacy” question made that unraveling even starker. The show deliberately reveled to us that his kids weren’t biologically his—one adopted, the other conceived with a donor. In a family obsessed with bloodlines, that made his claim to succession feel even more fragile. Add to that his constant, tense battle with Rava in S4: she was just trying to shield the kids from the toxic circus, and he seemed more concerned with using them as emotional props than actually parenting. He’d talk about protecting them, but when they needed stability, he was too consumed by his own power games. It felt like he was trying to prove to himself that he was a better father than Logan—while showing the exact same neglect in a different packaging. Shiv’s arc was fascinating, especially with the late addition of her pregnancy (thanks to Sarah Snook’s real-life one). It added personal stakes—she was already frozen out by her brothers, now with a future child to protect. I don’t think she voted for Tom out of love; more that she couldn’t hand the company to Ken after he told her she’d be irrelevant under him. That last hand-touch in the limo was a truce, not a happy ending. Roman might have been my favorite in the back half. He got humiliated, but his breakdown at the funeral was the most honest thing in the season. By the end, drink in hand, he seemed oddly at peace—like he knew he was better off out of the fight. Tom’s arc was pure quiet ruthlessness. Matsson picked him because he was the perfect “pain sponge” and “sin eater”—someone who’d take the heat, absorb the blame, and never challenge the real power. He was ego-free enough to be safe, competent enough to keep things running, and ambitious enough to endure humiliation if it meant survival. Skipping the funeral was such a Logan move—cold, strategic, all business. By the finale, he was exactly what Matsson wanted: a CEO who’d get his hands dirty without complaint. Greg was his ideal shadow. He started as the bumbling outsider, but by S4 he was actively leaking information, betraying alliances, and selling out anyone for a scrap of influence. That “betrayal sticker” Tom slapped on his forehead was perfect—he’s marked, everyone knows he’s a snake, but he’s their snake, and that’s enough to keep him at the table. The finale worked for me because everyone ended up where they belonged: Ken alone by the water, stripped of purpose; Shiv in a cold alliance with Tom; Roman quietly accepting defeat; Tom on the throne as the ultimate survivor; Greg smirking beside him, the loyal jester who knows exactly when to bow. I get why you rooted for Ken—there’s tragedy in him. But for me, that tragedy was the whole point: he didn’t lose because of bad luck, he lost because he could never really win.