Why the Succession ending worked – according to the experts

Mark Borkowski, PR guru and author of The Fame Formula

Whilst Succession’s finale was beautifully unexpected and wonderfully over the top in its drama, it wasn’t that far from the truth at any point. In the real world, Logan would have destroyed them all, and that’s really what happened. It’s very difficult for generations to follow the template of the person who created that success. Those driven founders have given so much of their lives to that success they have not invested in their family. 

There’s a moment when the siblings head back to divvy up the spoils of Logan’s flat when you see a video of Logan surrounded by his friends singing songs, being his truest self. Only Connor was there, the others had never seen him like that. Whatever he said to them, they didn’t know him, and he didn’t know them. He clearly told them each what they wanted to hear. 

I have worked with one high net worth family where the father couldn’t control the son that way and he went off to found a business that became more successful than his father’s. The father then started spending money to work against the son, trying to destroy him with an expensive media campaign. Roman summed it up – “we’re all s—”. There was no succession plan. Those sorts of men should never be fathers. It is the story of a damaged family where there is no heart.

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