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Creator Jesse Armstrong on the Ending of ‘Succession’

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The Balance Between Shiv and Shiv

I love hearing that because there's such a formality to the way in which they hold hands in the back of the car. And when you think about so many royal unions, they're about political expediency or like accumulation of political power. So it does make sense that Shiv has sort of bent the knee and now is kind of a subservient to Tom. She says something to him earlier in the episode about, you know, once you've said the worst things to someone that you're free, that it frees you up a little bit.

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