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The End of Nepo

I feel like as the series went on, I was really notable that the series resisted giving them some sort of arc that led them to catharsis or any of those things that you traditionally do in drama. Like they started very self-interested characters, you know, potentially brutal betrayals and they only got more so. Yeah, it was a bleak look at human nature. There were no heroes. And what seemed to be missing was genuine love from Logan Roy as a parent. That was almost like a cancer for the character of his children. We all knew the ending was going to leave us empty. But it was a strange feeling."

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