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“With Open Eyes” Part 1 (with Jeremy Strong and Alexander Skarsgård)

HBO's Succession Podcast

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The Doom Loop

I think it's just the release of years of vitriol and animosity and jealousies and envy. Jesse doesn't really believe, I think philosophically, I don't think he believes that people change. And certainly for Kendall, the ending of the series is a doom loop. There's a spike in him in his heart that divides him. He both wants to be his father and doesn't want to be his mother. It's not that dissimilar from the ending of Episode 6 in Season 1,. where he's attempts a coup, makes it to the boardroom, leaves the boardroom having lost, and walks into traffic on Broadway.

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