Could This Poem Spoil The Ending of Succession?

While Kendall is usually happy to pretend that that murderous incident never happened. It always invariably comes up again at the end of each season. In season 2’s “This Is Not for Tears,” Kendall brings up the murder to his father again, which is when Logan invokes his “NRPI” or “No Real Person Involved” policy.

Then, in the season 3 finale “All the Bells Say,” Kendall finally comes apart and confesses his sin to his siblings.

If there’s anything we can safely predict about the Succession season 4 finale it’s that the incident at Shiv’s wedding will be mentioned once again. But is that it? This is the series finale after all. The waiter’s death can’t just be mentioned. Consequences must be paid – not in the traditional sense of Kendall facing legal repercussions because he remains well out of the “can ever face legal repercussions” tax bracket – but in the dramatic sense. Something bad will happen to Kendall. To find out exactly what, let’s return to the relevant passage of “Dream Song 29.” The portion of the poem that contains “With Open Eyes” reads:

And there is another thing he has in mind
like a grave Sienese face a thousand years
would fail to blur the still profiled reproach of. Ghastly,
with open eyes, he attends, blind.

“With open eyes, he attends, blind” is quite evocative. This Berryman guy might have a future in poetry. Moreso than even its stark final line, this passage reveals what “Dream Song 29” is really about. Though many of Berryman’s poems are about death, this one isn’t. This is about delusion. And so too is Succession. All of the Roy siblings, but Kendall in particular, are delusional.

As their father cruelly but correctly clocked, these are not serious people. With their father now out of the way, they appear to have forgotten that cold hard fact of life: they’re losers. Why, then, do they seemingly keep winning? As of the end of Succession season 4 episode 7, Roman has fired multiple execs with no apparent professional blowback, Shiv has successfully played both sides to secure her corporate safety, and Kendall is having the time of his life living out his theater kid dreams.

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