But, in the end, the best line was delivered by the No.
The final season of “Succession” compressed the phases of history, giving us tragedy and farce in one go. Many of the funniest moments came from a newly empowered, though still piteous, Cousin Greg, who clumsily fired a throng of ATN staffers over Zoom and even found the courage to roast the terrifying Logan Roy. (“Where’s all your kids, Uncle Logan, on your big birthday?” he asks. To which Logan responds, “Where’s your old man? Still sucking cock at the county fair?”) But, in the end, the best line was delivered by the No. 1 Boy himself, Kendall Roy, who was reduced to begging his sister for the C.E.O. job. “I feel like, if I don’t get to do this, I-I-I feel like, that’s it,” he said. “Like I might, I might, like, I might die.” It’s gorgeous, stupid poetry—the pathetic plea that launched a thousand memes.