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Logan Roy died alone in a tiny airplane bathroom fishing his phone out of a toilet.
Others griped that his demise was off-camera.
Understand, this is an almost anti-American idea.
It is what were told to aspire to.
It is how we measure our worth.
The TV landscape alone is filled with near-constant reinforcement.
Succession, too, was about a lifestyle.
But the picture was far darker.
Every single character in the show as well as the cast of hangers-on was filthy, stinking rich.
The series is less aspirational lifestyle than avoidance therapy.
That money allowed their sicknesses to grow.
Connor, too, despite arguably being the most normal of the Roys, also seemed to suffer similarly.
He, like so many superrich men before him, seemed to equate wealth with intelligence and competence.
The miscalculation pushed him to pursue a humiliating crash-and-burn presidential campaign.
And then there was Logan, the personification of the shows dark theme.
He died while jetting off to Europe to close a deal instead of attending his sons wedding.
(Granted, his son was entering a marriage of convenience to a former escort, but still.)
It was a fitting demise.
Death can come for us any of us at any second.
We cannot choose its time or place any more than we can control a celebritys dating life.
Death doesnt care how much is in our bank account or what billion-dollar deal were about to clinch.
Lottery winners regularly become depressed, they get divorced, they commit suicide.
Money cant buy you happiness, andSuccessionwas one of the sharpest and wryest reminders of that age-old axiom.
