‘Succession’ Was Special Because of Its Relationship to Its Audience

Just like his character Roman Roy on Succession, Kieran Culkin has been struggling lately to cope with the finality of a giant goodbye. “I knew this wasn’t the kind of show that could keep going and going,” Culkin told film director Taika Waititi recently, in a celeb-on-celeb conversation arranged by Interview magazine, but “I always thought five seasons. It was just a number I had in my head.” (This weekend, Succession will instead come to an end following Season 4.) …