Succession: Roy family feud directly impacts election night as Kendall, Roman and Shiv face off

The Roy family lead conservative news network ATN on a controversial election night in the new episode of the Emmy award-winning HBO series Sunday.

The new episode – titled America Decides, the eighth installment in the show’s final season – follows last week’s election party in New York City, which saw confrontations between Kendall Roy (Jeremy Strong) and Lukas Matsson (Alexander Skarsgard), as well as Tom Wambsgans (Matthew Macfadyen) and Shiv Roy (Sarah Snook).

Sunday’s episode focused on the goings-on on the network amid the race between Democratic nominee Daniel Jiménez (Elliot Villar), Republican nominee Jeryd Mencken (Justin Kirk), and Independent nominee Connor Roy (Alan Ruck).

The episode – which takes place within days of the death of Roy patriarch Logan Roy (Brian Cox) – began with Tom and Greg Hirsch (Nicholas Braun) in the ATN office trying to keep up, while Tom is seen with Kendall and other colleagues. in the newsroom.

Greg revealed to Tom that he spent the night partying with Mattson and his team, and asked Tom if he knew that Shiv and Matsson have a business alliance.

While it was announced just before the season started that season 4 would be the last, fans were pretty shocked when Logan Roy was killed off in the third episode.

The shock death came as Logan attempted to complete the merger, which resulted in a brief drop in the company’s share price.

The family managed to get more out of Matsson than they planned…although Kendall has plans to close the deal, while Matsson also gets closer to Shiv.

Successor Jesse Armstrong first confirmed that season 4 will be the end of the show in an extensive interview with The New Yorker, where he was asked why he decided to confirm the final season before it debuted.

“First, we could have said it as soon as I made up my mind, almost as we were writing it, which I think would be weird and perverted,” Armstrong began.

“We could have said it at the end of the season. I kind of like that idea, creatively speaking, because then the audience can just enjoy everything as it comes, without trying to figure things out or perceive things a certain way once they know it’s the final season, he added.

“But the opposite thought is also that we don’t hide the ball very much on the show. I feel a responsibility to the viewing public and I personally wouldn’t like to feel like, ‘Oh, that’s it, guys. That was the end.” I wouldn’t like that in a show. I think I’d like to know it’s coming to an end,” he clarified.

He added, “And there’s a lot of prosaic stuff too, like it might be weird for me and the cast when we do interviews.” It’s pretty definitively the end, so it might be uncomfortable to have to feign about it like a politician for ages. Hopefully the show is against bulls**t, and I wouldn’t like to bulls**** anyone if I talked about it.”