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'Succession' creator Jesse Armstrong is ready to talk about the series finale : NPR

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Who would succeed Logan Roy? Succession creator Jesse Armstrong says he didn't know the ending of the series when they made the pilot. "Early, early, I had a sense that the ending would be the dissolution of this enterprise that we follow ... " he says. "And then other things started to come into focus more slowly." Above, Jeremy Strong, left, as Kendall Roy, and Brian Cox as Logan Roy. The following interview includes plenty of spoilers for the series finale of Succession. The much-anticipated series finale of HBO's Succession answered one big question — who would succeed media mogul patriarch Logan Roy — but we still have more: Did the show creator know the end at the beginning? Why didn't any of the Roy children wind up as CEO of the family conglomerate Waystar Royco? Was Kendall considering jumping into the river at the end? Why was the presidential election left unresolved? And why was Logan in the bathroom in his first and last scenes? Jesse Armstrong is the show's creator, showr

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