‘Succession’ Made You Decide What It Was

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [Brand Logo]( endings [Succession Made You Decide What It Was]( “Who will win?” is a question as appealing and empty as Tom and Shiv’s apartment. The much harder one has always been, “What kind of show is this?” Photo: HBO Three seasons after [Kendall drives a car into a river]( and kills a waiter at his sister’s wedding, the hanging sword of Damocles [finally falls](. Shiv, [desperate for a reason to explain]( why she’s not tanking Kendall’s ascension beyond her own selfishness, blurts out the secret. Kendall can’t be the CEO of Waystar Royco because he killed someone. Then two astonishing things follow. First, Kendall says “Which?” and sends his siblings into a tailspin of speculation about what else he might have done. And then, incredibly, Kendall simply says no. It did not happen. It was a story he made up. He was briefly experiencing a break from reality. It was imagined. It was never real. [read more]( Devour pop culture with us. [Subscribe now]( for unlimited access to Vulture and everything New York. The Latest TV Recaps • Below Deck Sailing Yacht: [Chase Must Be Stopped]( • White House Plumbers: [The Patriots to Patsies to Prisoners Pipeline]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Stories We Think You’ll Like [‘I Gotta Go Explain to People What Emo Is’ The punk subgenre wasn’t supposed to go mainstream. Then MTV met Dashboard Confessional.]( [It Was Never Going to Be Shiv Her strongest move in Succession turned out to be the lock on her self-constructed cage.]( [20 of Tim Robinson’s Best (Non-ITYSL) Sketches Don’t think of this as a list of sketches from SNL, the Second City, and elsewhere. It’s more of a “cosmic gumbo.”]( [Anna Delvey Is Targeting a New Scam: Your Ears A single for her podcast, The Anna Delvey Show, is dropping.]( By Justin Curto [What’s Going On With The Idol? Lily-Rose Depp is brainwashed in a new trailer.]( By Charu Sinha and Bethy Squires [Every Melissa McCarthy Movie, Ranked She hasn’t always found material worthy of her talents, but she always tackles it with gusto.]( By Will Leitch and Tim Grierson [Beyoncé Shows Her Love for Tina Turner With ‘River Deep-Mountain High’ Cover “I want you guys to help me sing one of my favorite songs,” she told the crowd.]( By Justin Curto [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Today’s Crossword]( 7-Across, Three Letters: Wicked character who becomes the Tin Man. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Getty Images [Into It With Sam Sanders]( Photo: Buena Vista Tv/Kobal/Shutterstock Christy Carlson Romano was ubiquitous on the Disney Channel in the early aughts, playing Ren Stevens in Even Stevens and starring in Cadet Kelly. She voiced the character of Kim in the iconic animated series Kim Possible. But after the roles stopped coming and the check supply dried up, she started losing money to psychics, struggled with family relationships, and grappled with addiction. Over the past few years, Romano has started revisiting these experiences in and generating content from them on YouTube and elsewhere. She recently launched PodCo, a podcast network focused on rewatching TV series. [On the latest episode of Into It](, Romano explains how she uses these platforms and tactics such as clickbaiting to process her own experiences while drawing attention to the vulnerabilities of child actors today. [Read more from Vulture]( A newsletter of TV and movie recommendations. [Sign up]( to get it every week. [Get the Newsletter]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe]( | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2023, All rights reserved