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Shiv’s Future After Succession Series Finale Detailed By Sarah Snook: “She’s About To Slide Down”-TGN

Summary

  • Shiv’s future after the Succession series finale looks bleak as she faces huge life changes and the loss of power within the Roy family.

  • However, Shiv still has an advantage over her brothers as she still has a connection to Waystar Royco through her husband Tom.

  • Shiv may try to regain power alongside Tom and seek revenge against Lukas Matsson, the person responsible for her loss of power.

Sarah Snook details Shiv’s future after the Succession series finale. Following an acclaimed four-season HBO run, Succession took its final bow back in April, wrapping up the saga of the Roy family in dramatic fashion. The highly-rated finale saw the three Roy siblings – Shiv, Kendall and Roman – at dark places in their lives after losing control of their late father Logan’s worldwide media empire, leaving fans wondering what the future might hold for the trio.

The Succession finale indeed seemed to promise dark futures for all the Roy kids, and for her part, Shiv actor Snook thinks her character is in for a particularly bleak turn of fortunes. Speaking to Variety prior to the ongoing actors strike, Snook addressed Shiv’s enigmatic final moments on the show, when she was seen sharing an awkward hand-hold with husband and new CEO Tom, and what that moment means for the power dynamic between the two. She also discussed how things might play out for a pregnant Shiv as she deals with motherhood. Check out what Snook said in the space below:

I would say (Shiv and Tom are) equal — with Shiv below, if anything, to be honest. He would go into work the next day, and she would have to be dancing on outer rim. Friends of mine have been like, “So what do you think would happen to Shiv after this?” Shiv is about to have a baby, all of this has gone down, she’s sort of thrown back into a world with her husband that wasn’t a great situation beforehand. But I think the baby thing is really about to hit in a way that is inescapable. And she’s probably someone who would go into quite a deep postpartum depression, and quite a difficult next 12 months, I think. … Whatever fight that she has, in that moment, they are equal. But she’s about to slide down, I think, pretty rapidly.

Shiv Could Still Win Out Over Her Siblings, But She’ll Need Tom

Shiv’s dream throughout the entirety of Succession was to win out over her siblings and be named CEO of Waystar Royco, and when she lost that chance, her final move was to torpedo her brother Kendall’s CEO candidacy, leaving her husband Tom holding the big chair. Shiv’s immediate future after the events of the finale may look bleak, as she faces huge life changes, but it may still be in her power to ultimately win out over Roman and Kendall.

Though Shiv is not the CEO at the end of Succession, she has one huge advantage over her brothers: she still has an in at Waystar Royco, through the very husband she was seen riding away with in the finale’s last moments. Contrast this with Kendall and Roman, who at episode’s end both seem completely out of the picture, and completely lost as human beings. Much of course depends on Tom’s willingness to work with his wife, with whom he has a very tempestuous relationship. There’s also the question of how much actual power Tom has as CEO, given that Lukas Matsson really runs the company after the merger with GoJo. If being a mother doesn’t give Shiv a true purpose in life post Succession-finale, maybe she could find it trying to worm her way back into power alongside Tom, while gaining a measure of revenge against Matsson for leaving her out in the cold.

Source: Variety