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в–€ The guest went into a team challenge, lost and failed to save their teammate. в–€ The guest went into a team challenge, won and saved their teammate from dying. в–€ The guest almost escaped the night but died (?). ItвЂ™s difficult to imagine the show without StrongвЂ™s intense performance.Д«ut showrunner Jesse Armstrong has certainly succeeded in leaving his audience guessing what will happen next.в–€ The guest escaped the night. After the dinner with his dad, Kendall finds himself stuck at the company with no leverage, no ambition and no will to continue on. Kendall has now tried and failed to overthrow his father two separate times.

So it wouldnвЂ™t be a shock if Strong asked to be written off the show or was originally pitched on an intense three-season run on the show with a definitive endpoint.ДЄt this point, the character has arguably completed his dramatic arc. Living as Kendall for years on end seems unpleasant. Kieran Culkin, who plays KendallвЂ™s younger brother Roman, adds: вЂњAfter the first season, said something to me like, вЂIвЂ™m worried that people might think that the show is a comedy.вЂ™ And I said, вЂI think the show is a comedy.вЂ™ He thought I was kidding.вЂќ ItвЂ™s a particularly American disease, I think, this inability to separate yourself off while youвЂ™re doing the job.вЂќ вЂњI worry about the crises he puts himself through in order to prepare,вЂќ he tells the New Yorker. (Sorkin declined.) And Strong has said he isolates himself from the rest of the Succession cast when preparing for scenes, in part because Kendall feels so lonesome.Д«rian Cox, who plays Logan, has expressed concern for StrongвЂ™s wellbeing while inhabiting the character.

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He asked director Aaron Sorkin to spray him (and other actors) with real tear gas on the set of Trial of Chicago Seven. The profile lists several over-the-top moments of Strong trying to embody his charactersвЂ™ misery on set.

Death is the only way for Kendall to escape this toxic dynamic.Д«ut, practically speaking, why would Strong leave the show that won him an Emmy? Well, Strong likes to suffer with his characters. When Kendall proposes leaving the company at dinner, Logan refuses. So far, LoganвЂ™s children have always returned even after dozens of humiliations and betrayals. As LoganвЂ™s ex-wife so bluntly puts it, Logan enjoys kicking the things he loves just to see if theyвЂ™ll come back to him. The father-son duo may have a love-hate relationship, but Logan likes to spar with Kendall. But how would Logan react if Kendall went first? The audience has been waiting for Logan to pass away ever since the very first episode of Succession when it seemed like the Roy patriarch might leave this mortal coil without having named a successor. Kendall is distraught by his fatherвЂ™s paranoia. Logan suspects Kendall has poisoned the food and asks KendallвЂ™s son to taste it for him. Kendall and LoganвЂ™s dinner played like the climax of a Greek tragedy-and the last conversation between two characters before one of them is killed off the show.

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On Twitter, writer Alison Herman pointed out that the shot of Kendall passed out in the pool looks an awful lot like a similar moment in the animated series BoJack Horseman, in which the protagonist, BoJack, falls into his pool after an overdose. Now, Kendall may have finally succumbed to the watery grave that has long awaited him. Though this ought to be a victorious moment for Kendall-heвЂ™s just exposed his fatherвЂ™s culpability in the cruises scandal-the pressure threatens to suffocate him.

Season 3 similarly opens with Kendall suffering a panic attack while lying fully clothed in an empty bathtub. HeвЂ™s hiding from the world and suffering psychologically, barely able to stay afloat. Season 2 begins with a shot of Kendall in a hot tub, fully submerged save for his eyes and nose peaking out over the water. Succession has been peppering the show with disconcerting images of Kendall in or around water ever since. Logan then covers up the incident for his son. Kendall manages to escape, but he doesnвЂ™t save his fellow passenger. In season 1, Kendall gets into a car accident with a caterer at ShivвЂ™s wedding.

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