Tom and Greg Were the Only ‘Succession’ Couple Worth Rooting For

__Spoilers for the sequence finale of __Succession comply with.**

Succession was many issues, but it surely was not a very sentimental present. Any romantic relationship was additionally principally a enterprise transaction. Connor and Willa’s wedding, for instance, was bizarrely candy, however solely got here after she admitted that she was marrying him for the cash. Shiv and Tom’s marriage, by the tip, was so shatteringly poisonous that she might barely maintain his hand when he provided it to her, her palm eerily hovering above his. Roman could have genuinely felt for Gerri, however he confirmed that by sending her dick pics and firing her when she challenged his authority. Kendall’s solely obsession was with himself. In fact, the Roy children grew to become this manner by the hands of the king of depressing intimacy: Logan was an unrepentant philanderer, who both had his ex-wives dedicated to psychological establishments or paid them off so they might take a long time lengthy purchasing sprees.

However the series finale proved Succession had one pure love story: The [semi] platonic connection between Tom Wambsgans and Gregory Hirsch.

From their preliminary interactions at Logan’s birthday celebration within the pilot, there was a delightfully fucked up spark between Tom and Greg, current someplace between bullying and sexual stress. (A flame the fanbase was happy to stoke.) “Friends, sure?” Tom says after brutally teasing Greg on their solution to the household softball sport. “Would you kiss me? Would you? If I requested you to? If I instructed you to?” He then tells Greg he is joking, however was he actually? All through your complete sequence it at all times appeared like these two have been on the verge of constructing out, whether or not they have been hurling water bottles at one another or being (very tall) sexy freaks in alliance.

And but, for a second, it seemed like creator Jesse Armstrong would lastly orchestrate a everlasting rift between the self-appointed “Disgusting Brothers.” After Greg finds out that Lukas Matsson is pushing Shiv out as CEO of the newly mixed Waystar and GoJo (however, crucially, not that Tom is his new decide), he suggestions off Kendall, pondering that aligning himself with the Roy youngsters is the higher play. Tom is livid, taking him into the toilet at Logan’s condo, and slapping him, a blow-up that someway felt extra violent than the time Tom destroyed Greg’s provide closet of an workplace.

Greg’s plan backfires for him when Shiv revolts leaving the trio of unserious folks out of a job and Tom a minimum of nominally on prime. (He primarily acquiesces to being a puppet for Matsson, however he was at all times going to be a puppet regardless.)

When Greg approaches Tom with a bashful “congrats” post-coronation, Tom performs for a second like he’ll take revenge for the betrayal with false coldness. “You’re a fucking piece of shit,” Tom says, taking a protracted pause. “However I acquired you.” He takes one of many stickers that Connor handed out for relations to assert objects in Logan’s condo and locations it on Greg’s head.