Succession: Why We Should Have Seen That Season 2 Finale Twist Coming
In the finale, Naomi Pierce offers him one more opportunity to get out. But Kendall declines, citing his father’s love for him. Ultimately, Kendall was trapped in the prison Logan made for him doomed to forever be a doormat or, more tragically as it turns out, shape himself into an imitation of his father.
To get fully inside Kendall’s mindset in the finale it’s useful to look at the inspiration for the episode’s title. “This Is Not For Tears” comes from the John Berryman poem “Dream Song 29.” You canThere sat down, once, a thing on Henry's heartHenry could not make good.And there is another thing he has in mindwould fail to blur the still profiled reproach of. Ghastly,But never did Henry, as he thought he did,He knows: he went over everyone, & nobody's missing.
The line that gives us the title of the episode centers specifically on grief and is meant to echo William Wordsworth’s “Immortality Ode” which ends: “Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.” For Berryman, the subject of his poem—so, the Kendall figure—is suffering from a guilt and grief beyond self-pity. The last part of the poem sees the narrator assuring himself he didn’tmurder anyone—that “nobody’s missing.” Or, as Logan put it in this episode to Kendall: “No real person involved.
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