He’s the only Roy relation with some direct power, however little it may be. With Greg maintaining a position at Waystar, he becomes the only direct link to the Roy bloodline at the company. Their final moments indicate that the two will continue to work together, so perhaps there is a future where Shiv can still be involved at Waystar. Maintaining their marriage allows Shiv to retain some form of power at Waystar, even if it is not direct. As she and Tom re-form their alliance in the show’s final scenes, Shiv becomes trapped in her marriage, for a divorce would deny her any future connection to the company. In doing this, Shiv maintains a connection to the company, becoming the only Roy still slightly affiliated with it. Of course, the ever-indecisive Roy backs out in the climax, securing her husband as Waystar’s new CEO. As Shiv desperately tries to hold onto power within the family company, she realigns with her brothers to launch a final attack on the Gojo acquisition deal. The finale continued this trend, with Shiv admitting she’d be interested in trying to make the marriage work again - for convenience’s sake of course! But, when Matsson ( Alexander Skarsgård) offers Tom the biggest seat at the Waystar table instead of Shiv, we again see the couple spiral. First mutually agreeing to a divorce, the couple then re-ignited their spark after Logan’s death, before destroying each other, finally having a couple of “real” conversations. The Roy-Wambsgans marriage has been a roller coaster in Succession’s final season. It’s the ultimate defeat for the Roys, who after fighting relentlessly to keep Waystar under a Roy ruling, lost out to their two-faced brother-in-law and husband, whom none of the three would ever have chosen. Nevertheless, it does still keep the company close to the Roy bloodline, as Tom and his estranged wife Shiv seemingly find mutual ground, re-igniting their marriage in some form. So, while Logan may have once sided with Tom, we’ll never know if the media king would have been happy with the new CEO. Always one to keep his cards close to his chest, when Tom asked Logan if he would still continue at Waystar should his marriage crumble for good, Logan simply replied, “If we’re good, we’re good.” It’s a statement that seemed to provide more comfort to Tom than the audience, a clear vague response from Logan, who soon recruited Roman ( Kieran Culkin) as the future of Waystar. Who would have thought in the show’s early days, that bumbling, sad-puppy Tom would emerge victorious as Waystar’s new CEO come its final moments? After his betrayal of the Roy kids in Season 3’s finale, Tom spent a significant amount of time working closely with Logan, however, it’s never clear whether the retiring CEO ever truthfully saw a future with Tom as his successor.
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