As the Emmy Awards approach, I'm preemptively annoyed about "Succession." Some writers say that the final hour of a TV series shouldn't carry much weight; it's just one episode. There shouldn't be an obsession with the idea of "sticking the landing." But I think this is ridiculous. The ending is crucial. It's when you lay your cards on the table. A good ending should feel like a culmination; it should be sort of miraculous. You wouldn't read Raymond Carver's "Cathedral" or Alice Munro's "Labor Day Dinner" if the final paragraphs were really, really bad. You wouldn't say, "Ah, well, we should probably hand this writer several National Book Awards, even if he/she failed to stick the landing." No, these two stories are remembered *because of* their endings. Wonderful pieces of writing become sublime in their final lines. I had misgivings about the conclusion of "Succession" because I remembe...