Because it really was 'special'
last night, the Roy siblings got send-offs of the loftiest kind. Such were the riches of Shakespearean tropes you could pick any you fancied and make it fit: here was Kendall, taking on Logan’s figurative mantle as a latter-day Lear, cast out into the wilderness and gazing out into the stormy Hudson with his loyal Fool – slash Colin – standing at a discreet distance.
It would be fair to say that Jesse Armstrong’s final episode gave us all the high-stakes drama we might have hoped for, as the scions of the Roy dynasty showed themselves at their most vulnerable and also their most repugnant. But wait – what about the jokes?is a comedy-drama after all.
The Roys’ mother, Lady Caroline Collingwood, has long been the show’s secret comic weapon. I’m not sure if you have to be British to fully appreciate quite how brilliantly she’s written , but her chilly displays of affection and casual cruelty are devastatingly good, and her key role in the final episode was a gift.
To be honest, it did seem somewhat against the run of play that it was to Lady Caroline’s leaky Bahamian retreat that her three children fled for their private showdown. Was her chilliness starting to thaw? Was she drawing the three of them, finally, to her birdlike bosom? Ah, but of course not! She had invited them for dinner for a paltry meal so that Peter and his “absolute whizz” friend Jonathan could pitch their indescribably bleak vision for a “no bells and whistles” care home facility.
To be honest, it might actually have been – by stealth – the darkest moment in a blissfully dark episode in which every character was somehow delivered a satisfactory ending despite none of them , being meaningfully satisfied themselves. And yet there was a moment of light: the Roy kids finally having a modicum of revenge on their mother’s succubus husband in the most slapstick of ways – by Roman licking Peter’s “special cheese”.
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