![]() ![]() Can a mother retain her sense of self? Will she grow out of her childishness? In Girls, Hannah is forced to surrender her flippancy about money and her promiscuity she matures into someone who faces her problems head on. Motherhood is the most dramatic endgame imaginable for a woman, these shows seem to say. Consider Hannah in Girls, or Rachel in Friends. It’s a well-documented trope in television that female characters in late seasons become unexpectedly pregnant. ![]() When her husband, Tom (Matthew Macfadyen), finally heard the news, sputtering, “Is that even true? Is that a new position or a tactic or what?,” his confusion mirrored my own. But in the episodes that followed, the show hardly acknowledged her impending motherhood. “The journey we went on with the amniocentesis after what the blood test showed us-everything looks healthy.” With these understated words uttered by a doctor over the phone, we learned in Episode 4 of Succession’s final season that Shiv Roy (played beautifully by Sarah Snook) was pregnant. This article contains spoilers through the Season 4 finale of Succession.
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