‘Succession’ will end with its fourth season

Waystar Royco’s headcount cuts are coming: Jesse Armstrong announced it ‘Succession’ will not return after its fourth season, which airs March 26 on HBO. This will end one of the best series on the current scene, a drama of betrayals and first world problems within a dysfunctional family that owns an empire of audiovisual media and entertainment companies. Its creator announced the (bad) news to The New Yorker, where he also admitted that accepting it was time to finish was “a bit of torture”: “Who knows the psychological reasons, but the creative ones were that I find it really helpful not to drag out the final decision for years. You know, there’s a promise in the title, the succession. I never thought it could go on forever. The ending is been on my mind ever since season two, I tried to think, ‘Is this next, or the one after, or is it the one after?’

The fourth (and final) season of “Succession” begins after Logan family patriarch Roy (Brian Cox) betrays all of his adult children, including Siobhan (Sarah Snook), with the help of Tom (Matthew Macfadyen). Waystar Royco will be sold to technology visionary Lukas Matsson (Alexander Skarsgård), which causes existential angst in Kendall (Jeremy Strong) and familial division among the Roys, who anticipate what their lives will be like once the deal is done. The new episodes promise one, or rather another, struggle for power as the family faces a future in which its cultural and political weight will be greatly reduced.

The main cast is completed by Kieran Culkin as Roman Roy, Nicholas Braun as Greg Hirsch, Peter Friedman, Hiam Abbass, Alan Ruck as Connor Roy, J. Smith-Cameron, Justine Lupe, David Rasche and Fisher Stevens. Also, in this new season the cast is joined by Annabeth Gish, Adam Godley, Eili Harboe and Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson.

a difficult decision

While finishing a series on top is guaranteed to be remembered by audiences, it’s never an easy decision to finish something that’s going well, that works, that people like, and that continues to have huge potential 4 years after it premiered, so that Armstrong acknowledges that he genuinely felt conflicted: “I feel sad and have the feeling that the circus has left the city, because everyone understands that they are working on a production that is good, and this one in particular more so. I guess I’ll be a bit lonely, wandering the streets of London depressed and wondering, “What the hell have I done?” I’ll probably call you in about six months and ask if people are ready for us to come back.”

And why tell it just before the season starts airing? “We could have said that as soon as I decided, almost when we were writing it, which I think would be weird and evil.”Armstrong said, “We could have said that at the end of the season. I really like that idea, creatively, because then the audience can enjoy everything as it comes, without trying to figure things out or perceive things a certain way once they know it’s the season.” . ending. But, also, the thought that we don’t play hide and seek much in the series is against it. I feel a responsibility with the audience and I personally wouldn’t walk away feeling like, “Oh, that’s right, folks. That was the end.” I wouldn’t want it in a series. I think I’d like to know it’s going to end.”. Will Ferrell and Adam McKay are the executive producers of ‘Succession’, which will air its final 10 episodes on HBO Max every Sunday between March 26 and May 29, when we finally say goodbye to the Roys in full.