Succession.Photo: HBO
Succession, the Emmy Award-winning HBO series, will be coming to an end after itsupcoming fourth season.
Series creator and showrunner Jesse Armstrong revealed the news in an interview with theNew Yorker, explaining, “There’s a promise in the title ofSuccession. I’ve never thought this could go on forever. The end has always been kind of present in my mind. From season two, I’ve been trying to think: Is it the next one, or the one after that, or is it the one after that?”
“I got together with a few of my fellow-writers before we started the writing of season four, in about November, December, 2021, and I sort of said, ‘Look, I think this maybe should be it. But what do you think?'” Armstrong continued. “And we played out various scenarios: We could do a couple of short seasons, or two more seasons. Or we could go on for ages and turn the show into something rather different, and be a more rangy, freewheeling kind of fun show, where there would be good weeks and bad weeks. Or we could do something a bit more muscular and complete, and go out sort of strong. And that was definitely always my preference.”
Armstrong added: “The ending needs to work on its own merits … I hope that no one ever thinks that we are outstaying our welcome—that we’re going to do a dud season, or be stretching it out. I hope those concerns never occur to people.”
Jeremy Strong and Brian Cox on ‘Succession’.Craig Blankenhorn/HBO
News of the show’s end comes after starJeremy Strong, who plays Kendall Roy, spoke withGQon Feb. 21, where he revealed how he’s jealous of his peers who have worked on multiple projects and didn’t have to focus on one particular show the way he has.
He told the outlet he envies “that freedom to just shoot yourself outof some different cannons. Sometimes Kendall feels like the same cannon over and over again.”
He also looked ahead to the show’s eventual end, saying, “When I was younger, I saw the future in the crosshairs. I don’t feel that anymore. There is a feeling of ‘Now what?’ that I don’t have the answer to.”
Speculation also arose in September 2022 after fellow starBrian Cox, who plays family patriarch Logan Roy, revealed that “no one’s had their contracts renewed” for a fifth season.
“Who knows how long it will go on? We don’t want it to overstay its welcome,” he told the U.K.‘sSunday Timesat the time. “That will not happen with our show.”
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Successionpremiered on HBO in 2018 and follows the Roy family as they prepare for the next phase of their media conglomerate, Waystar RoyCo, amid Logan’s declining health.
The series — which also starsAlan Ruck,Sarah Snook,Kieran Culkin, J. Smith Cameron,Nicholas BraunandMatthew Macfadyen— has released three seasons so far and was renewed for a fourth in October 2021.
A year later, the network released anofficial teaser forSuccessionseason 4, giving viewers a 40-second glimpse at what’s to come in the new season.
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In January 2023, the network releasedanother, slightly longer teaser trailerfor the fourth season, which will comprise of 10 episodes. It revealed that Tom (Macfadyen) and Shiv (Snook)’s marriage might be collateral damage in the fight for company power. Meanwhile, Connor Roy (Ruck) and Willa Ferreya (Justine Lupe) decide to tie the knot.
Over the course of its three seasons,Successionhas been critically acclaimed, winning multipleGolden Globes, Primetime Emmys andSAG Awards.
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Season 4 ofSuccessionwill premiere on March 26 at 9 p.m. ET on HBO, and the first three seasons are currently available to stream on HBO Max.
source: people.com
