Succession has won 13 Emmys, 5 Golden Globes and 34 (!) other prestigious awards for its first three seasons and every one of them is well deserved. Showrunner Jesse Armstrong’s HBO drama is some of the best you can stream right now.
Since March 27, 2023 is on Sky / WOW * Season 4 of the series masterpiece about media mogul Logan Roy (Brian Cox), who lets his children fight to succeed the Waystar Royco family empire. The only bad news is that season four will also be the last. I give a glimpse of what to expect in the brilliant new episodes – and why the season finale will break my heart.
Warning, there are spoilers for the end of Succession season 3, but I won’t reveal any details about season 4 that will spoil the new episodes for you.
Succession Season 4 Episode 1: Game of Thrones is nothing compared to these awesome and fucked up family dynamics
At the end of Season 3, Logan decides to sell Waystar Royco to tech billionaire Lukas Matsson (Alexander Skarsgård). Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Shiv (Sarah Snook) and Roman (Kieran Culkin) plan a coup, but it fails spectacularly. Shiv’s husband Tom Wambsgans (Matthew Macfadyen) exposes the siblings. Instead of taking over the management of the media empire, the three are now completely on the outside.
Episode 1 of Season 4 (“The Munsters”) picks up some time later and shows the siblings trying to start a new business. To carve out her own success, as Logan put it. But of course the Roy clan can’t get rid of each other completely and a little later they are back in open warfare. The camps are clearly distributed: On the one hand, Logan, Tom, cousin Greg (Nicholas Braun) and Logan’s eldest son Connor (Alan Ruck), who is still clinging to his presidential campaign. On the other hand, Kendall, Shiv and Roman – who don’t seem to trust themselves one hundred percent.
Watch the long trailer of Succession Season 4 here:
Succession – S04 Trailer (English) HD
Where Game of Thrones told of great battles between feuding families and betraying one’s own blood was the scandalous exception, Sucession is still a family minefield. Everything is possible and the complicated and deeply flawed characters are not transparent anyway. Not even cousin Greg, who makes another wonderfully idiotic misstep right into episode 1 to impress his nemesis/best friend Tom.
It’s this complexity and unpredictability that makes the Roy’s conflicts so exciting. In addition, Succession also finds moments in season 4 that are really touching in their vulnerability. First and foremost between Shiv and Tom, whose marriage seems to be at an end, but who together are more than the ice-cold strategist and the heartbroken guy who doesn’t want to be pushed around any longer.
The worst thing about Season 4 of Succession is that it ends the best series of the last 10 years
It might sound like an exaggeration to say that, but I think it’s true: there is no other series that is as good as Succession. At least not in the last 10 years. There are good series, of course. We present many of them to you here on Moviepilot. But Succession creates the impossible: Arousing compassion for the inner workings of people who actually have far too much money to be creatively insulted in meeting rooms.
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From left to right: Shiv, Roman and Kendall want to overthrow their father Logan
Succession’s dialogue is battle rap. The billionaire Roys and their privileged environment are so far removed from my reality that the series could also take place on another planet. And yet I feel every disappointment, every relapse into childlike behavior towards the horrible parents, every physically unbearable moment of foreign shame. Whether Kendall is desperate for his siblings’ love, or Roman has finally managed to impress his father – only to accidentally send him a photo of his penis.
Because Succession isn’t just about terrible people doing terrible things. It’s about trauma and it’s written and acted in such a humane way that it not only feels incredibly real, but it hurts like hell. Maybe it’s masochistic, but I don’t want this to end after four seasons.
There is no series that the Logan Roy big hole in my heart will be able to fill when the series finale airs in a few weeks. Unless, of course, HBO is giving fans what many have been asking for forever: a spinoff starring Tom Wambsgans and Greg Hirsch as Bonnie and Clyde, who race to freedom in a convertible, holding hands while Waystar Royco bursts into flames behind them.
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