There may be little to like about the spoiled, flawed, greedy Roy family but once you’ve met them, it is hard to let them go. Their travails have entertained us now for 29 episodes, however, and let them go we must.
Here is what we know about Succession’s fourth and final season.
ONE
The new season has 10 episodes, the first of which hits our screens in the UK on March 27.
TWO
We get to see a lot more of Alexander Skarsgard, who returns as Lukas Matsson, the sinister but super-hot tech titan poised to acquire Waystar RoyCo.
THREE
The show’s creator Jesse Armstrong is gutted it’s all done and dusted. He told The New Yorker: ‘I feel sad. I have the circus-has-left-town feeling that everyone gets who works on a production that’s good.’
FOUR
Filming for the fourth season took place in New York, LA and Norway. As producer Scott Ferguson told Variety magazine: ‘Norway is a glorious, natural setting. It immediately seemed like a perfect place for a family gathering in the series. We studied different countries, but we realised Norway just has this exceptional landscape – like nowhere else in the world.’
FIVE
Cousin Greg actor, Nicholas Braun, has said: ‘The ending is fire.’ He, too, has strong feelings about the wrapping up of the show, saying: ‘I was sad as hell on my last day [of filming]. We’ve been doing it for more than six years. It’s the best job I ever had in my career. The show changed my life. I love it.’
SIX
The award-winning composer Nicholas Britell, who wrote Succession’s unforgettable title music and the score for the whole series, is back in season four with his ingenious mix of hip hop and classical music.
SEVEN
Succession’s director Mark Mylod is pretty sure we are going to love the new season. Back in November, he told Variety magazine: ‘I’ll tell you about my experience with season four so far. We’re a good chunk into shooting it, and I had the same experience after season two, as well as with season three, where it was really well received. I and the whole team go into the next season just so paranoid, trepidatious about not wanting the bar to lower.
‘I feel really good about what we’re shooting. That anxiety is gone from my shoulders, because I’m looking at the early cuts as we’re working through in post-production and I think we up the bar.’
EIGHT
The Guardian says: ‘The show is so satisfying to watch, so casually masterful. The cinematography and score are biting and beautiful. The writing nails an extraordinary range of tones, each series commencing with a knockabout energy that tightens into tragedy by its close.’ We do not know what that tragedy will look like at the end of season four. Will Logan make it? Will Kendall? What about Tom and Shiv’s marriage? Into whose hands will Waystar RoyCo have fallen? But we do know it will have us gripped.
Succession is available from 26 March on HBO. Watch it here.
By Becky Ladenburg
March 2023
