Succession Season 4 premiere: The Roy family returns for its final season

Nearly a year and a half after the explosive Season 3 finale, Succession is finally back for its fourth and final season.

HBO confirmed earlier this month that the show’s fourth season would be its last, and this season will likely reveal the fate of the Waystar Royco conglomerate that Logan Roy (Brian Cox) built with his family.

Logan’s sons: Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Shiv (Sarah Snook), Roman (Kieran Culkin) and Connor (Alan Ruck) tried to veto the sale of the company to Lukas Mattson (Alexander Skarsgard)… but their plans failed. at the last minute, when Tom Wambsgans (Matthew Macfadyen) alerted Logan to his plans… essentially throwing his own wife under the bus.

While all of the children had the power to veto an impending sale, with Tom’s notice, Logan was able to remove his veto power with a last-minute deal with his ex Caroline Collingwood (Harriet Walter).

This season will focus on the completion of the Waystar Royco sale and how it “causes existential angst and family division among the Roys as they anticipate what their lives will be like once the deal is complete.”

Lukas: Logan’s sons – Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Shiv (Sarah Snook), Roman (Kieran Culkin) and Connor (Alan Ruck) tried to veto the sale of the company to Lukas Mattson (Alexander Skarsgard)… but their plans they were thwarted at the last minute, when Tom Wambsgans (Matthew Macfadyen) alerted Logan to his plans… essentially throwing his own wife under the bus.

The season 4 premiere opens with Logan at his birthday party, greeting various guests.

Meanwhile, Kendall visits Roman, who is on a business video call about his new company, ‘The Hundred’, which Kendall describes as, ‘Substack meets Masterclass, meets The Economist, meets The New Yorker’ .

Shiv arrives as Roman asks where he’s been, adding, “We heard you’ve been talking to Jimenez’s transition team.”

She confirms: ‘Well, I’ve talked to them, but it’s because I’m helping them, as you know. Okay, so you… are you talking?

Shiv adds: ‘No. I returned a call. They want to, you know, talk talk. They haven’t won the election, and they may not, and Dad may not sell, and you two could post bail.

Kendall adds that Logan is “two days away from the sale,” but Shiv isn’t sure if Logan will sell.

Deal: This season will focus on the completion of the Waystar Royco sale and how it “causes existential angst and family division among the Roys as they anticipate what their lives will be like once the deal is complete.”

While, for most of the series, the Roy kids have been at odds with each other, the last few episodes of season 3 found them finally joining forces to stop their father Logan from selling off the family’s media conglomerate.

Little did they know that the black sheep of the family Tom Wambsgans (Matthew McFadyen) betrayed his own wife Shiv and gave Logan a heads up about what they were up to, giving him enough to disempower them to block the impending sale.

The final shots of season 3 seemed to indicate Shiv realizing her husband betrayed her, though it’s unclear how that will play out in season 4.

Succession creator Jesse Armstrong first confirmed Season 4 will be the show’s finale in a wide-ranging interview with the new yorkerwhere he was asked why he decided to confirm the final season before it debuted.

“One, we could have said it as soon as I decided, almost when we were writing it, which I think would be weird and wicked,” Armstrong began.

We could have said it at the end of the season. I quite 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 last season,” he added.

“But, also, the countervailing thought is that we don’t hide the ball a lot on the show. I feel a responsibility to the audience, and I personally wouldn’t like the feeling of, “Oh, that’s it, guys. That was the end.” I wouldn’t want that in a show. I think I would like to know that it is coming to an end,’ he clarified.

He added, “And, also, there’s a lot of mundane stuff, like it might be weird for me and the cast while we’re doing interviews.” It’s definitely the end game, so it can be awkward having to slack off like a politician for a long time about it. Hopefully the show is against bullshit, and I wouldn’t want to upset anyone when I was talking about it.

Children: While, for most of the series, the Roy children have been at odds with each other, the last few episodes of Season 3 found them finally joining forces to stop their father Logan from selling off the family’s media conglomerate.