Fans of HBO Max’s hit series Succession have been left scratching their heads over the promotional posters for season four.
Several images from the show featuring the individual characters were released last week ahead of the season premiere on March 27.
Brian Cox, Sarah Snook, Nicholas Braun, Kieran Culkin, Jeremy Strong, Alan Ruck and Matthew Macfadyen stand in front of the reflective windows of a skyscraper alongside the tagline “last season”.
But the posters have left viewers baffled because the characters’ reflections appear to be looking in the wrong direction in an apparent Photoshop glitch.
“That’s not how reflections work,” a fan commented on the Instagram account of streaming platform Binge, which screens Succession in Australia.
Fans of HBO Max’s hit series Succession have been left scratching their heads over the promotional posters for season four. (Pictured: Sarah Snook)
The individual posters are actually cut out of a larger image showing all of the cast members standing side by side as the reflective windows behind them merge into a V shape, featuring patriarch Logan Roy (Cox) of foot in the middle.
But when viewed individually, the characters’ reflections just look off.
Nearly a year and a half after the explosive season three finale, Succession has finally returned for its fourth and final season.
HBO confirmed this month that the fourth season would be its last, with the story likely revealing the fate of the Waystar Royco conglomerate built by Logan Roy.
A series of images from the show featuring the individual characters were released last week ahead of the season premiere on March 27. Brian Cox, Sarah Snook, Nicholas Braun (right), Kieran Culkin, Jeremy Strong (left), Alan Ruck and Matthew Macfadyen stand in front of the reflective windows of a skyscraper alongside the slogan ‘the final season’
The individual posters are actually cut out of a larger image showing all of the cast members standing side by side as the reflective windows behind them merge into a V shape, with patriarch Logan Roy standing in the background. medium, but when viewed individually, the reflections of the characters just look wrong (Pictured: Kieran Culkin)
“That’s not how reflections work,” a fan commented on the Instagram account of streaming platform Binge, which screens Succession in Australia.
Logan’s sons Kendall (Strong), Shiv (Snook), Roman (Culkin) and Connor (Ruck) tried to veto the sale of the company to Lukas Mattson (Alexander Skarsgard), but their plans were thwarted at the last minute when Tom Wambsgans (Macfadyen) alerted Logan to his plans, essentially throwing his own wife Shiv 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,” and the season premiere shows Logan’s children. a great victory over his father.
Nearly a year and a half after the explosive season three finale, Succession has finally returned for its fourth and final season.
While for most of the series the Roy kids have been at odds with each other, the last few episodes of season three found them finally joining forces to stop their father from selling off the family’s media conglomerate.
Little did they know that the black sheep of the Tom family betrayed his own wife Shiv and tipped Logan off to what they were doing, giving him enough to take away their power to block the impending sale.
The final shots of the third season seemed to indicate Shiv realizing her husband betrayed her, though it’s unclear how that will play out in the fourth season.
HBO confirmed this month that the fourth season would be its last, with the story likely revealing the fate of the Waystar Royco conglomerate built by Logan Roy.
Logan’s sons Kendall (Strong), Shiv (Snook), Roman (Culkin) and Connor (Ruck) tried to veto the sale of the company to Lukas Mattson (Alexander Skarsgard, pictured), but their plans were thwarted in the last minute when Tom Wambsgans (Macfadyen) alerted Logan to his plans, essentially throwing his own wife Shiv under the bus.
Succession creator Jesse Armstrong first confirmed that season four would be the show’s finale in a wide-ranging interview with the new yorker in which 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 of it.” I wouldn’t want that in a show. I think I would like to know that it is coming to an end,’ she 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 be upsetting anyone when I was talking about it.”
Early reviews of the fourth and final season of Succession have praised its final version as “energetic, brutal and hilarious”.