'Succession' Season 4: Goodbye to favourite TV family in shocking, superior final season
Brian Cox, Kieran Culkin, Jeremy Strong, Sarah Snook, Nicholas Braun, Alan Ruck and Matthew Macfadyen lead another knockout season of the HBO hit
The Succession Season 4 premiere (March 26 at 9:00 p.m. on Crave in Canada, HBO and HBO Max in the U.S.) is just days away and the first four episodes of the season will make you want to channel Logan Roy (Brian Cox) and selfishly say "f-ck off" to creator and showrunner Jesse Armstrong, for only giving us 10 more episodes of the show.
But all good things must come to an end, ideally while they're still good.
Starring a great ensemble cast including Brian Cox, Kieran Culkin, Jeremy Strong, Sarah Snook, Nicholas Braun, Alan Ruck and Matthew Macfadyen, if you're thinking the final season may not pack as much of a punch as previous ones, you're very wrong.
We've been completely hooked by Succession, watching these nasty, deceptive characters sling hysterical insults at each other for three seasons. Those elements very much still remain in Season 4, we just know there's some sort of endgame now.
What happened in Season 3 of 'Succession' and what's coming in Season 4?
Season 3 ended with Shiv (Snook), Kendall (Strong) and Roman (Culkin) trying to stop the merger between Waystar Royco and Lukas Matsson's (Alexander Skarsgård) GoJo. But the coup attempt, which hinged on a clause in their mother's divorce settlement, failed after Tom alerted Logan to his children's strategy. Greg (Braun), who made a few flips in his alliances throughout the series, ultimately decided to join Tom (Macfadyen), in support of Logan, thwarting his cousins' plans. Of course, that betrayal also left Succession fans with a lot of questions about the longevity of Tom and Shiv's marriage, and if Shiv, Kendall and Roman can actually secure any power.
When it comes to Season 4, the sale of Waystar Royco to Matsson is even closer, creating a massive power struggle between the Roys. While we don't want to spoil anything about the upcoming season, we will say that it begins with Logan's birthday party, amid a cluster of high stakes negotiations. Generally speaking, we'll also tease that Succession takes a bit of a tense, slow burn approach to its storytelling to start the season.
The four episodes made available ahead of the season premiere exemplify damn good, no bullsh-t TV. The previous three seasons were often praised for being dynamic and captivating, mixing tense moment with hysterical comedy, and Season 4 takes those shifts to even greater extremes. It's dark comedy at its finest.
Season 4 is not only emotional for the fans who are sad to see Succession come to an end, but even in just the first four episodes, we see the main cast of characters having to be more emotional and vulnerable. That being said, Succession is still ferociously funny and the show's stars give us some of their most impressive, and hysterical, scenes to date.
Not only do we anticipate the rest of the Season 4 of Succession to be explosive, watching this incredibly wealthy family's power struggle will remain a high point of pop culture history.
