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Succession Will End After Season 4

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The Roys are the family we all seem to love to hate (or, perhaps, hate to love), but they were clearly feeling the love during the 2022 Emmys—receiving 25 nods, including a win for best drama series. And there's more dysfunction to come. When the show's third season concluded, HBO had already confirmed that it will return for a fourth chapter in 2023.

"In the 10-episode season four, the sale of media conglomerate Waystar Royco to tech visionary Lukas Matsson moves ever closer," the description of Succession season four reads. "The prospect of this seismic sale provokes existential angst and familial division among the Roys as they anticipate what their lives will look like once the deal is completed. A power struggle ensues as the family weighs up a future where their cultural and political weight is severely curtailed."

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Here, find everything we know so far about season four of Succession.

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Brian Cox said the series "could go on" past season three.

In an interview with The Guardian, Cox, who plays Roy family patriarch, Logan, noted that the series could continue past season 3.

"It really depends on the writers. If they feel they can stoke other stuff out of it… I mean, it is morphing into other areas. It’s becoming much more of a…" Cox said, pausing. "I don’t want to say ‘humanist document’ because Jesse would hate that. But the show has taken on its own life, it’s creating its own life. And that’s a big advantage. So as long as that life is there, and as long as the writers are inspired to do stuff, then it could go on."

However, when the reporter asked whether Logan had to play a part in season four, Cox said that was not exactly necessary.

"No, they can kill me off," he said. "But I think they’d miss me. Originally, I was supposed to die at the end of the first series. But I think they realized that Logan is the centrifugal force of the piece. Everything has to spin off him, and the kids’ vices are all about their father, and relating to their father. Do they love their father, and if so how do they show that love?"

The fourth season will be the show's last.

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Georgia Pritchett, a writer on Succession, and one of the series's executive producers discussed the future of Succession with The Times in June 2021. "I think the maximum would be five seasons, but possibly more like four," she said. "We’re at the end of filming season three, so at this point [creator Jesse Armstrong] is saying only one more. But that happens every time. We’ve got a good end in sight."

In February 2023, Armstrong confirmed Succession will end with season four. He told the New Yorker, "there’s a promise in the title of Succession. I’ve never thought this could go on forever. The end has always been kind of present in my mind. From season two, I’ve been trying to think: Is it the next one, or the one after that, or is it the one after that?"

There's a natural ending: at some point, a new CEO of Waystar Royco will be named, and the show will lose momentum, or at least need a significant change. Armstrong noted this inflection point when speaking with The New Statesman. "There’s going to be a very definite moment when that story is over," Armstrong said. "And it can’t go on too long. I think there’ll be an end for me in this incarnation of the show in…" he paused. "In a bit."

Season 4 will be a "bumpy ride," according to Armstrong.

The creator told Town & Country that the final season will be "a bumpy ride" and there will be "a lot of hard rendering and conflict."Sarah Snook, who plays Shiv, tells T&C that in the upcoming season, the Roy family "gets tested more than it ever has been" and discovers "what the meaning of family is."

Speaking about Logan Roy's children, Brian Cox told Town & Country, "They are wedded to avarice. He can see that, and he knows it’s his creation. He knows that they’re going to fuck it up. He knows that they haven’t got the stuff to do it but they’ll try anyway. And that, again, is what the show is all about: entitlement."

All the major Waystar Royco players are retuning for season 4.

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That includes Brian Cox as Logan Roy, Jeremy Strong as Kendall Roy, Sarah Snook as Shiv Roy, Kieran Culkin as Roman Roy, Alan Ruck as Connor Roy, Matthew Macfadyen as Tom Wambsgans, Nicholas Braun as Greg Hirsch, J. Smith-Cameron as Gerri Kellman, Peter Friedman as Frank Vernon, David Rasche as Karl Muller, Fisher Stevens as Hugo Baker, Hiam Abbass as Marcia Roy, Justine Lupe as Willa Ferreyra, Scott Nicholson as Colin, Zoë Winters as Kerry, and Jeannie Berlin as Cyd Peach.

Alexander Skarsgård is also set to return as Lukas Mattson; Arian Moayed will reprise his role as Stewy Hosseini; Cherry Jones will return as Nan Pierce; and Juliana Canfield will be back as Jess Jordan. Annabelle Dexter-Jones, Karolina Novotney, Justin Kirk, and Stephen Root and Hope Davis will be back as well.

New cast members include Annabeth Gish, Adam Godley, Eili Harboe, and Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson.

Production began in June 2022, and the cast was spotted filming as late as January 2023.

It's set to premiere on March 26, 2023.

A teaser clip from HBO offered a first look at what's to come for the Roys:

In January 2023, the first trailer officially dropped:

We'll update this as soon as we learn more about Succession season 4.

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