The story of the Roy family will end this spring with Season 4.
So says “Succession” creator Jesse Armstrong to Rebecca Mead in the New York, online tonight.
HBO’s premier drama will run just 10 more episodes as the adult Roy children try finally to succeed their father in business.
It’s interesting that Armstrong made the announcement and not HBO, which understandably probably wanted a couple more seasons. “Succession” is their biggest hit drama since “The Sopranos.”
Armstrong is very British about why it’s time to wind things up, but there is undoubtedly a money story lurking in the background. The new people at Warner Bros, aka Warner Discovery, are cancelling shows, laying off employees, and living with constant trouble at CNN. If the “Succession” cast needed to renegotiate pay, David Zaslav likely said “nah.” Just a feeling.
So what will happen to Shiv, Tom, Kendall, Roman, Connor, Cousin Greg et al? Will they beat the old man (Logan Roy played by Brian Cox)? Will Logan die? Will Brian Cox keep doing McDonald’s commercials? We’ll have to wait and see.
“Succession” in three seasons earned its stripes as as a psychological thriller, a mental chess game of the highest order, and the most- talkingest show of all time, beating “Moonlighting” and “Gilmore Girls.” You actually need captions and a Xanax at the end of each episode.
Ten episodes begin on March 26th. The finale will come in June. HBO will weep when this is over. But they always have something new up their sleeves!
