Succession

Sarah Snook Kieran Culkin and Jeremy Strong in “Succession.” In previous seasons, Roy family relationships felt utterly transactional, but now the characters ...

Nothing’s the same as it was.” He asks his security pal whether he thinks there’s something after “all this.” The security pal says that he doesn’t know, and then Logan lands one of my favorite lines of the show: “That’s it. With the announcement that the series was wrapping, “Succession” regained the opportunity that it squandered in the first season. But together they form a market.” From there, Logan unspools a meditation that reveals the extent to which market-mindedness has become a world view that he cannot escape, and Brian Cox delivers one of the finest bits of television acting I’ve seen in a while. (“Substack meets MasterClass meets The Economist meets The New Yorker,” Kendall explains.) The siblings’ exchanges are, as always, delightfully barbed and a bit puerile. Each season ended with Logan repelling some challenge from his kids, and the next opened with some combination of kids scheming to oust the old man and disrupt the nervy truce established at the end of the previous one. [Jesse Armstrong on the End of “Succession”](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/the-end-of-succession-is-near) Shiv (Sarah Snook), the only daughter and the family’s lone “liberal,” is ambitious and savvy but ultimately lacks the business experience to make a real run for the top job. Yet in the end the season landed back where it began, with Logan holding the reins and his children scrambling and scheming. Equally great were the Roy family conferences in Season 2, when Kendall was brought back into the family fold by way of a public flogging and then was later set up to take the fall for the coverup of sexual abuse in the company’s cruises division. I’d found very little pleasure in it, but people would often tell me that the lack of pleasure was the point—that “Succession” was a satire of the vapidity and moral corruption of the very rich, and that I probably just didn’t get the dry humor and cutting wit on display. [Jeremy Strong](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/12/13/on-succession-jeremy-strong-doesnt-get-the-joke)), the eldest son from Logan’s second marriage, has been groomed to take over but has been perpetually sidelined by his father’s oppressive parenting and by his own struggles with substance abuse. There is vast variation within this format, of course, from the purely episodic nature of “C.S.I.” to the season-long arcs that defined the middle period of “Grey’s Anatomy.” (There are exceptions to the rule, too, such as “

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In its final season, HBO's huge hit 'Succession' hasn't lost its bite - or taste for blisteringly funny family-feud chaos.

[Operation Mincemeat](https://concreteplayground.com/sydney/event/operation-mincemeat-3)) playing middleman in a crucial deal, and when cousin Greg's (Nicholas Braun, [Zola](https://concreteplayground.com/brisbane/event/zola-3)) love life taints the festivities. [Succession](https://concreteplayground.com/brisbane/arts-entertainment/film-tv/succession-renewed-season-four). [starts streaming from Monday, March 27](https://concreteplayground.com/brisbane/arts-entertainment/film-tv/succession-season-four-teaser-and-release-date) Down Under (including via Foxtel, [Binge](https://binge.com.au/shows/show-succession!1771) and Foxtel On Demand in Australia, and on [Neon](https://www.neontv.co.nz/series/succession) in New Zealand). [Game of Thrones](https://concreteplayground.com/brisbane/arts-entertainment/film-tv/hbo-game-of-thrones-spinoffs-shelved), because boasting immense control and hefty fortunes can't make anyone a decent person. [2021's season three](https://concreteplayground.com/brisbane/arts-entertainment/film-tv/succession-renewed-season-four) — with Kendall, Roma and Shiv all estranged from and actively working against their dad, who has badged them "rats" with his usual venom — there's a higher sense of tension, greater stakes and a firmer feeling of finality anyway. There'll certainly be a chasm left in the show's wake but, like its most formidable figure won't stop doing, audiences will just have to make the most of it while it's here. In late February, in an interview with [The New Yorker](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/the-end-of-succession-is-near) a month out from season four's premiere, Succession's creator and showrunner Jesse Armstrong advised that [this is its last go-around](https://concreteplayground.com/brisbane/arts-entertainment/film-tv/succession-ending). Since it premiered in 2018, the bulk of the [HBO](https://concreteplayground.com/brisbane/arts-entertainment/film-tv/foxtel-binge-hbo) drama's feuding figures have been waiting for a big farewell. Money, which the Roys have much more of than most, aren't afraid to splash about and are always chasing, sure can't buy a reprieve from good old-fashioned pettiness. And, as Kendall, Roman and Shiv kept trying to lock in their futures, Logan found a way to cut them out that couldn't have cut deeper. And if he's challenged or threatened, as three seasons of the [Emmy-winning](https://concreteplayground.com/sydney/arts-entertainment/film-tv/2022-emmy-winners-to-watch) series have done again and again, he shows no signs of ever letting go. The reason is right there in the title, because for any of the Roy clan's adult children to scale the family company's greatest heights and remain there — be it initial heir apparent Kendall (Jeremy Strong, [Armageddon Time](https://concreteplayground.com/brisbane/event/armageddon-time-3)), his inappropriate photo-sending brother Roman (Kieran Culkin, [No Sudden Move](https://concreteplayground.com/sydney/arts-entertainment/film-tv/best-straight-to-streaming-films-and-specials-of-2021)), their political-fixer sister Siobhan (Sarah Snook, [Pieces of a Woman](https://concreteplayground.com/melbourne/event/pieces-of-a-woman)), or eldest sibling and now-presidential candidate Connor (Alan Ruck, [The Dropout](https://concreteplayground.com/brisbane/arts-entertainment/film-tv/the-dropout-disney-plus-review)) — their father Logan's (Brian Cox, Remember Me) tenure must wrap up.

Created by Jesse Armstrong, the Emmy-winning drama series Succession returns for its fourth and final season from today on BINGE and FOX SHOWCASE, with new ...

Season three, which premiered October 2021, earned the SAG Award for drama ensemble and swept at WGA, DGA, and PGA. Jesse Armstrong serves as showrunner. A power struggle ensues as the family weighs up a future where their cultural and political weight is severely curtailed.

These are the best filming locations in HBO's "Succession," including destinations in Norway from season four, Italian villas from season three, and more.

Built between 1810 and 1824, the medieval mansion is the home of the [Hervey-Bathurst family](https://eastnorcastle.com/about/family/). [sold for $105 million](https://www.homesandgardens.com/news/henry-ford-II-succession-mansion) in November 2021. [Tickets for castle and ground tours](https://eastnorcastle.com/opening-times-and-prices/) are available. [Cavtat](https://www.croatiagems.com/croatias-amazing-scenery-steals-the-show-in-drama-succession/) on a superyacht. [Eastnor Castle](https://eastnorcastle.com/) in the United Kingdom's Herefordshire. [Juvet Landscape Hotel](https://juvet.com/en/). Learn more about the yacht, including how to book it, [here](https://www.yachtcharterfleet.com/luxury-charter-yacht-25281/solandge.htm). To ease the bittersweet weekly release of the show’s final 10 episodes, we’ve laid out the absolute best [filming locations](https://www.housebeautiful.com/lifestyle/entertainment/a41968608/wednesday-filming-locations-romania-castle/) in every season of the show—many of which you can actually visit. The castle is the second-largest private home to ever be built in the United States and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. “When we saw images of the remarkable architecture and setting of Juvet, we got really excited,” producer Scott Ferguson told [Variety](https://variety.com/2022/tv/global/succession-season-4-norway-shoot-alexander-skarsgard-1235402260/). [Succession](https://www.housebeautiful.com/design-inspiration/a38024659/succession-apartment-woolworth-tower-residences-for-sale/)’s fourth and final season is underway, meaning fans will soon find out the fate of the fictional media conglomerate Waystar Royco and the powerful family behind it. In the massively popular [HBO show](https://www.housebeautiful.com/lifestyle/entertainment/a42641499/the-last-of-us-filming-locations/)’s run, the Roys and their cohorts have frequented countless high-end places that any admirer of architecture, design, and travel would adore.

The Roy family continues to scramble for power, but can they dethrone Logan? Here's where to watch Succession season 4 online.

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Our No. 1 legacy-media mogul turns [REDACTED], but his children turned enemies are the ones celebrating. A recap of the season 4 premiere of 'Succession' on ...

The only difference between him and some unloved crank in The Villages is that he can vent directly to the network when he doesn’t like what he sees. And that’s perhaps the fundamental difference between them: The Wambsgans-Roy partnership may seem like a wedding of convenience for a go-getting executive type like Tom, but of the two of them, he seems to have understood their relationship as a real marriage. “Because there are things I wouldn’t mind saying and explaining.” Shiv shares some of his sadness — they clasp hands wistfully at the end of the scene — but not the same desire and facility for real intimacy. The greatest indulgence money buys them is the freedom to turn their lives into a thrilling psychodrama, to make themselves part of “the conversation.” At Logan’s party, the forgotten Roy child, Connor, talks to Greg and his date, Bridget, about his prospects in the upcoming election and how his current share of the electorate, one percent, could get “squeezed” if he doesn’t get aggressive. But even his rant on Bridget’s bag goes for the jugular: “What’s even in there? These are games all of them can afford to play, and their billions put them in the same arena regardless of whether they’re on speaking terms. “Congratulations on saying the biggest number, you fucking morons” is all dad can say after the negotiations are over, and it’s hard to know whether he’s mocking them for overpaying or steaming about losing the company he’d always dreamed about gutting. As Logan approaches his marriage to GoJo, they focus on the billions they stand to inherit from the deal and the possibilities of striking out on their own. One of the major themes of “The Munsters” is how little money matters to people with endless amounts of it. That’s the lowest number.”) To hang on to his precious percent, Connor figures he needs to spend another $100 million and perhaps reconceive his upcoming wedding to Willa as a “razzmatazz”-filled media event. Kendall and Shiv can’t get away from the Hundred fast enough, though Shiv’s proposal that they do both leaves Roman in the uncharacteristic position of being the adult in the room: “Let’s launch a high-visibility, execution-dependent disruptor news brand while simultaneously performing CPR on a fucking corpse of a legacy-media conglomerate.” But Roman’s relative caution in approaching a Pierce acquisition speaks to an ongoing fear of his father. No one he cares about is present — and though cares is an endlessly complicated term to describe how anyone in the Roy family feels about one another, it still applies.

The Roy family is back for a fourth and final season, and everyone came out swinging. Let the humiliations begin.

I’m “Substack meets Masterclass meets the Economist meets The New Yorker.”) Connor Roy (Alan Ruck) is in a funk all episode because he has been told he needs to spend another $100 million on his presidential campaign just to maintain his current 1 percent in the polls. Bridget is “a firecracker” and “crunchy peanut butter,” who at one point sneaks off with him and has “a bit of a rummage” in his pants. It is “like a private members club but for everyone.” It is “an indispensable bespoke information hub” with “high-calorie info-snacks.” It “has the ethos of a nonprofit but the path to crazy margins.” (Tag yourself! brand that Logan would never honor (despite Tom’s promise to the Pierces of “a little tummy-tickle on culture”). (Who is also possibly his lover and the future mother of his child? (“I don’t want to be restricted to my favorites,” she says, a tossed-off remark that says a lot about Shiv’s whole vibe.) They bicker a bit about how Tom and Cousin Greg ( She insists there is no way to back out of her tentative deal with Logan and groans that she is tired of hearing about numbers, while sneakily steering her new suitors toward an offer well beyond the $7 billion Waystar was planning to spend. Shiv wants primarily to be taken seriously so that Nan will stop thinking of the Roy kids as “fake fruit for display purposes only.” The younger Roys know that they can offer Nan assurances about preserving the P.G.M. What eventually rouses Logan on this deeply depressing evening is what is happening across the country in Los Angeles, where Shiv, Kendall (Jeremy Strong) and Roman (Kieran Culkin) are plotting revenge for the vicious way Logan blocked their recent coup attempt. After betraying his wife and allying with Logan Roy (Brian Cox), Tom is starting to realize that his father-in-law perhaps values him mainly as a way to keep tabs on his rebellious kids. Everyone always needs to iron out a few more details, get a few more stragglers from the board into the fold, toss in a few more sweeteners for the major shareholders, et cetera.

The HBO dramedy's final season kicked off with a devastating moment for a couple at war.

Shiv was raised on this philosophy, so it’s no wonder that she chooses to cut her losses with Tom instead of enduring, as she so tellingly frames his suggestion that they have an open conversation, “a whole lot of bullsh-t for no profit.” Unwilling to cede any ground to Tom, she refuses his pitiful offer to “see if I can make love to you” but insists on staying put until morning. But together they form a market”—like a “job market, marriage market, money market, market of ideas” (emphasis mine). These days, he’s so cozy with his ambitious personal assistant, Kerry (Zoë Winters)—now introducing herself as his “friend, assistant, and adviser”—that his kids are suspicious he’s trying to sire yet another heir. Even Greg’s dating has become transactional; in Italy, he tried to trade up from Ken’s publicist Comfry (Dasha Nekrasova), and now he’s hooking up in Logan’s guest room with a woman glued to social media, who may or may not be engaged in corporate espionage. (Yes, the linchpins in the Pierce bidding war are two feuding couples.) Meanwhile, the siblings’ elder half-brother Connor (Alan Ruck) is days away from marrying a woman (Justine Lupe) he met in her capacity as an escort, who panics upon hearing that he might spend $100 million on his pathetic presidential campaign, until he assures her that after doing so he’d still be rich. “What are people?” Logan asks his security guard and “best pal” Colin (Scott Nicholson), in Sunday’s episode, after leaving his depressing birthday party to mix with commoners at a diner. When she suggests it’s time for them to “move on,” Tom simply replies: “That makes me sad.” Succession creator Jesse Armstrong chooses his words, and plots out his character arcs, carefully, so it doesn’t feel like a stretch to read this as a callback to Tom’s memorable line from the season 2 finale: “I just wonder if the sad I’d be without you is less than the sad I get from being with you.” After a day of bidding against one another in an interfamilial war to purchase the liberal news empire Pierce Global Media—she as a representative of her siblings, he on behalf of their mogul father, Logan (Brian Cox)—Shiv sneaks into their cold, modern home at night, rousing Tom and ending their marriage. Instead of firing back with any zingers of his own, he simply reminds her: “We agreed that we could have a look around while we had a think, right?” When he wants to have the “big talk” they’ve been planning about the future of their marriage, she shuts him down. Sunday’s premiere showed us Ken—already divorced with two kids he rarely sees—taken aback to learn that his sometime girlfriend, Naomi Pierce (Annabelle Dexter-Jones), was spending time with Tom. Tom knows better than to make a big emotional scene—or, for that matter, to point out that his wife isn’t holding her head high so much as she’s holding back tears. First, she makes fun of Tom for palling around with Cousin Greg (Nicholas Braun) as “the disgusting brothers” and sleeping with models.

Shiv, Kendall, and Roman convene at a modern mountainside home in the 'Succession' season four premiere.

Lest we forget, these are the children of fictional media mogul [Logan Roy](https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/succession-season-3-all-about-that-hamptons-mansion), who [Forbes](https://www.forbes.com/web-stories/how-rich-is-the-roy-family-on-succession/) estimates is worth a whopping (fictional) $18 billion. At 20,000 square feet, this over-the-top property encompasses an owner’s suite that could serve as its own apartment, plus five guest suites, countless amenities, and a striking silhouette. In real life, the six bedroom, 18 bathroom house known as the San Onofre estate was built by real estate developer [beyond wealthy](https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/succession-filming-locations-you-can-visit). Inside, fan favorite character Roman Roy (Kieran Culkin) is yelling at a Zoom meeting on the television, in a living room surrounded by high glass walls, some fully open to the outdoors, looking out on an infinity pool and sweeping mountain views beyond that. [the hit HBO drama](https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/how-the-high-powered-worlds-of-hbos-succession-are-mastered).

In the premiere of its fourth and final season, the HBO show offered familiar beats but also a hint of a new direction.

The [script](https://assets.scriptslug.com/live/pdf/scripts/succession-101-celebration-2018.pdf) for the show’s Season 1 premiere, “Celebration,” at one point describes Logan’s entrance into a room as changing its “center of gravity.” He simply is the game—not just the nucleus but also the force by which every other character is defined. Is Nan Pierce, the neutrals-clad, left-leaning matriarch of Pierce, also the ghost of Shiv future? Not in the least; it’s too early in the season for that kind of thing. [weighed his mortality](https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/11/succession-season-3-episode-5/620701/), taking a lonely walk in the park while flanked by his “best pal” and fixer, Colin. This is not to be uncharitable about a show that’s consistently more watchable, more bleakly pleasurable than almost any of its peers. In tonight’s episode, a scene that could have been a devastating autopsy of Shiv and Tom’s marriage was cut off at the head by Shiv’s refusal to participate. I can appreciate the layers of societal critique within this approach, the show’s clear indictment of how the outsized influence of a few emotionally stunted men can contaminate not just their own families but also the entire world. It directly restaged a number of events from the show’s pilot: Logan again reluctantly celebrated a birthday and Kendall again overbid on a media property in order to prove his business acumen to himself and his father. “Tom, I think we could talk things to death, but actually, we both just made some mistakes, and I think a whole lot of crying and bullshit is not gonna help that,” she said. Narratively, Succession is also as circular as a sitcom: It has a tendency to reset itself rather than shake things up in unexpected fashion. (Ask yourself whether Kendall, an adorable dodo princeling, would really use internecine in a sentence, or whether you’ve ever actually heard a person say that word out loud.)

A lot happened in the season premiere of "Succession," kicking off the two-time Emmy-winning HBO show's final flight of episodes, including the ongoing feud ...

Things are so strained as the season begins that Logan’s assistant and now out-of-the-closet girlfriend, Kerry (Zoe Winters), tried to arrange a birthday call between the trio and their dad, only to trigger an awkward negotiation about whether him texting an interest in talking to them would be sufficient. Because to paraphrase Logan, when “Succession’s” good, it’s good. If that wasn’t wildly eventful other than the Shiv-Tom marital strife, stay tuned.

It's the kind of extraordinary television that makes you stop and wonder if creator Jesse Armstrong entered a Faustian bargain with some lower being. Although ...

Setting a drama in the high-stakes world of family, media and billions of dollars is easy. Because the fourth season of Succession really is that good. There is no course correcting, this show has only gotten better and better with each new chapter. When the show is called Succession, someone has to succeed. Power is like energy, it’s dynamic, it moves and it transforms. It’s the kind of extraordinary television that makes you stop and wonder if creator Jesse Armstrong entered a Faustian bargain with some lower being.

If CEOs didn't define themselves so completely by their work, retirement would be less frightening.

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The final season of “Succession” is here. The first episode premiered March 26, and it opened with another birthday party for family patriarch Logan Roy ...

During the events of the day, Logan has a stroke. Perhaps Logan's most famous illness was when, in a season three episode, he gets a UTI so bad that he goes "piss mad." Logan could die near the final episode, and viewers will see his family and the company scramble in the aftermath. The UTI puts him in acute psychosis, and once the infection is gone, he's fine. He almost passes out, and Josh and Kendall have to stop to help him. Josh takes them on a long walk, and though Logan says he can handle it, he can't. Logan has had a few health problems during the series. Ahead, we're breaking down the odds Logan or Kendall die this season. He gets peace, which is good." Logan absolutely gets what he needs. Brian Cox Says He "Gets Peace" at the End [final season](https://www.popsugar.co.uk/entertainment/succession-season-4-48883072) of "Succession" is here.

Siobhan Roy, played by Sarah Snook, goes through many style transformations in Succession, and there's a hidden meaning in her many haircuts.

It's the beginning of the end as the Roy siblings abandon their hopes and dreams to take one last shot at destroying Daddy.

[Thomas Mitchell](/by/thomas-mitchell-h1a2un)is a culture reporter at The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.Connect via Following the deal, Shiv returns to New York for a reunion with Tom. But the tender moment is soon disrupted by news that his children are trying to hijack the Pierce deal; time to bench the vulnerability and switch back to vitriol. The episode ends with a half-asleep Logan tuning into ATN’s nightly chat show, the ageing king surveying the fiefdom. Roman has traditionally been the least eager to challenge Logan, and The Hundred was a way of doing something new without poking the bear. While the kids toast their success, Logan finally reaches out to pass on his best wishes. The crushing insults are still there (“Your face is giving me a headache,” Roman tells Shiv), but they remain a united front – for now. Their latest venture is The Hundred, a “disruptor” news site that would probably be terrible but also something I would likely subscribe to. Firstly, Shiv and Tom are headed for divorce and Tom needs to know he’ll still be an honorary Roy even if he’s no longer married to one. Succession loves a good party scene, even if the celebrations are often tense affairs with very little to celebrate. [the fourth season of Succession would be the last](/link/follow-20170101-p5ctxr). Every week The Age and They Sydney Morning Herald will be recapping the latest episode of Succession.

The first episode of Succession season four sees Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Shiv (Sarah Snook), and Roman (Kieran Culkin) aligned in their quest to take down ...

In non-business dealings, Tom and Shiv seem to be at the end of the road when it comes to their marriage. But will the end of Tom and Shiv's union affect Tom's standing with Logan? “What was the disaster in Maine?” wonders Lawson. Lawson appreciated the scene in which they appear to call it quits. For your own questions, comments, and final season theories, please email [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]). “It fails ten minutes into the episode,” Lawson notes, while pointing out it's shrewd satire of “Rather than deal with any of the way more pressing issues in their lives, they're like ‘Oh, let's start a made-up, fake, bullshit company that has no way of going anywhere,” notes Murphy. “Did she run over one of the Bushes in Kennebunkport on her wood-sided motor boat?” The abandoned business also servers as table setting for the rest of the season. The first episode of Succession season four sees Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Shiv (Sarah Snook), and Roman (Kieran Culkin) aligned in their quest to take down Logan (Brian Cox), delivering the one-two punch of skipping Logan's birthday party and scooping Pierce Media Group up under his very nose. “It's such a rich people thing to be like, 'Oh, I don't care about money. Either way, it seems Nan Pierce needs the money if only to help cover “Anne's disaster in Maine”—whatever that may be.

'Succession' fans have shared their reactions to the fourth and final season's first episode following its premiere.

He added: “I had the last scene pretty early. “That’s how I pitched it to my writers’ room, kind of hoping I’d get argued out of it so we’d see a way to do more seasons, because I love working with these people. I wavered on what were the best lines, the best way to express it — but that ending from the first draft is the one you’ll see when the episode comes out.” Love the direction of the storyline already off the top. Sometimes you see a scene that is blocked and shot and lit so precisely that it hurts. I’m sick of her being snubbed as Supporting. She’s going to kill this season and deserves the push. I'll never get this frame out of my head. This scene is pure art. [March 27, 2023] I’ll never get this frame out of my head.” Elsewhere, Shiv and Tom are going through a trial separation following his betrayal of her in season three, and Shiv tells him that she wants a divorce.

Succession returns with a crunchy peanut butter of a premiere for its fourth and final season as the Roys prepare to do battle one last time for the Waystar ...

Finally, we come to the last of the Roy children. So, in the midst of Logan’s furious dealings with his children, in the middle of a high-stakes acquisition bid, Greg fails to read the room once again and asks his uncle for a private chat. Some of the finest acting I’ve ever seen, and this in a show filled with brilliant, powerful performances. When Shiv says it’s time to move on from the marriage, all Tom can say is “uh huh.” He tried to talk to her about his feelings but she shut him down, as usual. Logan’s top security guy / bodyguard Colin (Scott Nicholson) informs Greg that he’ll need to search her on the way out and Greg decides he’ll just hang back rather than break the news to his date. Later, Tom approaches Greg to tell him he’s the laughing stock of the entire party for bringing such a grotesque plebe to the private affair. The show opened up on Logan’s 80th birthday, so it’s only fitting that now—three seasons and nearly five years later—we get to watch him grit his teeth at “Happy Birthday To You” being sung by “the monsters” as he calls his too-happy guests. They’re in the process of starting up a new media company called The Hundred which is, according to Kendall, “Substack meets masterclass meets the Economist meets The New Yorker.” It’s a “private members club but for everyone” and “an indispensable bespoke information hub” that offers “high-calorie info-snacks” with the “ethos of a nonprofit but the path to crazy margins.” And so The Hundred is dropped like one of Kendall’s girlfriends and off they rush to buy a dying legacy media brand. She’s walking away with a ridiculous amount of money and a punch to Logan’s kidney. They meet with Nan who is every bit as conniving and money-and-status-obsessed as the Roy family, but too concerned with her image to just admit it. Fast forward to the even of the final sale of Waystar RoyCo in the Season 4 premiere.

Shiv, Roman and Kendall listen to a phonecall from their Dad outside under plam trees. The Roys promptly dropped their side hustles when a chance to get back at ...

He contemplated what comes after death (he doesn't think there's much) and tried to find a sense of control after losing the PGM deal by ending his birthday watching ATN News and barking orders at an executive. He cements himself on the second-lowest rung this week when he considers throwing another $100 million at his campaign because "if I were to fall under 1 per cent I would become a laughing stock". Tom lost the deal Logan really didn't want to lose, his wife asked for a divorce in their devastating yet terribly communicated exchange, and Greg decided to break up their bromance by bringing his new girlfriend to Logan's birthday. Kerry is languishing near the bottom this week, but she's one of the closest people to Logan and can't be underestimated – until Logan decides he's done with her. But being in a trio means he'll continue to get outnumbered by Shiv and Kendall, which could lead him to go crawling back to his Dad. Sure, her personal life is in tatters, and she more than likely overpaid for PGM just out of spite, but Shiv can still call this a win.

In Wambsgans Watch we assess the state of Tom Wambsgans' (Matthew Macfadyen) relationships at the end of the season four premiere 'The Munsters,' including ...

If you’re not a subscriber yet, [click here to get started](https://subs.nymag.com/magazine/subscribe/official-subscription.html?utm_source=editorial&utm_medium=article_inline&utm_campaign=succession_vulturearticles#/). In his heart, Tom knows he is absolutely a disgusting brother, and he loathes this about himself, so he channels all those negative feelings toward clueless sexual rummager Greg. If Tom hadn’t mentioned his drink with Naomi to Shiv, the Roy family Rebel Alliance would have found out about the plan to snag PGM indirectly from Greg. It’s tempting to say it’s tragic that his marriage to Shiv has ended with a long, ambivalent sigh. The subtext of Logan’s comment is that Tom should tread lightly. It’s apparent by the end of this episode, after Tom and Shiv basically agree to get a divorce because Shiv would rather give up on their marriage than actually work through the pain they’ve caused each other, that they’ve never really discussed Tom’s betrayal and never will. Because even though he seems to have his professional shit sort-of together on the surface, Tom knows that on the inside he’s still very much a Cousin Greg. He rings her up to tell her he had a drink with Naomi Pierce, former girlfriend of Kendall and member of the family that owns a media company Logan once wanted to acquire. In the final shot of that episode, Tom places his hands on Shiv’s clavicle, which can be interpreted in two ways: either he’s comforting his wife, or his grip is sliding ever closer to Shiv’s throat. Like everyone on Succession, Tom’s macro-objective is to hold on to as much money, power, and clout as he can. Because he’s doing for Shiv what he did for Logan at the end of season three when he let him know three of his kids were about to ambush him: He’s letting his wife know that her dad plans to make another run at acquiring the Pierces’ media conglomerate. Tom has a real skill for saying words that don’t actually express what he means, and it’s on full display this episode, starting with his phone call to Shiv.

Succession star Matthew MacFadyen actor opens up about the final moments on set of the HBO show and his character Tom Wambsgans.

He views his career like the ocean, where the lulls of looking for the next right project are followed by the crest of a really good moment; the trick is to wait for the wave to come. “I love that they’re quite bloody-minded and gladiatorial in that we shoot a 10- or 12-page scene in one continuous take and then do that eight or nine times over,” he explains. “It started to feel like it was more definitive as we got closer to the end, and I trust Jesse and his team to decide how to go out on a high,” he says. “It was pretty brave and cool that he was willing to be the fall guy for the family, and [last season] when he sensed that Shiv [Sarah Snook] was disappointed that he got off the hook, and in fact maybe wanted him to go to jail, it was a death by a thousand cuts,” he explains. He didn’t have the chance to explain his reasons to Shiv, or to have the chance to tell her that there wasn’t anything he did that she wouldn’t have done. He says the cast “sort of knew the end might be coming” and that Armstrong had spoken to them to lay the groundwork for the end while still leaving room to change his mind. “It was sort of awful,” he says. [ breakdown of the show’s single successful marriage](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/succession-season-4-episode-1-shiv-tom-1235360644/); Macfadyen is most moved by his character’s attempts to process the abbreviated split. Despite his often outwardly cheery demeanor and constant quips (episode 401’s riff on Greg’s date’s handbag nearly rivals the great deck shoes castigation of 103), Tom hasn’t been a stranger to melancholy. “In a word, I thought it was great,” he says of the season-three [cliffhanger](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/succession-recap-season-4-premiere-1235353506/) that saw Tom cutting his wife out of her family’s company. [Matthew Macfadyen](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/matthew-macfadyen/) is nothing like Tom Wambsgans. But now, as the high-octane family drama [launches its fourth season](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/succession-season-4-episode-1-shiv-tom-1235360644/), Wambsgans has climbed the ranks to become billionaire Logan Roy’s double-crossing right-hand man — all much to Macfadyen’s delight.

Succession star Nicholas Braun has teased that there will be some “big and bold” moments for his character Greg Hirsch in the final season of the show.

[Succession](https://www.digitalspy.com/succession/) star Nicholas Braun has teased that there will be some "big and bold" moments for his character in the [fourth and final season](https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a38013013/succession-season-4-release-date/) of the show. "Maybe it could be like a 'Better Call Gerri' show, where it's all about the fixer and different cases – I don't know," she said. You’re going to get a nice healthy dose of what you like out of these guys." He’s always been a guy who’s tried to play whatever sides are available to him and he really leans into that this season." I think there's a lot of material." "It’s a fun thing to talk about [but] we’re focused on this – this is the main event of our lives," he continued.

While patricide plan B gets underway, the leggy princeling 'rummages to fruition' at his uncle's superbly squirm-inducing party. Welcome back, Roy-alists!

That sepia title sequence was subtly tweaked, with a shot added of the StarGo app (complete with slow loading). With Logan and his lieutenants at the other end of a phoneline, he was on the back foot for once. [Grey Gardens](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/aug/14/grey-gardens-anniversary-hamptons-documentary), going Mano a Nano”. Their financing was “robust”, but they wouldn’t “take your properties and roll them in the dirt” like evil pater. When Shiv returned to their Broadway apartment to collect some clothes, she and Tom quietly agreed they had reached the end of the road. He tried to lighten the mood by getting his inner circle to give him a “roasting”, but, understandably, they were all too terrified. The contrast between the genteel Pierces, who pretend not to care about money, and the venal Roys, who care about little else, was beautifully portrayed once again. Not to be confused with the gimmicky cricket tournament, this was “a one-stop info shop for smart people”. “I feel like we’re in the middle of a bidding war,” said the pearl-clutching matriarch Nan Pierce (Cherry Jones). Before she was ejected, she and Greg found time for a fumble in a guest bedroom. How about marrying underneath the Statue of Liberty with a brass band and assorted hoopla? His sole confidantes were his “friend, assistant and adviser” Kerry (Zoe Winters) and his bodyguard, Colin (Scott Nicholson).

As the Roy family's fleet of helicopters land for their final outing, there's no point in resisting this sumptuous programme. There really is nothing else ...

Based on the glimmering episodes I’ve seen so far, Succession intends to go out on a peak that people will still be talking about in 20 or 30 years. Yes, I can see that it is sumptuous, dense and brilliant, and that at its best it has some of the finest dialogue not just on TV now but on TV ever. It’s great that it’s a lot of quite nasty, unlikable people being funny. It feels clever in the same way that putting your hand up and saying the right answer in a classroom is clever: in a smug and self-satisfied way. But, sometimes, watching it I feel as if I’m being cornered at a party by someone telling me about a non-fiction book I “have to read” while I watch other people laughing and having fun. I know it’s a thinly veiled portrait of the Murdochs and it’s whip-smart and Machiavellian.

There was plenty to group-text frantically about in Succession's Season 4 premiere, from Cherry Jones's migraine to Shiv's drawstring-pants outfit to Naomi ...

Tom and Greg's (ostensibly platonic) relationship is the most important and intimate one on the show as it enters its final days.

In true Succession fashion, the level of its celebratory fervour sits somewhere below ‘shareholder meeting’: today is merely a premise under which to gather the suits together and talk shop. And boy, do these people love to talk: the Roys and their entourage are plagued by a compulsive inability to speak about anything other than the next acquisition of a legacy media company. Empires are built and destroyed, elections are fixed and wars declared, and incomprehensibly vast sums of money are shuffled like cards, all because of the words passed between a few people in a room.

The kids are distraught, Logan is furious but victorious and Shiv knows what Tom did. OK, this is your final spoiler warning – after this, you only have ...

And Shiv lets on that she and Tom are headed for divorce so there won’t be a conflict between running Pierce and being married to the head of ATN. And Shiv is not interested in a full accounting of everything that went down. Of course, it has everything to do with Logan, and just like Prince Harry “striking out on his own”, what the Roy kids really want is to be back in the family firm in one way or the other. He agrees and they both sit down on the bed, with their backs to each other. It comes out that Shiv has been staying in a hotel since the start of their trial separation. Tom roasts Greg by convincing his punching bag that Greg accidentally made Logan a sex tape and that the boss watches all the surveillance cameras every night. The prospect of buying Pierce out from under daddy is too enticing for Shiv and Kendall, who immediately smell blood. Why anyone would even want to be in the cesspool that is American public discourse baffles, befuddles and bewilders anyone outside of the US. The mark of a true capitalist. All the hangers-on have turned out to awkwardly sing “Happy birthday” – kaching to the rights owners of that song. It was terribly gauche and not the done thing – and a plot point the writers borrowed from when Princess Diana gifted the Queen the same, not understanding the monarch who has everything preferred homemade jam or whoopee cushions. The old(er) man is wandering the many rooms of his Manhattan townhouse in a spiffy, double-breasted cardigan.