A little over a year after the devastating (for the children) finale of season 3 of ‘Succession’, we return to the plots and intrigues within the Roy family and their company WayStar RoyCo. The appointment will be next Sunday (Monday in Spain) on HBO Max and the server has already been able to take a look at the first episode of the final season of the series. And yes, we confirm: it is back as excellent as it was.
I don’t know to what extent Jesse Armstrong and company were one hundred percent sure that this season 4 was going to be the end of the series. However, this start indicates yessince I do not think it is a random choice to start this last batch with Logan’s (Brian Cox) birthday, which refers us to the very beginning of the series.
birthday roast
The circumstances are, yes, quite different. If on that 80th birthday the tycoon dropped the bombshell that he was not planning to retire as CEO of the company, to the bitterness of Kendall (Jeremy Strong), this time the family is even more divided, with part of the family on the other side of the country. Like the posters of this season, it is inevitable to notice the reflections between what was before and what is now.
Not only is the absence of Shiv, Kendall and Roman, who are looking to launch the next “great Internet medium” (with whom the latter was already working for a while), notable, but there is also a somewhat rarefied atmosphere. The division of the family It’s like a big ghost hovering over the executives of the company in which the future of the company is being decided.
Another striking question about the start of the season is that, for the first time, does not start practically right after the end: It’s been a while (not too long) but Armstrong doesn’t mess around when it comes to presenting the new status quo, aided by Mark Mylod’s camera, like two trains on a collision course.
I won’t go any further on plot issues because there are a few days left before we see this first episode, entitled ‘The Munsters’, but you can imagine if you are fans of the series that we have layers and layers of dialogues, attitudes and the occasional “side talk” that make foresee enough stab wounds in what the sale of the company is resolved.
seal of sophistication
Also, and as the protagonists of ‘Girls5Eva’ would say watching a parody of the series, we still have nasty people in beautiful places. The level of production remains accurate in an issue that is rarely highlighted: sophistication, which is a language in itself. In what other productions show that people are millionaires because of the bizarre (good thing, we have something), here it is shown with what is not obvious.
Armstrong’s script also continues to navigate like few others in one of the hallmarks of the series: that dramatic satire not without a certain humor —which at the beginning of the season continues to be exploited in the “adventures” of Greg and Tom— which forms a tone as characteristic as it is difficult to imitate that makes us continue, season by season, episode by episode, wanting more of these bastard people .
We will have to see how the rest of the season develops (we have Roys until the end of May) but it has to be bad for ‘Succession’ do not close your journey as one of the great series no longer from HBO, but from what we have been in the 21st century. The sharp pen, the splendid cast in nuances and a precise direction make this final season promise to have us at the feet of its creatives.
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