Succession
‘Succession’ Star Unpacks That “Dangerous and Terrifying” Final Season Power Grab
(This story contains spoilers from the second episode of Succession‘s fourth season, “Rehearsal.”) First, they stole their father’s birthday present. Now, they’re after his birthday future. Following the final Succession season premiere‘s tense bidding war for Pierce Global Media, the second episode sees the siblings Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Shiv (Sarah Snook) and Roman (Kieran Culkin) once […]
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Critic’s Notebook: Capitalism and TV Today, a Love/Hate Story
In an ironic twist, some of the biggest perpetrators of corporate ruthlessness in the entertainment industry are currently producing several of the most honest portraits of our bleak economic moment.
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Matthew Macfadyen Ponders the End and Looks to Life After ‘Succession’
It’s well known by now that Matthew Macfadyen is nothing like Tom Wambsgans. In Succession’s early years, comparisons focused on the juxtaposition between the refined British actor — a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and notorious for his role as one Mr. Darcy — and the bumbling Midwesterner he portrays. But now, […]
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‘Succession’ Star Jeremy Strong Plants “Seeds of Destruction” in Final Season Premiere
(This story contains spoilers for the final season premiere of Succession, “The Munsters.”) Kendall Roy (Jeremy Strong) isn’t alone anymore. After a turbulent ride through three seasons of HBO’s Succession, the second eldest son of Logan Roy (Brian Cox) and former heir apparent to the Waystar empire now has actual allies on his side: siblings […]
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‘Succession’: Sarah Snook, Matthew Macfadyen Break Down a Tragic Nonconfrontation
[This story contains spoilers for the fourth-season premiere of Succession on HBO.] Most of Sunday’s Succession premiere was taken up by a bidding war between media mogul Logan Roy (Brian Cox) and his three younger children, Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Shiv (Sarah Snook) and Roman (Kieran Culkin). After their dad (with an assist from their mom) […]
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‘Succession’ Begins Final Season With the World’s Glummest Birthday Party
[This story contains spoilers for the fourth-season premiere of HBO’s Succession.] Succession has always loved a party: The HBO series has staged a number of set pieces over its three previous seasons that gets a host of characters in the same space to play off one another, break into their own subgroups, and gossip and […]
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‘Succession’ Star Kieran Culkin Explains Why Roman Roy Doesn’t Seem to Understand Chairs
Kieran Culkin had a Succession question dropped in his lap while promoting the fourth and final season of the Emmy-winning HBO drama series. During Culkin’s visit to The Tonight Show on Friday, host Jimmy Fallon noted that the actor’s character, Roman Roy, appears to enjoy sitting on chairs in unconventional ways, including resting himself on […]
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‘Succession’ Star Brian Cox Doubles Down on Method Acting Criticism
Brian Cox leaned into his now well-known views on Method acting during a late-night visit to promote the final season of Succession. The veteran Scottish actor, who plays patriarch Logan Roy on the hit HBO series, has publicly expressed his disapproval of the immersive acting approach ever since the viral New Yorker profile on his […]
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Sarah Snook Reveals Which ‘Succession’ Characters Are Most Like ‘Friends’ Cast
Succession star Sarah Snook stopped by NBC’s Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to promote the fourth and final season of the hit HBO drama, but host Fallon also used her appearance to get her to offer a media-family take on the popular Internet quiz, “Which Friends character are you?” Snook appeared after Jennifer Aniston as […]
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“Action Stations!”: Everything You Need to Know for the Final Season of ‘Succession’
The Roy dynasty has reached the end of the line. HBO’s Succession returns Sunday, March 26, with its first new episode since 2021. It’s also the Emmy-winning drama’s final first new episode, period. Creator Jesse Armstrong revealed in February that Succession will end with season four, closing out the saga of media mogul Logan Roy […]
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Critics’ Conversation: ‘Succession’ Sets Up Its Endgame, Hilarity and Darkness Intact
The Hollywood Reporter TV critics Daniel Fienberg and Angie Han take a largely spoiler-free look at the start of the fourth and final season for HBO's Emmy-winning 'Succession.'
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‘Succession’ Cast on Final Season and Ideas for a Greg Spinoff: “‘The Life of An Idiot’ Would Be An Interesting Thing”
“I feel like I’ve come to a crazy funeral party or something,” admitted Sarah Snook, as Succession held its fourth and final season premiere in New York on Monday night. “It’s the beginning of the end but there’s a lot of celebration and a lot of sadness, because this is the last time we’re going […]
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