The wait is over! HBO has just announced that our favorite will be premiering Sunday, March 26, 20223. The first three seasons of the Emmy award winning HBO Original drama series has garnered 48 Emmy nominations and 13 wins, including Outstanding Drama Series, for the second and third seasons. Season three, which premiered October 2021, earned the SAG Award for drama ensemble and swept at WGA, DGA, and PGA. The show was created by by Jesse Armstrong; executive produced by Jesse Armstrong, Adam McKay, Frank Rich, Kevin Messick, Jane Tranter, Mark Mylod, Tony Roche, Scott Ferguson, Jon Brown, Lucy Prebble, Will Tracy, and Will Ferrell. Jesse Armstrong serves as showrunner. This season will also be ten episodes and will be available to stream on HBO Max.
It explores themes of power and family dynamics through the eyes of patriarch Logan Roy (Brian Cox) and his four grown children, Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Siobhan (Sarah Snook), Roman (Kieran Culkin), and Connor (Alan Ruck).
What will this season be about?
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Last season seemed to end with a betrayal between the patriarch Logan Roy (Brian Cox) who had betrayed his children Kendall, Shiv and Roman (Kieran Culkin). By going behind their backs and secretly selling Waystar Royco. Their very own family firm. In the midst of it all his children have been all trying to kill each other to gain the company. Typical family squabbles no less. In the very last scene, they all learn Logan had made a deal for the company with Lukas, despite everyone trying to out best him which he mocked them for. Never go against a king, you will lose.
Now this season will start off with the sale of media conglomerate Waystar Royco to tech visionary Lukas Matsson (Alexander Skarsgård) moving even closer. 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 complete. A power struggle ensues as the family weighs up a future where their cultural and political weight is severely curtailed.
Who will be returning & joining in?
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Newly announced season 4 cast included the following: Annabeth Gish, Adam Godley, Eili Harboe, and Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson. Newly announced returning cast include: Harriet Walter (Lady Caroline Collingwood), James Cromwell (Ewan Roy), Natalie Gold (Rava Roy), Caitlin Fitzgerald (Tabitha), Ashley Zukerman (Nate Sofrelli), Larry Pine (Sandy Furness), Mark-Linn Baker (Maxim Pierce), and Pip Torrens (Peter Munion).
Previously announced season 4 cast returning includes: Brian Cox, Jeremy Strong, Sarah Snook, Kieran Culkin, Alan Ruck, Matthew Macfadyen, Nicholas Braun, J. Smith-Cameron, Peter Friedman, David Rasche, Fisher Stevens, Hiam Abbass, Justine Lupe, Dagmara Domińczyk, Arian Moayed, Scott Nicholson, Zoë Winters, Annabelle Dexter-Jones, Juliana Canfield, and Jeannie Berlin. Additional cast includes Alexander Skarsgård, Cherry Jones, Hope Davis, Justin Kirk, and Stephen Root.
Is this going to be the last season?
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Fans are being kept in suspense as to whether this will be the last season or not. No one really knows for sure but Armstrong told Variety he wasn’t sure how much longer the show would continue. When asked specifically how Logan blowing up the company changed the very nature of the show, Armstrong said: “It changes it. I’d be bullshitting you if I told you I knew exactly what was going to happen. We’ll follow the truth, and the business of that. I think succession in one form or another is very much still on the table.”
This answer however vague, doesn’t provide much but we can be sure to be hearing something soon from HBO. They won’t leave us dangling for too long or will they?
Here is the teaser trailer below of Season 4, courtesy of HBO Max:
