In
this fourth and final season of
Succession,
Logan Roy gets what he needs: peace
,” promised Brian Cox at the Series Mania festival.
To the great regret of fans, HBO's flagship saga which scrutinizes the baseness and excesses of the richest 1% in the world ends with this fourth season.
The Scottish actor, who plays the terrible patriarch and media magnate, is delighted with this epilogue which prevents the series from continuing
"beyond its expiry date"
.
Especially since it is one last diabolical game of chess.
We can attend it from this Monday on Prime Video, after having paid, it is the bad surprise, even ransom, of the Warner pass at 9.99 euros.
These ten final episodes finally answer the question that opened the series: which collaborator, unless it is one of the four ungrateful children of the media mogul, will recover the reins of the family empire?
Stunned by the betrayal of their father and their brother-in-law Tom, Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Roman (Kieran Culkin) and Shiv (Sarah Snook) join forces.
And that is miraculous.
Even if everyone cultivates their B plans. Drive out the natural traitor, it comes back at a gallop.
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The Roy heirs have resigned themselves to being ousted from the Waystar Royco conglomerate that Logan cedes to Swedish tech genius and Elon Musk caricature Lukas Matsson.
But even if it means losing face, you might as well have the last word.
The trio, who are setting up their own press group, covet a competitor once desired by their parent.
History to make him bisquer.
This season 4 unravels all the plots.
The pen of screenwriter Jesse Armstrong remains deliciously cruel, iconoclastic and politically incorrect.
“Send the journalists to burn them
,” Roman suggests to a press secretary who has to deal with Saudi investors.
The pedantic and endless periphrases of the obsequious Tom are in keeping.
“Forget your visually infuriating face
,” he says to his minion, cousin Greg.
A frightening lucidity
After the devastating twist that ended the third season in stunning silence - Tom's betrayal which revealed to Logan the putsch orchestrated by Shiv and his brothers -
Succession
seems to resume in a dull and talkative way with a crash course in takeover.
This routine is torn apart with perverse savagery in subsequent episodes.
Four have been shown to the press so far.
Masterfully, the third and fourth chapters flip the chessboard in a luminous way with twists worthy of
Game of Thrones
.
And give hope for a legendary finale.
Chief lifter of this emotional lift, Jesse Armstrong brings to life his dreadful heroes tormented by the future.
“There is a tenderness, a humanity, an unprecedented fragility.
Everyone is recalibrating their priorities,
wonders actress Sarah Snook.
Tom and Shiv will interact in new ways.
He is no longer the submissive man who avoided confrontation.
The one she loved and married.
This new profile bristles his hair.
The only daughter of the clan is not the only one to split the armor
.
Carnivorous as ever, Logan Roy is not heartless.
The absence of his offspring weighs on him.
He will find them in a surreal scene that almost looks like an apology.
This season finally gives Connor his due.
Born from a first union, Logan's eldest son, ignored by his father, despised by his younger brothers who mock his stupidity, his ridiculous political ambitions, his lack of interest in business, reveals the burden of this existence without love.
With frightening lucidity.
Funny and sharp,
Succession
recalls for its last act what it has always been: a Shakespearean tragedy rather than a simple satire of a world that ordinary mortals cannot grasp.
