“Do you wanna talk about what happened?” Tom (Matthew Macfadyen) pleads to his wife, Shiv (Sarah Snook) in the first “Succession” Season 4 teaser trailer.
Last we saw Tom, Shiv and the rest of the Roy family cohort, Logan Roy’s (Brian Cox) children had banned together to scheme a takedown of the dictatorial patriarch and media mogul – only for Tom to see the writing of his own demise on the wall and warn Logan of what’s to come in the nick of time.
It’s just the latest set-up in a series that has made its name out of the Roy’s inner dramas and back-stabbing machinations. In the lead-up to that final image of Tom and Shiv hashing it out in their hotel room, HBO’s first teaser for Season 4 shows Logan remain iron-fisted in the face of mutiny (“I’m 100 feet tall; these people are pygmies”), while Shiv, Roman (Kieran Culkin) and Kendall (Jeremy Strong) court their public office-seeking eldest brother, Connor (Alan Ruck), to their “rebel alliance.”
“New gen Roys. We have a song to sing,” says Kendall.
Per HBO’s official logline: “In season four, the sale of media conglomerate Waystar Royco to tech visionary Lukas Matsson (Alexander Skarsgård) moves ever 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.”
“Succession” stars Cox, Strong, Snook, Culkin, Ruck, and Macfadyen, along with Nicholas Braun, Peter Friedman, J. Smith-Cameron, Dagmara Dominczyk, Justine Lupe, David Rasche, Fisher Stevens, Hiam Abbass, Arian Moayed, Harriet Walter, James Cromwell, Natalie Gold, Juliana Canfield, Annabelle Dexter-Jones, Zoë Winters and Jeannie Berlin.
Created by Jesse Armstrong, “Succession” is executive produced by Armstrong, Adam McKay, Frank Rich, Kevin Messick, Jane Tranter, Mark Mylod, Tony Roche, Scott Ferguson, Jon Brown, Lucy Prebble, Will Tracy and Will Ferrell. Armstrong serves as showrunner on the HBO series.
Per the teaser trailer, “Succession” Season 4 will premiere in Spring 2023. Watch the video above.
