“Succession” is coming to an end. HBO’s Emmy-winning family drama, which follows the Roys as they fight for control over their father’s media conglomerate, will conclude after the upcoming 10-episode fourth season, creator and showrunner Jesse Armstrong revealed in a new interview with The New Yorker.
ET confirmed the news with HBO. “There’s a promise in the title of ‘Succession’. I’ve never thought this could go on forever,” Armstrong said of ending the show now. “The end has always been kind of present in my mind.
From season 2, I’ve been trying to think: Is it the next one, or the one after that, or is it the one after that?” As Armstrong explained, the decision to close the chapter on the Roys didn’t come without many conversations and discussions with the show’s writers.
He first floated the idea in November or December 2021 that season 4 could serve as a natural endpoint for the story. ET has reached out to HBO for comment. “I sort of said, ‘Look, I think this maybe should be it.
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