Next in ‘Succession’: Backstabbing, banter and business continue in final season

Since 2018, the designer-clad, private-jet-setting Roy family has graced HBO with its particular brand of sardonic humor and drama. Now, after five years of media mayhem, Jesse Armstrong’s (“Peep Show”) witty business masterpiece returns for a fourth and final season. “Succession” premieres its closing installment Sunday, March 26, on HBO.

The highly acclaimed series, which was nominated for 25 awards at the 2022 Emmys and took home a win for Outstanding Drama Series, follows the Roy family as its potential heirs wage a semi-private battle for the position of Waystar Royco CEO.

All children of media magnate Logan Roy (Brian Cox, “Troy,” 2004) — a Rupert Murdoch-type businessman — Kendall (Jeremy Strong, “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” 2020), Siobhan, a.k.a. Shiv (Sarah Snook, “An American Pickle,” 2020) and Roman Roy (Kieran Culkin, “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,” 2010) have been oscillating between union and division in the name of (you guessed it) succession since the very first episode. There is also, as viewers know, one more Roy child who often goes overlooked.

Connor Roy (Alan Ruck, “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” 1986), Logan’s eldest and the only child from his first marriage, flits in and out of family affairs while chasing his main goal: the American presidency. Despite his dream of running the country rather than his father’s empire, Connor still often manages to complicate matters for his family on the way to the top of the political sphere.

Amid the turmoil, scandal, politics and petty familial affairs, Logan is still running the show heading into Season 4 — something that somewhat shocked actor Cox, considering the original plan for the series.

“I was supposed to die at the end of the first series,” Cox said of the show’s inaugural season. “But

I think they [the writers] realized that Logan is the centrifugal force of the piece. Everything has to spin off him, and the kids’ vices are all about their father.”

That said, come Season 4, anything could happen. Regardless, series creator Armstrong has stated his intention to deliver on the promise set out in the show’s title.

Each of the final season’s 10 episodes will release weekly on HBO.