{"id":18236,"date":"2023-03-27T15:42:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T13:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=18236"},"modified":"2023-03-27T15:42:59","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T13:42:59","slug":"brian-cox-on-why-the-roy-kids-could-lose-it-all-in-final-season-of-succession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2023\/03\/27\/brian-cox-on-why-the-roy-kids-could-lose-it-all-in-final-season-of-succession\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Cox On Why The Roy Kids Could Lose It All In Final Season Of &#8220;Succession&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Showmax_black.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Showmax_black.jpg?w=750&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3061\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>With 13 Emmys under its belt already, including Outstanding Drama Series in both 2020 and 2022, <em>Succession<\/em> is back on Showmax for its fourth and final season, with new episodes releasing every Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Succession Season 4 | Official Teaser | Max\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p2v7IQVSimk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One of <em>IMDb<\/em>\u2019s highest-rated series of all-time, with an 8.8\/10 score from more than 150 000 fans, HBO\u2019s hit series tells the story of four very rich siblings behaving very badly while trying to win their father\u2019s approval \u2013 and control of his company, a global media and entertainment empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Season 4 has a 100% critics\u2019 rating on <em>Rotten Tomatoes<\/em> &#8211; its highest yet &#8211; with the critics\u2019 consensus calling the show \u201cas compulsively watchable as ever\u2026 typically brilliant.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matthew Macfadyen and Jeremy Strong return to their Emmy-winning roles as Tom Wambsgans and Kendall Roy respectively this season, alongside Brian Cox as patriarch Logan Roy, Sarah Snook and Kieran Culkin as Roy siblings Shiv and Roman, Nicholas Braun as cousin Greg, and J Smith-Cameron as Gerri Kellman &#8211; all Emmy-nominated performances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new season opens with the sale of Waystar Royco to tech visionary Lukas Matsson (Emmy winner Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd from <em>Big Little Lies<\/em>) looming ever closer. It\u2019s a prospect that provokes existential angst and familial division among the would-be heirs as they anticipate their diminished influence once the deal is completed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c[Logan&#8217;s] been looking for <em>the<\/em> successor,\u201d says Cox. \u201cHe&#8217;s really wanted his own family [to take over]. I mean, that&#8217;s his Achilles heel. He loves his children. If he didn&#8217;t love his children, he&#8217;d be a much freer man\u2026 But none of the children have been able to step up to the plate. They&#8217;ve all proved massively disappointing\u2026 With these kids, their sense of entitlement is so beyond the pale.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To be fair, the apple doesn\u2019t fall far from the tree. \u201cOf course,\u201d admits Cox, \u201c[Logan&#8217;s] got this temperament. And he&#8217;s got this sense of absolutism. And also\u2026 he\u2019s disillusioned. He\u2019s not happy. He\u2019s a misanthrope. He really doesn\u2019t like where human beings are going and he feels that they are not worth respecting.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So earning Logan\u2019s stamp of approval isn\u2019t going to be easy for anyone, but Matsson, at least, is on the right track. \u201cI think Matsson reminds Logan of who Logan was, as a young man,\u201d says Cox. \u201cAnd he feels that the business would be safe in his hands.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, after the dramatic Season 3 finale, the wild card in the succession race is Tom. \u201cLogan\u2019s witnessed Tom&#8217;s abuse, from Shiv. And he&#8217;s witnessed the result of that abuse\u2026 But also there were elements, a few moments, when Tom stepped up to the plate to take care of Logan. Nobody&#8217;s ever taken care of Logan. But he did. Tom showed that care and attention\u2026 In a sense, Logan\u2019s seen Tom as a possible future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If previous seasons are anything to go by, there are twists coming though. As <em>Times (UK)<\/em> puts it, \u201cBe assured, rugs are pulled, sharply, and you won\u2019t be disappointed.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But as <em>Vulture <\/em>points out, \u201cAs ever on <em>Succession<\/em>, the question is less about who will end up on top and more about whether any of them will make peace with what they\u2019ve had to do in order to get there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe minutiae barely matters,\u201d agrees Observer. \u201cWe\u2019re here for the backstabbing, the internal conflict, and the long strings of obscenity that remind us that if Shakespeare were writing today, he\u2019d probably be writing <em>Succession<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch <em>Succession<\/em> on Showmax: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.showmax.com\/eng\/tvseries\/yous6pmy-succession\" target=\"_blank\">www.showmax.com\/eng\/tvseries\/yous6pmy-succession<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Roast of Logan Roy | Succession | HBO\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kpFukP0QtBM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With 13 Emmys under its belt already, including Outstanding Drama Series in both 2020 and 2022, Succession is back on Showmax for its fourth and final season, with new episodes releasing every Monday. One of IMDb\u2019s highest-rated series of all-time, with an 8.8\/10 score from more than 150 000 fans, HBO\u2019s hit series tells the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2023\/03\/27\/brian-cox-on-why-the-roy-kids-could-lose-it-all-in-final-season-of-succession\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brian Cox On Why The Roy Kids Could Lose It All In Final Season Of &#8220;Succession&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[110],"class_list":["post-18236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-online","tag-showmax","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}