End of the road for the Roys
‘Succession’ creator Jesse Armstrong says the forthcoming fourth season will be the last
All good things must come to an end, even in the world of multiple Emmy Award-winning television shows. That adage does not hold true for many shows in the ruthlessly competitive world of streaming-age television and its thunderous battles for viewership but it has been taken to heart by Succession creator Jesse Armstrong, who announced this week that the forthcoming fourth season of his phenomenally successful tale of wealthy family back-stabbing and spoilt-brat sibling treachery, will be its last.
In an exclusive interview with The New Yorker this week, Armstrong told the magazine, “I’ve never thought this could go on forever. The end has always been kind of present in my mind. From season two, I’ve been trying to think: is it the next one, or the one after that, or is it the one after that?” He said that he had got together with the writing team of the show, which has become a hot, much talked about and critically acclaimed anchor show for HBO, in 2021 and said, “Look, I th...
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