HBO Announces ‘Succession’ Season 4 Premiere Date; Emmy-Winning Series to Return on March 26
If you’ve been missing a show full of back-stabbing family feuds since “Yellowstone” took a midseason break, relief is finally heading your way. HBO has announced that its inheritance drama series “Succession” will debut its fourth season on Sunday, March 26.
“Succession” centers on an incredibly successful business mogul, and his plans for his empire when he eventually steps down. The series explores themes of power and family dynamics through the eyes of patriarch Logan Roy (Brian Cox) and his four grown children, Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Siobhan (Sarah Snook), Roman (Kieran Culkin), and Connor (Alan Ruck).
In season 4, 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.
The March 26 premiere date for “Succession” is a bit of an eyebrow-raiser, because things could look very different on HBO Max by then. The service’s parent company Warner Bros. Discovery is planning to combine HBO Max and its other streamer discovery+ into a service called “Max” sometime this spring. No specific date has been announced yet, but it’s highly likely the changeover will happen sometime during the run of Season 4 of “Succession.”
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글로벌 미디어 산업의 성공으로 부유하고 영향력 있는 집안의 가장 로건 로이는 강한 성격의 사업가이자 네 자식의 아버지이다. 상속 1순위였던 장남 캔덜은 아버지의 완벽한 신임을 받지 못한다. 둘째 아들 로만은 경영과는 거리가 멀지만 아버지의 재산을 호시탐탐 노린다. 아버지가 가장 예뻐하는 딸인 쉬브는 아버지의 귀여움을 받지만 예측하기 힘든 엉뚱함과 괴팍함을 가졌다. 로이가 첫 번째 부인으로부터 낳은 코너 로이는 기업 경영에 큰 관심을 보이지 않는다. 이들은 모두 아버지의 재산과 기업을 탐낸다. 마침 아버지가 헬기를 타고 가다 뇌졸중으로 쓰려져 의식 불명 상태가 되자, 이들은 기업의 후계자 자리를 놓고 한 판 싸움을 벌인다.
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The show is returning to its coveted Sunday night time slot, which HBO Max usually reserves for its most-watched original series. Shows like “Game of Thrones,” “The House of the Dragon” and most recently “The White Lotus” and “The Last of Us” have all seen massive success in this window. “The Last of Us” wraps its first season on March 12, so HBO Max fans will have two weeks to recover before rolling into the new season of “Succession.”
Recent high-profile cancelations and show removals at HBO Max may have led some fans to fear that “Succession” might be the next series to get the axe on the service. After all, if “Westworld” can be canceled and licensed to a third-party streamer, is any show really safe? Fortunately for fans, the wave of content cuts at HBO Max is over according to company executives, and “Succession“‘s status as perennial awards fodder would likely have ensured its survival anyhow.
The upcoming year figures to have plenty more changes in store for HBO Max, as WBD continues to focus on making its streaming arm profitable. At least one thing has been set in stone: the new season of “Succession” will debut on the service on Sunday, March 26.
HBO Max
HBO Max is a subscription video streaming service that gives access to the full HBO library, along with exclusive Max Originals. Subscribers will have access to hit HBO series like “The Last of Us,” “House of the Dragon,” “Succession,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” and more.