HBO Max has just released the fourth season of Succesion, a series that millions of people around the world have fallen in love with. The Roy family, owners of one of the largest conglomerates in the world of entertainment, opens the door for viewers to an exclusive world: that of the millionaires who pull the strings of the world.
If you turned on your TV today and went to HBO Max, you may have noticed that the app’s cover has changed a bit. It no longer features Pedro Pascal or Bella Ramsey. Nope, today it’s the turn of a most dysfunctional… but entertaining family.
On June 3, 2018 we saw the Roy’s for the first time and during the first chapters we doubted whether the series was worth it. The entry curve was not easy due to the fact that this series handles, like no one else, awkwardness.
Now, five years later, comes the fourth season of Succesion. And more importantly, the last season according to its producers. With this last adventure the Roy’s say goodbye. So let’s order, as of today, which have been the best seasons.
Season 1
It’s the most uncomfortable, the most difficult… and the coolest. Getting into the Roy family was tremendously difficult for millions of viewers because the relationships between its members are stark and rude.
Logan Roy, the CEO of entertainment and communications conglomerate Waystar Royco, is on the verge of death and the entire family prepares for the worst. That’s when we start to get to know everyone’s interests.
In this first season you really get to know all the members, with a special focus on the heir children Kendall Roy, Roman Roy, Siobhan Roy and Connor Roy.
They all want a piece of the pie and you discover that family isn’t everything. Power is. As we said before, getting into this series is difficult, but the pleasure of doing so is tremendous. And this season does the best job.
For us the first season is the best. Also, the good thing about this first story arc is that it lets you know if it’s worth continuing to invest time in the series or not. If you like the first season, you’ll like the others. If you don’t like the first one, better try another one. The Last of Us, for example.
Season 3
Season three is, for many, the second best season of the series so far. After a somewhat decaffeinated season 2, as you will now read, this last one did manage to rebound a plot that needs strength and weight.
In the third season, a legal and media battle breaks out around the Roy family’s company, Waystar Royco, which is facing terrible accusations of sexual abuse, illegalities and even murder in its cruise line, one of the many areas of exploitation of the company.
Things get interesting here thanks to the fact that all the family members, from the sons to the cousins to the political side to the patriarch, have to choose sides and make themselves strong in the trials to come.
The need to show a joint defense in the face of the media and the judge, but sticking knives in each other’s backs as soon as they leave the courtroom, the plot moves forward and improves in a big way.
This season is pure spectacle. For us the second best. And waiting for the end of the fourth season (the first episode has just been released), the reality is that the writers could have closed the adventures in this third part.
Season 2
Here comes the slip-up in a series that, in general terms, is one of the best in the current panorama. With the end of the first season and the masterful cliffhanger that closes it, we expected a continuation at the height.
The reality was a season very focused on Kendall Roy and his relationship with the brothers. And while it leaves very interesting chapters, the plot suffers from little direction, surviving on good dialogue and personal relationships.
And without wanting to go into serious spoilers, there are decisions in the story that do not make sense as we have been developing the personality of each of the brothers.
Roman Roy (Macaulay Culkin’s little brother, by the way) is an impressive character. So well written and so well played, that it’s worth every episode… even if it lasts an hour each one and the sleep we all have on a Monday at 11 pm.
To be honest, there is no bad season, at least so far. Season 4 has the bar set very high and has the difficult task of having to close all the plots in a satisfactory way. The hopes and pressure placed on the latter are enormous, but the writers have shown so far that they know what they are doing.
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