Well, Succession really did it, folks. The HBO drama’s final season garnered a whopping 27 Emmy nominations and won six, including wins in most major acting categories. Succession took home the awards for Outstanding Drama Series, Directing, Writing, Lead Actor (Kieran Culkin), Lead actress (Sarah Snook), and Supporting Actor (Matthew Macfadyen). It was also the most a single series had been nominated since 2019, when Game of Thrones‘s final season received 32 nominations. Only HBO can top HBO, I guess.
Now, I know what you’re thinking. Fans must be going… Is HBO sure about ending Succession? There isn’t just one more episode for us? It seems like everyone really enjoyed it. I’m not ready to rule out a spinoff with Cousin Greg just yet, but as far as anyone else is concerned, I’m sorry to confirm this is the official end of Succession.
HBO, please give us the Tom and Greg “Disgusting Brothers” spinoff.
Take it from HBO boss Casey Bloys—the show is finished… for now. He called it “highly unlikely” that Succession would even return in a recent interview with The Wrap, including any potential spinoffs. “If Jesse changed his mind and came to us and said, ‘I have the best idea, this is what I want to do,’ then we would have that conversation,” Bloys continued. “But I think he’s been pretty clear. It was an amazing show and I think it’ll go down in history as one of the best. I just don’t think he wants to go there again and I totally respect that and it makes sense. It’s really his choice and I look forward to what he’s going to do next.”
Bloys is right. Armstrong has been very clear about wanting to end Succession after season 4. Following the series finale, he said that, “There’s a promise in the title of Succession.” In an interview with the New Yorker, he confirmed that, “We could go on for ages and turn the show into something rather different, and be a more rangy, freewheeling kind of fun show, where there would be good weeks and bad weeks.” Instead, he opted to, “do something a bit more muscular and complete, and go out sort of strong,” which he said was, “always my preference.” Armstrong also added that he felt “a responsibility to the viewership” to “know it is coming to an end.”
The show’s leading patriarch, Brian Cox, agreed that it’s a good thing that Succession didn’t overstay its welcome. In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, he stated that the series “has reached its natural closure,” adding that Armstrong “won’t let anything go on further than it needs to.” He also went on to say, “I think our show is perfect, and neat, in the way it is… In a good way, I’m happy it’s over.”
OK, but what about potential spinoffs? They’re all the rage right now. HBO surely wants at least one of those, right? Surprisingly, no. “It doesn’t seem to me that there’s something in Succession where you would go, Let’s follow just this kid or whatever,” Bloys told The Guardian about a potential Cousin Greg spinoff. Damn. Don’t get your hopes up, I guess. Will I actually have to process the end of Succession? That might be scarier that Logan Roy breathing down my neck as I send an email.
“I feel sad,” Armstrong told the New Yorker. “I have the circus-has-left-town feeling that everyone gets who works on a production that’s good, and this one particularly so. I imagine I’ll be a little bit lonely, and wandering the streets of London in a funk.” We’ll wander with you, Jesse.
