If these pictures follow the same story that each side represents warring sides of the Roy family, then Kendall might find himself swapping teams. Shiv comes round unexpectedly, but Tom didn’t anticipate her arrival, but still had the ring on, which suggests that behind closed doors he’s still rooting for his marriage to work. There’s a growing sense that Tom’s actions were never taken against Shiv, but for their future together. He made sure he was invaluable to the business, so even if he was pushed away by Shiv, he’d never be without her. Indeed, Armstrong had been teasing the possibility of the show's ending for several months prior to the aformentioned admission. “There's going to be a very definite moment when that story is over, and it can't go on too long,“ he told The New Statesman in September 2021. Additional returning cast members include David Rasche, Fisher Stevens, Hiam Abbass, Justine Lupe, Dagmara Domińczyk, Arian Moayed, Scott Nicholson, Zoë Winters, Annabelle Dexter-Jones, Juliana Canfield, and Jeannie Berlin. Alexander Skarsgård, Cherry Jones, Hope Davis, Justin Kirk, and Stephen Root will also reprise their roles for season four.

To complicate things further, there’s another poster for Succession season four: Suited, booted and ready for any boardroom, judging by the looks on their faces, there’s certainly no love lost between any of the characters. Logan tells Greg (Nicholas Braun) to keep an eye on Kendall (Jeremy Strong) at Tom’s bachelor party, saying he doesn’t want him dead by way of drowning in some European pool. In Season 2, Kendall even calls himself “techno Gatsby.” The guy with a death drive is always surrounded by water-based imagery, but because Logan doesn’t want his son dead, we learn at the start of the season-three finale — from Logan — that Kendall didn’t, in fact, drown. As Greg would put it, “So it be. So it is.” Even HBO executive Casey Bloys remained in the dark on Succession's future. "For those conversations, we really tend to leave it with the showrunners," he told Deadline in July last year. "Jesse is obviously figuring out what he wants the fourth season to be and he will decide whether he sees it going beyond that or not. We’ll really leave it to him and let him have his process and figure out what he wants to do."

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In the first poster, Roman is looking directly at Logan. But in the second poster, he and Logan are the only people staring directly down the lens. Is this a sign that they have more in common than they both think? Is Roman going to be… the new Logan? Shiv As anticipation built for Succession’s last ever episode and fan theories proliferated, few predicted that it would be son-in-law Tom Wambsgans who would ultimately ascend to the Waystar Royco throne. Yet maybe, just maybe, the seeds had been sown all along. Here are 12 hidden clues that foreshadowed Tom’s triumph … 1. His surname These foreshadowed our loving this season of Succession. They also foreshadowed how, by the time this show ends, the Roy kids will probably be working at a drive-through while Tom rules as emperor. Related

But what do both posters say about Logan, the figure on which the biggest question of the series — who will inherit the media empire — hangs on? Well it’s safe to say he’s the main character, but I can’t help but be drawn to his watch. Is it simply a power pose, or does his fancy timepiece hold its own significance? Maybe he’s running out of time; Logan’s health has been a question since the very first episode. Maybe it’s a gift, perhaps a peace offering? The first promotional poster for Succession famously featured an artwork to set the stage for what was to come. Logan Roy and the four contenders for the Waystar RoyCo throne stand in front of Peter Paul Rubens’s “The Tiger Hunt”(1615–17), a dynamic composition in the collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes that pits man against beast in an evocatively vicious confrontation. Inspired by an allegedly destroyed Leonardo masterpiece, “The BattleofAnghiari,” Rubens depicted a dense knot of charging hunters and bloodthirsty felines with no clear victor or distinction between predator and prey. The canvas is one of four in a cycle seized by the French from the Old Schleissheim Palace in Germany during theNapoleonic Wars, a 12-year struggle for European domination that was almost as ruthless and contentious as the Roy kids’ battle for control of their father’s media empire. (Bonus: a fan of the show discovered an image of Kendall apparently dressed as Napoleon in a recent Season 3 episode.) In September, HBO released a series of Succession posters riffing on the family rift: Kendall on one side of a hallway stare down, Logan on the other; behind them, different groupings of other members of the family. One of these variations showed the siblings falling in line behind Kendall with just Tom and Greg trailing Logan. It seemed unlikely at the time, but this is the poster that predicted where things would land by the end of the season: battle lines, action stations. Siblings united in daddy issues, trauma, and greed. It was one of the most spine-tingling moments of the entire show. In the season three finale, the siblings’ attempted coup failed because turncoat Tom had tipped off Logan. This was confirmed by Logan fondly touching Tom’s shoulder, a gesture spotted from across the room by the incandescent Shiv.This comes into fruition when Kendall is named successor, Ronan is his named second and three heads of Waystar Royco is classed as too many, so Shiv is pushed out. It’s reinforced throughout season four that Shiv isn’t taken seriously and treated differently to her brothers. When she arrives at Lukas’ Norwegian forest compound, he introduces his only female staff member as “oestrogen air freshener” before asking: “If I hug you will I get a lawsuit?”