Succession Sundays are soon coming to an end, but when exactly is the Succession finale and what can we expect from the last episodes of the Emmy-winning HBO hit?
Succession season 4 premiered on HBO and HBO Max on Sunday, March 26, and it's already prompted many questions for fans: Is Shiv pregnant (and is Tom the father)? What's going on with Roman and Gerri? Will the GoJo deal actually go through? And, most importantly, how will Succession end and who will take over the world of Waystar Royco now that Logan Roy is no longer CEO.
There's still plenty that needs clearing up in the Roy universe before the show's end, so here's when you should be marking your calendars for the Succession finale and everything we know about the final episode.
*Warning: season 4 spoilers ahead*
When is the 'Succession' finale?
A little Memorial Day Weekend treat, the Succession finale will air on HBO and HBO Max on Sunday, May 28 at 9pm EST. (Americans will be happy to have Monday off—heaven knows we'll probably need a whole day to recover from the ep.)
It will reportedly be the last Succession episode ever (creator Jesse Armstrong confirmed the fourth season would be the drama's last to The New Yorker back in February), but, at the very least, it will be a supersized edition. “It’s 90 minutes,” Succession’s composer Nicholas Britell—the maestro behind the show's exceedingly earwormy title theme—told Variety in early May. “It’s a huge episode — like a movie.”
And in more good news, the extended ep will be directed by executive producer Mark Mylod, who has helmed 13 episodes of the series, including the season 3 finale "All the Bells Say" (for which he won Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Series at the 2022 Directors Guild of America Awards) and that tensely tragic season 4 episode "Connor's Wedding," which chronicled the long-teased death of Logan Roy (Brian Cox) and how the seismic event affected his four children and his company at large.
How many more 'Succession' episodes are there?
Like previous seasons (except for the nine-episode third), Succession season 4 will have 10 episodes in total, with the seventh airing on Sunday, May 7. That means, at the time of publication, there are three episodes of Succession left. We'd say we were sad, but Gerri would just snap at us: “You might want to put down that fish taco. You’re getting your melancholy everywhere.”
As for deciding to end Succession after the fourth season, despite continued critical and commercial acclaim ("Connor's Wedding" drew a series' high of 2.3 million viewers, a record that the show beat the very next episode), Jesse Armstrong told The New Yorker: "It’s been a difficult decision, because the collaborations—with the cast, with my fellow-writers, with Nick Britell and Mark Mylod and the other directors—they’ve just been so good. And I feel like I’ve done the best work I can do, working with them."
"HBO has been generous and would probably have done more seasons, and they have been nice about saying, 'It’s your decision.' That’s nice, but it’s also a responsibility in the end—it feels quite perverse to stop doing it," Armstrong continued.
Catch Succession season 4 on Sundays at 9pm on HBO and HBO Max, and the series finale on Sunday, May 28.
