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Spoiler-free article for Succession Season 4
If all else fails, Logan Roy actor Brian Cox knows who he’d want to play if he could have another go atSuccession. The HBO series, which only recently dropped the first episode of Season 4, its highly-contested final run, has given its audience more than plain thrill and drama.Successionhas intertwined its corrupt vision of the American Dream, the capitalist ideology that underlines it, power play, hierarchy, and family politics, and blended all of it together in a pot of blackening familiar tension: a family one can neither love nor hate or escape.
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SuccessionStar Brian Cox Reveals His Favourite Character
At first glance, the entire Roy dynasty seems crippled with its need for approval, self-assertion, and dominion all at once. And while the patriarch Logan Roy plays the role of the absent father a bit too dramatically, Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Shiv (Sarah Snook), and Roman (Kieran Culkin) take a jab at the vacant throne in an elaborate show of viper-like cunning.
Among all the shows of strength and power, one might almost cast aside the naïve innocence of Matthew Macfadyen’s Tom for the fast-paced world of the siblings. But not Brian Cox – he sees himself in that character just as he sees the beauty in the complexity of Tom.
“I think if I was younger, I think Tom would be an interesting character to play. Because he’s so complicated and so driven, because of his relationship with my horrible daughter and how she treats him. And his innocence because he’s from Wisconsin, so he’s very sort of — he’s a country boy at heart. And it’s a very good role […] So of all the roles, that would be the most interesting one if I was, you know, 40 years younger.”
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Brian Cox’s role inSuccession, however, is the glue that keeps the show running. The vicious, precise, and cruelly direct Logan Roy has become the recipient of noteworthy awards like a Golden Globe in 2020 for Best Performance by an Actor and a Screen Actors Guild in 2022 for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble.
SuccessionSets the Bar High For Its Successors at HBO
HBO has been delivering consistently good television since the premiere ofThe Sopranos.Be it the epic fantasy seriesGame of Thrones, the bone-churningChernobyl, a masterpiece of satire withThe White Lotus, or the trauma-inducingEuphoria, HBO has adopted the motto: “go bold or go home” as its religion.The latest series,The Last of Us, turned more than just a few heads and its run withSuccessionremains impeccable to a fault.
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However, the flaw of every outstanding project that floats into our horizons is that every attempt at recreating the vision fails to impress. As such, there can only be one Soprano family and there can only be one Roy dynasty. Rarely ever has a follow-up to a critically acclaimed show been deemed worthy enough of its predecessor. HBO’s current decision to thus endSuccessionwith Season 4 has not yet been faced with the inevitable question of a spin-off, but if the studio considers the option, the bar will be high to match.
Successionis currently streaming on HBO Max.
Source:Us Weekly
Diya Majumdar
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Diya Majumdar is a Senior Content Writer at FandomWire with over 2000 published articles on the website. Since 2022, she has been working as an entertainment journalist with a special focus on films and pop culture.Among the countless genres and themes of Hollywood, the ones that particularly favor Diya’s tastes include Game of Thrones, DC, and well-aged thrillers and classics.
