Succession: Critics praise 'brutal' fourth and final season

The 4th and last play of Succession has received overwhelmingly affirmative reviews from TV critics.

The latest bid sees siblings Kendall, Shiv and Roman proceed to conflict for supremacy successful their media mogul begetter Logan Roy's company.

Empire, the Times and the Evening Standard each awarded it 5 stars, portion Variety described it arsenic a "brisk, brutal and hilarious last season".

Episodes volition beryllium disposable play from Sunday successful the US and Monday successful the UK.

This nonfiction does not see spoilers for play 4 of Succession.

"Based connected the 4 episodes I person seen, it has plentifulness of surprises, fanged vipers and toast-dropping shocks up its exquisite Tom Ford sleeve," wrote Carol Midgley successful the Times.

The siblings "seem other venal and arrogant this series, if each spot arsenic comic arsenic ever", she wrote. "They deliberation they tin outfox their begetter and beryllium large players connected the planetary stage, yet they person hardly proved they tin food a portion of toast.

"So you tin tuck into the accustomed delicious snake pie... but if you deliberation this sounds similar much of the aforesaid old, aforesaid old, you'll beryllium underestimating what is shaping up to beryllium a long, glorious goodbye."

Succession is 1 of the astir critically-acclaimed bid of the past decade, and has been showered with awards including respective Emmys, Golden Globes and Baftas.

The latest bid picks up aft play three's cliffhanger finale, which saw the 3 astir salient siblings unopen retired by their father, played by Brian Cox, aft helium struck a woody with tech mogul Lukas Matsson.

"It's highly satisfying to spot the trio of Kendall, Shiv, and Roman moving unneurotic for a alteration - and to spot them clasp their ain against the monolith that is their father," said Collider's Samantha Coley.

Jeremy Strong, Kieran Culkin, Sarah Snook, Nicholas Braun and Matthew Macfadyen each reprise their roles successful the latest play alongside Cox.

She said the bid was returning "to a premix of lamentation and alleviation among adjacent - perchance particularly - the astir devoted fans, who hardly person the spot to past 1 much circular of the densest, cleverest, astir emotionally pulverising play connected TV."

The 4th play "settles into a superb array of the show's signature strengths: Machiavellian plotting, comic rationalizing and withering put-downs," said The Wrap's Bob Strauss.

"The full pack is astatine their calculating best, with a survivalist urgency to the concern and affectional stakes astatine hand," helium added.

Empire's John Nugent said: "Impeccably scripted arsenic ever, it is inactive uncommon to ticker tv truthful dense, truthful richly layered that watching it again instantly seems the lone sensible option.

"Each condemnation feels loaded with craft, from its delicious saltiness (there are astatine slightest 3 c-bombs successful the archetypal occurrence alone) close down to its marrow-deep quality work."

The dialog was besides praised by Gerard Gilbert of iNews, who wrote: "I astir consciousness atrocious for the cast, who volition astir apt ne'er again get the accidental to utter specified gorgeously well-crafted dialogue.

"All recognition to them for ne'er over-selling lines whose throwaway quality is portion of their hilarious effect."

Variety's Joshua Alston said: "While the play takes a spot longer to drawback occurrence than its predecessors, erstwhile the shady dealing begins successful earnest, Succession is much aggravated than ever.

"With the bid finale successful sight, the amusement has a afloat vessel of state and an 800-pound gorilla's ft connected the pedal."

There was somewhat little enthusiasm from the Telegraph's Ed Cumming, who wrote: "You're not allowed to criticise Succession astatine North London meal parties, but, susurration it, it's not perfect."

He added: "With the extremity successful sight, however, Succession is escaped to purpose for the landing, and those of america who person been wishing the Roys would get a determination connected volition not beryllium disappointed.

"Everything Succession's fans emotion is here: the acerb dialogue, the backstage jets, the fearfulness its characters consciousness whenever they are forced to brushwood up against the existent world."

Joe's Rory Cashin said: "Each and each occurrence is laced with the expected acceptable of exquisite one-liners, perfected performances and melodramatic rug-pulls that you'd expect from Succession."

"Of people it's each brilliant," wrote the Evening Standard's Hamish MacBain. "This is simply a amusement connected imperial, strident, impossibly assured form: a amusement that knows its assemblage is waiting with baited enactment for an extremity that is nigh, and that large things are bound to hap earlier that end.

"Time to beryllium back, savour... and steer good wide of the bureau watercooler and your WhatsApp groups should you beryllium adjacent a mates of days precocious watching an episode."