Succession

The Roy family is back for a fourth and final season, and everyone came out swinging. Let the humiliations begin.

I’m “Substack meets Masterclass meets the Economist meets The New Yorker.”) Connor Roy (Alan Ruck) is in a funk all episode because he has been told he needs to spend another $100 million on his presidential campaign just to maintain his current 1 percent in the polls. Bridget is “a firecracker” and “crunchy peanut butter,” who at one point sneaks off with him and has “a bit of a rummage” in his pants. It is “like a private members club but for everyone.” It is “an indispensable bespoke information hub” with “high-calorie info-snacks.” It “has the ethos of a nonprofit but the path to crazy margins.” (Tag yourself! brand that Logan would never honor (despite Tom’s promise to the Pierces of “a little tummy-tickle on culture”). (Who is also possibly his lover and the future mother of his child? (“I don’t want to be restricted to my favorites,” she says, a tossed-off remark that says a lot about Shiv’s whole vibe.) They bicker a bit about how Tom and Cousin Greg ( She insists there is no way to back out of her tentative deal with Logan and groans that she is tired of hearing about numbers, while sneakily steering her new suitors toward an offer well beyond the $7 billion Waystar was planning to spend. Shiv wants primarily to be taken seriously so that Nan will stop thinking of the Roy kids as “fake fruit for display purposes only.” The younger Roys know that they can offer Nan assurances about preserving the P.G.M. What eventually rouses Logan on this deeply depressing evening is what is happening across the country in Los Angeles, where Shiv, Kendall (Jeremy Strong) and Roman (Kieran Culkin) are plotting revenge for the vicious way Logan blocked their recent coup attempt. After betraying his wife and allying with Logan Roy (Brian Cox), Tom is starting to realize that his father-in-law perhaps values him mainly as a way to keep tabs on his rebellious kids. Everyone always needs to iron out a few more details, get a few more stragglers from the board into the fold, toss in a few more sweeteners for the major shareholders, et cetera.

Shiv, Kendall, and Roman convene at a modern mountainside home in the 'Succession' season four premiere.

Lest we forget, these are the children of fictional media mogul [Logan Roy](https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/succession-season-3-all-about-that-hamptons-mansion), who [Forbes](https://www.forbes.com/web-stories/how-rich-is-the-roy-family-on-succession/) estimates is worth a whopping (fictional) $18 billion. At 20,000 square feet, this over-the-top property encompasses an owner’s suite that could serve as its own apartment, plus five guest suites, countless amenities, and a striking silhouette. In real life, the six bedroom, 18 bathroom house known as the San Onofre estate was built by real estate developer [beyond wealthy](https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/succession-filming-locations-you-can-visit). Inside, fan favorite character Roman Roy (Kieran Culkin) is yelling at a Zoom meeting on the television, in a living room surrounded by high glass walls, some fully open to the outdoors, looking out on an infinity pool and sweeping mountain views beyond that. [the hit HBO drama](https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/how-the-high-powered-worlds-of-hbos-succession-are-mastered).

In the premiere of its fourth and final season, the HBO show offered familiar beats but also a hint of a new direction.

The [script](https://assets.scriptslug.com/live/pdf/scripts/succession-101-celebration-2018.pdf) for the show’s Season 1 premiere, “Celebration,” at one point describes Logan’s entrance into a room as changing its “center of gravity.” He simply is the game—not just the nucleus but also the force by which every other character is defined. Is Nan Pierce, the neutrals-clad, left-leaning matriarch of Pierce, also the ghost of Shiv future? Not in the least; it’s too early in the season for that kind of thing. [weighed his mortality](https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/11/succession-season-3-episode-5/620701/), taking a lonely walk in the park while flanked by his “best pal” and fixer, Colin. This is not to be uncharitable about a show that’s consistently more watchable, more bleakly pleasurable than almost any of its peers. In tonight’s episode, a scene that could have been a devastating autopsy of Shiv and Tom’s marriage was cut off at the head by Shiv’s refusal to participate. I can appreciate the layers of societal critique within this approach, the show’s clear indictment of how the outsized influence of a few emotionally stunted men can contaminate not just their own families but also the entire world. It directly restaged a number of events from the show’s pilot: Logan again reluctantly celebrated a birthday and Kendall again overbid on a media property in order to prove his business acumen to himself and his father. “Tom, I think we could talk things to death, but actually, we both just made some mistakes, and I think a whole lot of crying and bullshit is not gonna help that,” she said. Narratively, Succession is also as circular as a sitcom: It has a tendency to reset itself rather than shake things up in unexpected fashion. (Ask yourself whether Kendall, an adorable dodo princeling, would really use internecine in a sentence, or whether you’ve ever actually heard a person say that word out loud.)

A lot happened in the season premiere of "Succession," kicking off the two-time Emmy-winning HBO show's final flight of episodes, including the ongoing feud ...

Things are so strained as the season begins that Logan’s assistant and now out-of-the-closet girlfriend, Kerry (Zoe Winters), tried to arrange a birthday call between the trio and their dad, only to trigger an awkward negotiation about whether him texting an interest in talking to them would be sufficient. Because to paraphrase Logan, when “Succession’s” good, it’s good. If that wasn’t wildly eventful other than the Shiv-Tom marital strife, stay tuned.

'Succession' stars Sarah Snook and Matthew Macfadyen discuss their characters' confrontation, or lack thereof, in the season four premiere.

“She shuts it down, and it’s quite sad.” (Tom himself replies, “That makes me sad,” when Shiv suggests they end their marriage.) Taking her hand, he concurs: “Yeah, we gave it a go.” “We gave it a go,” Shiv tells Tom. He challenges Shiv — “Do you really want to get into a full accounting of all the pain in our marriage? ‘Cause if you do, I can do that” — but when he does, she immediately moves on to saying they should formalize their separation. Do you do all the positions with your models, Tom?” I think probably Shiv would be just as lonely.” But they don’t talk about that, and in keeping with the dynamics of their relationship, they also haven’t really addressed Tom’s siding with Logan in the play that froze her, Roman and Kendall out. After their dad (with an assist from their mom) effectively cut them out of the family business at the end of season three, the siblings celebrate seemingly getting one over on Logan after outbidding him for the rival Pierce media empire. “There’s been no postmortem at all.” Did you get buff for the models, Tom? Do you bring them back here and do the positions?

'The Munsters,' the fourth and final-season premiere of 'Succession,' is full of maneuvering among the Roy family, Nan Pierce's many headaches, ...

Yet in “The Munsters,” his kids finally got one over on him, to the degree that he is the one who calls them on his birthday, instead of the reverse. [the very best](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_gHzyalSwI) to ever have pulled this trick.) And some of it is just mirroring a pilot that featured Logan nearly dying. only for the episode to reveal that Logan stays up late at night watching ATN and calling poor Cyd to complain about what’s on his television. And the episode brings it up enough times to remind you the election is imminent. It adds to the feel of a production of King Lear that’s both funnier and more horrible than you expected. The scene where he’s trying to hype himself up to tell Logan he slept with a girl in the guest bedroom while Logan grows ever-more-fucking furious at the rapidly degenerating Pierce deal is probably the funniest of the episode. I have a case of the vapors!” The world is ending, and Connor and Willa just found out. So for the moment, Tom is riding high, even getting a cryptic reassurance from Logan that his position within ATN might possibly, sort of, kind of in a way remain the same if he and Shiv split up. (Whoever the newly mentioned Jimenez is, they seem to be the Democratic nominee for president.) And the idea the Siblings Roy abandoned in favor of purchasing Pierce was originally hers. As such, in this episode, Kendall and Roman largely cede the floor to their sister when it comes time to make the Pierce deal. The obvious question to ask at the end of season three was: Just how long can the alliance among Kendall, Roman, and Shiv hold?

The first episode of Succession season four sees Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Shiv (Sarah Snook), and Roman (Kieran Culkin) aligned in their quest to take down ...

In non-business dealings, Tom and Shiv seem to be at the end of the road when it comes to their marriage. But will the end of Tom and Shiv's union affect Tom's standing with Logan? “What was the disaster in Maine?” wonders Lawson. Lawson appreciated the scene in which they appear to call it quits. For your own questions, comments, and final season theories, please email [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]). “It fails ten minutes into the episode,” Lawson notes, while pointing out it's shrewd satire of “Rather than deal with any of the way more pressing issues in their lives, they're like ‘Oh, let's start a made-up, fake, bullshit company that has no way of going anywhere,” notes Murphy. “Did she run over one of the Bushes in Kennebunkport on her wood-sided motor boat?” The abandoned business also servers as table setting for the rest of the season. The first episode of Succession season four sees Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Shiv (Sarah Snook), and Roman (Kieran Culkin) aligned in their quest to take down Logan (Brian Cox), delivering the one-two punch of skipping Logan's birthday party and scooping Pierce Media Group up under his very nose. “It's such a rich people thing to be like, 'Oh, I don't care about money. Either way, it seems Nan Pierce needs the money if only to help cover “Anne's disaster in Maine”—whatever that may be.

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As the Roy family's fleet of helicopters land for their final outing, there's no point in resisting this sumptuous programme. There really is nothing else ...

Based on the glimmering episodes I’ve seen so far, Succession intends to go out on a peak that people will still be talking about in 20 or 30 years. Yes, I can see that it is sumptuous, dense and brilliant, and that at its best it has some of the finest dialogue not just on TV now but on TV ever. It’s great that it’s a lot of quite nasty, unlikable people being funny. It feels clever in the same way that putting your hand up and saying the right answer in a classroom is clever: in a smug and self-satisfied way. But, sometimes, watching it I feel as if I’m being cornered at a party by someone telling me about a non-fiction book I “have to read” while I watch other people laughing and having fun. I know it’s a thinly veiled portrait of the Murdochs and it’s whip-smart and Machiavellian.

Succession star Jeremy Strong warns about dark storms ahead for Kendall Roy in season 4 and why he advocated for his character's story to end.

I actually feel like, in the beginning of this season, Kendall is a bit in the back seat of the car, and happy to be in a band. There’s something about the allure of newspapers that he both wants to compete with his father and dominate his father, but he also wants to be in his father’s footsteps. This is a nice moment of connection with his brother and sister, and the moment in the river where things are sort of placid and calm… I went to my house directly from the airport, took a long walk, sat on the beach, watched Kendall go down with the sun, and said, “Adios.” But he’s still coming back from the ropes of what happened in Italy, and happy to be along for this ride with his brother and sister. Kendall is aware that he has a sort of bottomless hole inside of him that he needs to fill, that in the past, he’s filled with drug use and substance abuse. What was it like to tap into that moment of victory for the siblings? There’s a lot of room for it to spiral, but for now, it’s a solid position. He’s going to continue trying to fill it that way, which I see as a sort of tragedy. There’s very little left of him to put the crown on. They sort of do a fireman’s carry out of that scene, and it continues into the beginning of this next season, where he’s leaning on them. For his part, Strong loves the premiere’s subtle use of Kendall — especially since it’s not going to last for long as the final season chugs along.

Three actors playing siblings in "Succession." Jeremy Strong, left, Sarah Snook and Kieran Culkin as Roy siblings Kendall, Shiv and Roman in the fourth season ...

“He’s been put into this position of I’m the different one and people don’t take me seriously so that also means that they’re not going to take me seriously if I need help.” “He recognizes that if he utilizes her need for him to bond with her in that moment, then she won’t go and he can continue to keep her imprisoned in this emotional and financial abuse. And so in that moment, not only does he defeat her confidence and ability to be an adult differentiated being, but then he starts to triangulate her. “He shows a lot of mommy issues throughout the show,” she added. “When you look at him, there’s a part of him that still seems very childlike and it plays out in a lot of his choices.” The only way to get ahead and survive in this family is to bond with Logan.” If even a new member of the family is that easily [swayed], you can see why the siblings all do this to each other all the time. She seems to only recognize what she should do in relationships that are dishonest and manipulative, so she replays these trauma bonds that she has in her family with her partner. (He once dumped someone for saying “awesome” twice in conversation with his father.) “In a healthy relationship, if work is getting super toxic, you’re able to say ‘Hey, my family is suffering so I need to take a step back,’” said Earnshaw. He makes him feel like he should be the man of the house and because of that, he can easily impact Kendall’s ego.” “He’s never had any healthy relationships modeled to him so he doesn’t have a pattern to replicate,” said Earnshaw. “That plays out [in the battle to be named successor], but it’s really ‘I want to be loved by this man.’ And no matter what they do, it never works.”

But in typical “Succession” fashion, the confrontation between the estranged couple happens without a true confrontation. Returning home from the West Coast ...

See our [latest prediction champs](https://www.goldderby.com/best-prediction-scores/awards/league-data/). [the 2023 Emmy nominees through July 12](https://www.goldderby.com/leagues/) [Make your predictions](https://www.goldderby.com/leagues/) at Gold Derby now. Speak up and share your huffy opinions in our [famous forums](https://www.goldderby.com/forums/) where 5,000 showbiz leaders lurk every day to track latest awards buzz. Download our free and easy app for [Apple/iPhone devices](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1460576753) or [Android (Google Play)](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pmc.goldDerby) to compete against legions of other fans plus our experts and editors for best prediction accuracy scores. It was really fun to yell at Matthew and have him yell at me. In the final moments of the “Succession” Season 4 premiere, “The Munsters,” Tom and Shiv officially decide to end their marriage. A teaser for the upcoming season showed the pair engaging in numerous arguments, and Snook [HBO](https://www.goldderby.com/t/hbo/). But Tom declines, despite having little closure about their relationship or his decision to side with Logan over Shiv. “It was really fun this season because Matthew and I got to explore different aspects of the relationship between them. But in typical “Succession” fashion, the confrontation between the estranged couple happens without a true confrontation. She’s throwing out barbs and saying, ‘We should break up.

In Wambsgans Watch we assess the state of Tom Wambsgans' (Matthew Macfadyen) relationships at the end of the season four premiere 'The Munsters,' including ...

If you’re not a subscriber yet, [click here to get started](https://subs.nymag.com/magazine/subscribe/official-subscription.html?utm_source=editorial&utm_medium=article_inline&utm_campaign=succession_vulturearticles#/). In his heart, Tom knows he is absolutely a disgusting brother, and he loathes this about himself, so he channels all those negative feelings toward clueless sexual rummager Greg. If Tom hadn’t mentioned his drink with Naomi to Shiv, the Roy family Rebel Alliance would have found out about the plan to snag PGM indirectly from Greg. It’s tempting to say it’s tragic that his marriage to Shiv has ended with a long, ambivalent sigh. The subtext of Logan’s comment is that Tom should tread lightly. It’s apparent by the end of this episode, after Tom and Shiv basically agree to get a divorce because Shiv would rather give up on their marriage than actually work through the pain they’ve caused each other, that they’ve never really discussed Tom’s betrayal and never will. Because even though he seems to have his professional shit sort-of together on the surface, Tom knows that on the inside he’s still very much a Cousin Greg. He rings her up to tell her he had a drink with Naomi Pierce, former girlfriend of Kendall and member of the family that owns a media company Logan once wanted to acquire. In the final shot of that episode, Tom places his hands on Shiv’s clavicle, which can be interpreted in two ways: either he’s comforting his wife, or his grip is sliding ever closer to Shiv’s throat. Like everyone on Succession, Tom’s macro-objective is to hold on to as much money, power, and clout as he can. Because he’s doing for Shiv what he did for Logan at the end of season three when he let him know three of his kids were about to ambush him: He’s letting his wife know that her dad plans to make another run at acquiring the Pierces’ media conglomerate. Tom has a real skill for saying words that don’t actually express what he means, and it’s on full display this episode, starting with his phone call to Shiv.

[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Succession Season 4, Premiere Episode, “The Munsters.”] Succession offered viewers plenty to ponder upon its ...

It appears that this Season 4 version of Greg is sort of that “boo souls” result from their Season 3 finale conversation. And as for the ways in which they’re disgusting, Braun adds, “It’s Greg-Tom disgusting. So Greg is basically right up there. When we meet him Tom is heading up ATN. As for what viewers can anticipate from the pair’s workplace dynamic, Braun teases, “Greg is definitely several rungs up on the ladder. [Succession](https://www.tvinsider.com/show/succession) offered viewers plenty to ponder upon its fourth and final season return on [HBO](https://www.tvinsider.com/network/hbo) and [ HBO Max](https://www.tvinsider.com/network/hbo-max), among which includes Greg ( [Nicholas Braun](https://www.tvinsider.com/people/nicholas-braun)) and Tom’s ( [Matthew Macfadyen](https://www.tvinsider.com/people/matthew-macfadyen)) new duo nickname, “the disgusting brothers.”

Succession star Matthew MacFadyen actor opens up about the final moments on set of the HBO show and his character Tom Wambsgans.

He views his career like the ocean, where the lulls of looking for the next right project are followed by the crest of a really good moment; the trick is to wait for the wave to come. “I love that they’re quite bloody-minded and gladiatorial in that we shoot a 10- or 12-page scene in one continuous take and then do that eight or nine times over,” he explains. “It started to feel like it was more definitive as we got closer to the end, and I trust Jesse and his team to decide how to go out on a high,” he says. “It was pretty brave and cool that he was willing to be the fall guy for the family, and [last season] when he sensed that Shiv [Sarah Snook] was disappointed that he got off the hook, and in fact maybe wanted him to go to jail, it was a death by a thousand cuts,” he explains. He didn’t have the chance to explain his reasons to Shiv, or to have the chance to tell her that there wasn’t anything he did that she wouldn’t have done. He says the cast “sort of knew the end might be coming” and that Armstrong had spoken to them to lay the groundwork for the end while still leaving room to change his mind. “It was sort of awful,” he says. [ breakdown of the show’s single successful marriage](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/succession-season-4-episode-1-shiv-tom-1235360644/); Macfadyen is most moved by his character’s attempts to process the abbreviated split. Despite his often outwardly cheery demeanor and constant quips (episode 401’s riff on Greg’s date’s handbag nearly rivals the great deck shoes castigation of 103), Tom hasn’t been a stranger to melancholy. “In a word, I thought it was great,” he says of the season-three [cliffhanger](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/succession-recap-season-4-premiere-1235353506/) that saw Tom cutting his wife out of her family’s company. [Matthew Macfadyen](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/matthew-macfadyen/) is nothing like Tom Wambsgans. But now, as the high-octane family drama [launches its fourth season](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/succession-season-4-episode-1-shiv-tom-1235360644/), Wambsgans has climbed the ranks to become billionaire Logan Roy’s double-crossing right-hand man — all much to Macfadyen’s delight.

The comment came from fellow actor Nicholas Braun voicing his doubt that any of the “Succession” actors will be cast together in a future project as everyone ...

[announced](https://www.indiewire.com/2023/02/succession-ending-season-4-hbo-1234812986/) in February that the fourth season will be its last. Stop telling me you don’t want to be with me but that you still sort of love me,” Culkin quipped, before adding of onscreen patriarch Brian Cox, “I think Brian had mixed feelings about it, too. All I know is I feel kind of down. Culkin concluded of his own take on the series ending, “I haven’t had a fucking moment to think about how I feel about it. “I was very upset,” Snook said. [Kieran Culkin](https://www.indiewire.com/t/kieran-culkin/) was a sad slime puppy ahead of the [“Succession” final season](https://www.indiewire.com/2023/03/succession-season-4-episode-1-review-the-munsters-spoilers-1234821786/).

The thing is, Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Roman (Kieran Culkin), and Shiv (Sarah Snook) have all had their differences over the past three seasons, leaving ...

At the same time that it's exciting to see Kendall, Roman, and Shiv back together, it's a bit sad to see an old dude alone on his birthday. Later on in the episode, Kendall, Roman, and Shiv outsmart their father in a bidding war for the acquisition of Pierce Global Media, a longstanding media company. In this first episode of Season 4, Logan is in a state of deep contemplation and emotion, perhaps more than we've ever seen from him in the past. At the end of the season, Kendall breaks down to Roman and Shiv, finally confessing to killing a waiter in the car accident during his sister's wedding. Roman and Shiv joined forces with their father after Kendall dropped a major bombshell about Logan at the end of Season 2, creating a stark divide between the siblings. Sure, holiday gatherings and impromptu yacht trips might physically unite the family for a moment, but it's never until war is declared on the Roys that they actually slam their skulls together and get to work.

It's clear from the jump that Shiv and Tom are no longer pretending to be a happy couple. A tense phone call in the first scene suggests they're on a trial ...

Shiv stops by to grab some new clothes for her hotel room, only to find Tom wandering out of the bedroom in his little pajama V-neck. Tom is also ready to call it quits, having come around to the fact that his wife would rather use him as a business tool than grant him a shred of dignity or care. It’s clear from the jump that Shiv and Tom are no longer pretending to be a happy couple. Shiv wants to divorce Tom, as is usually the inclination when your husband tells your dad that you’re planning a hostile takeover of his company. [Connor and Willa](https://www.thecut.com/2021/12/willa-connor-roy-proposal.html)? [Gerri and Roman](https://www.thecut.com/2022/02/succession-kieran-culkin-j-smith-cameron-kiss.html)?

Succession returns with a crunchy peanut butter of a premiere for its fourth and final season as the Roys prepare to do battle one last time for the Waystar ...

Finally, we come to the last of the Roy children. So, in the midst of Logan’s furious dealings with his children, in the middle of a high-stakes acquisition bid, Greg fails to read the room once again and asks his uncle for a private chat. Some of the finest acting I’ve ever seen, and this in a show filled with brilliant, powerful performances. When Shiv says it’s time to move on from the marriage, all Tom can say is “uh huh.” He tried to talk to her about his feelings but she shut him down, as usual. Logan’s top security guy / bodyguard Colin (Scott Nicholson) informs Greg that he’ll need to search her on the way out and Greg decides he’ll just hang back rather than break the news to his date. Later, Tom approaches Greg to tell him he’s the laughing stock of the entire party for bringing such a grotesque plebe to the private affair. The show opened up on Logan’s 80th birthday, so it’s only fitting that now—three seasons and nearly five years later—we get to watch him grit his teeth at “Happy Birthday To You” being sung by “the monsters” as he calls his too-happy guests. They’re in the process of starting up a new media company called The Hundred which is, according to Kendall, “Substack meets masterclass meets the Economist meets The New Yorker.” It’s a “private members club but for everyone” and “an indispensable bespoke information hub” that offers “high-calorie info-snacks” with the “ethos of a nonprofit but the path to crazy margins.” And so The Hundred is dropped like one of Kendall’s girlfriends and off they rush to buy a dying legacy media brand. She’s walking away with a ridiculous amount of money and a punch to Logan’s kidney. They meet with Nan who is every bit as conniving and money-and-status-obsessed as the Roy family, but too concerned with her image to just admit it. Fast forward to the even of the final sale of Waystar RoyCo in the Season 4 premiere.

The $83 million Los Angeles property is owned by Austin Russell, the founder and CEO of Luminar Technologies.

Russell is estimated to be worth about [$1.6 billion](https://www.forbes.com/profile/austin-russell/?sh=2a57ebc96aa8) according to Forbes, as of April 2022. Luminar stock subsequently [tumbled](https://www.fool.com/investing/2023/03/22/why-luminars-stock-is-plummeting-today/). Russell founded Luminar when he was a 17-year-old [high school student](https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/03/luminar-ipo-mints-a-25-year-old-autonomous-driving-billionaire.html). [born in 1995](https://www.wsj.com/articles/where-a-young-billionaire-learned-some-old-lessons-11616212826) in Newport Beach, California, has been hailed as something of a wunderkind. [trending downwards](https://www.google.com/finance/quote/LAZR:NASDAQ?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwinq8SCivz9AhWJTsAKHfFjD-MQ3ecFegQIGhAY&window=5Y), hitting a low of $3.95 in January this year. One of its rivals includes Velodyne, an industry leader that gained its edge as the [first company to commercialize](https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/first-mover-advantage-gives-velodyne-the-edge-says-top-analyst) lidar for autonomous cars in 2007. A number of companies, [including Volvo](https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/6/21248415/volvo-luminar-lidar-self-driving-highway-pilot-spa2), who has partnered with Luminar, have already incorporated the technology into their vehicles. The company said the weak results, falling on the lower end of its guidance range, were “due to timing of program and service revenue recognition.” Its quarterly net loss was $144.8 million or $0.40 per share, nearly two times higher than the Zacks Consensus Estimate of a [$0.22 loss](https://www.zacks.com/stock/news/2059304/luminar-lazr-q4-earnings-preview-high-costs-to-mar-margins) per share. [Starchitect](https://palisadesnews.com/ardie-tavangarian-mansion-for-sale-in-palisades-for-27-million/)” Ardie Tavangarian, the mansion features a [plush home theater](https://www.loveproperty.com/gallerylist/114234/a-26-year-old-billionaire-bought-this-83-million-megamansion), spa complex, two panic rooms, and even a retractable roof for stargazing. Last week, Goldman Sachs downgraded Luminar, moving it [from neutral to sell](https://uk.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/luminar-technologies-cut-at-goldman-sachs-on-margin-headwinds-432SI-2959587) with a $5 price target, due to margin concerns. stunning.New Amazon Fire TVs](https://www.amazon.com/b/?asc_campaign=InlineMobile&asc_refurl=https://qz.com/succession-season-4-premiere-austin-russell-mansion-1850268981&asc_source=&ie=UTF8&node=8521791011&tag=kinjaquartzpromo-20) [light detection and ranging](https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/lidar.html),” is a type of remote sensing method that uses lasers to generate information about three-dimensional space.

Nan Pierce's home in 'Succession' season 4, episode 1 was shot at what appears to be Eric Schmidt's $30 million Montecito mansion.

[@kristytipsy](https://twitter.com/Kristytipsy/status/1640231779310403584) identified the location shown as Nan Pierce’s home on the show as the Peabody Estate in Santa Barbara, also known as [ Villa Solana](https://robbreport.com/shelter/homes-for-sale/slideshow/10-best-homes-currently-market-southern-california/39-million-santa-barbara-compound/). The property includes 11 acres of land sitting on a hilltop with magnificent ocean and mountain views, and the grounds are a lush collection of palm trees, lemon trees, pomegranate trees, and more. Amid the intense negotiating taking place, Shiv at least still took a moment to compliment Nan (Cherry Jones) on the exquisite estate—the filming location of which has since been identified as a $30 million California mansion belonging to a former tech CEO. The 22,000-square-foot main house comes in at five bedrooms and includes unique design touches like 17th-century French oak paneling and white Alabama marble; there’s also a separate guest house. [Wall Street Journal](https://www.wsj.com/articles/eric-schmidt-montecito-home-11599600051), for the price of $30.8 million—well below the $57.5 million it was [ listed for in 2012](https://robbreport.com/shelter/homes-for-sale/historic-solana-estate-hits-the-market-for-40-million-2810996/). [Succession](https://robbreport.com/tag/succession/) is back, baby, and [season 4](https://robbreport.com/lifestyle/news/succession-season-4-1234728134/) opened with a bang of [stealth wealth](https://robbreport.com/lifestyle/news/succession-billions-details-1234808621/) à la Kendall’s unmarked baseball cap, sprawling vistas that are ignored in lieu of furious phone calls and secretive huddles, and enough [creative uses of the word “fuck”](https://robbreport.com/lifestyle/news/hbo-succession-season-4-gift-bags-fuck-off-1234821024/) to power a small country.

While patricide plan B gets underway, the leggy princeling 'rummages to fruition' at his uncle's superbly squirm-inducing party. Welcome back, Roy-alists!

That sepia title sequence was subtly tweaked, with a shot added of the StarGo app (complete with slow loading). With Logan and his lieutenants at the other end of a phoneline, he was on the back foot for once. [Grey Gardens](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/aug/14/grey-gardens-anniversary-hamptons-documentary), going Mano a Nano”. Their financing was “robust”, but they wouldn’t “take your properties and roll them in the dirt” like evil pater. When Shiv returned to their Broadway apartment to collect some clothes, she and Tom quietly agreed they had reached the end of the road. He tried to lighten the mood by getting his inner circle to give him a “roasting”, but, understandably, they were all too terrified. The contrast between the genteel Pierces, who pretend not to care about money, and the venal Roys, who care about little else, was beautifully portrayed once again. Not to be confused with the gimmicky cricket tournament, this was “a one-stop info shop for smart people”. “I feel like we’re in the middle of a bidding war,” said the pearl-clutching matriarch Nan Pierce (Cherry Jones). Before she was ejected, she and Greg found time for a fumble in a guest bedroom. How about marrying underneath the Statue of Liberty with a brass band and assorted hoopla? His sole confidantes were his “friend, assistant and adviser” Kerry (Zoe Winters) and his bodyguard, Colin (Scott Nicholson).

'Succession''s season-four premiere undermined the Burberry empire in one swift monologue after Cousin Greg brought a random date and Tom and the other Roys ...

Well, it turns out Tom felt that Bridget’s “ludicrously capacious bag” (big bags are for us peasants; the rich don’t need to carry anything around, that’s what assistants are for) that she presumably filled with “flat shoes for the subway” (both orthopedic footwear and public, eco-friendly transportation are for us peasants) or “a lunch pail” (a mid-day meal, especially one brought from home, is also for us peasants) was so “monstrous … And for that reason, this sizable, conspicuous bag was the perfect choice for Greg’s date to tote — she, and maybe even by extension Greg, will never be one of them. That she was one of them — one of the elite. That she knew, and decided to ignore, the value of the dollar. Bridget’s bag, on the other hand, is immediately identifiable, which in turn makes it gauche, tacky, and completely undesirable to the one percent. Upon her arrival, a single up-and-down glance is enough to send Logan’s assistant into a one-percent tizzy, and she pulls Greg aside to let him know that this party, thrown in honor of one of the richest men in the world, was, in fact, not a “fucking Shake Shack.” Noted.

From Logan's fate to the future of the Roy family kids, we're reflecting on what could lie ahead in the final episodes.

That gullible nature could get him in trouble and continue to set him back to the point where he ends up where the show began, back home with his mother, estranged from his wealthy family. Sure, Willa benefits from Connor’s money and it helps his image to have a woman on his arm, but Season 3 teased a growing bond between the pair when she stood up for him at Kendall’s ( [Jeremy Strong](https://www.tvinsider.com/people/jeremy-strong)) garish birthday celebration. And considering his early win over Logan this season, we’re nervous about the low that may be lingering around the corner. Is that for the best? That support may be wavering with Connor’s proposal of a flashy wedding, which has been teased in the trailers for the season. Even with his newfound status as Tom’s right-hand guy, he’s still floundering in the high-class environment if Logan’s party is any indication. As sad as we are to imagine it, Kendall isn’t safe from potential trauma. “I’ve got my f**king suspicions.” By episode’s end, Logan is sitting in a lounge chair at home where he’s tuned into the news. If that puts Tom and Shiv back in close proximity, laying the groundwork for a new dynamic, perhaps there’s a chance they don’t walk away from the relationship after all. “We can’t know but I’ve got my suspicions,” Logan said to the man. [Sarah Snook](https://www.tvinsider.com/people/sarah-snook)) and Tom ( [Matthew Macfadyen](https://www.tvinsider.com/people/matthew-macfadyen)) are not good for each other, and their marriage was toxic at best, but there’s some part of them that loves each other, and that much was obvious in their moving breakup and divorce decision. [Justin Lupe](https://www.tvinsider.com/people/justine-lupe)) and the eldest Roy sibling, Connor ( [Alan Ruck](https://www.tvinsider.com/people/alan-ruck)), may have a mutual understanding when it comes to their equally beneficial relationship, but his desire to remain in the political conversation appears to be laying some cracks in their otherwise rock-solid foundation.