Thread by @thetimes

Does the third season of #Succession successfully follow up on what is arguably the best cliffhanger scene ever written?

"It is as much of a venomous joy as last time," writes @CarolMidgley
★★★★★ thetimes.co.uk/article/succes…

Intra-family savagery, high-stakes corporate warfare, unimaginable privilege and the darkest of humour: that one scene had all the ingredients which have made Succession such a runaway hit.

“The little f***er’s gone and done it, bless him,” says Brian Cox. “He’s beginning to learn how to succeed in this horrific world.”

Cox and the rest of the cast spoke to @joshglancy about the new season.
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For Kieran Culkin, whose brother Macaulay struggled with childhood fame, the Roys’ wounds are just different versions of our own.

“I’ve never understood the phrase ‘dysfunctional family’. Move the word dysfunctional out of there. That’s every family.” thetimes.co.uk/article/succes…

Culkin's character Roman, you’ll be delighted to know, has some cracking scenes with Gerri, with whom, as we saw last series, he has a weird dominatrix sexual dynamic.

And Tom and Greg’s toxic bromance will get … a lot more toxic. “We go to quite dark places this season,” Matthew Macfadyen says. “The axe is hanging over a lot of their heads.”

Who in the Roy family would have fared worst in lockdown?

“Tom,” says Nicholas Braun. “He is such a needy, needs-people person. He would struggle.” And the best? “Logan.” thetimes.co.uk/article/nichol…

For Kendall, the new season will address the question of what comes next now that he has finally crossed his own personal Rubicon. Satisfaction is unlikely.

“What do you do if you’ve taken the city but everyone has left?” says Jeremy Strong. thetimes.co.uk/article/succes…

“I don’t think I’ve ever cared more or put more into a piece of work — it means so much to me,” Strong says of Succession. “I feel like I’m getting to play one of the great antiheroes of our time.” thetimes.co.uk/article/jeremy…