“Succession” wasn’t going to leave anything on the table before closing out the series.Showrunner and creator Jesse Armstrong said in upcoming book “‘Succession’: Season Four: The Complete Scripts” (as excerpted by Vulture) that he was determined to do a “full-fat” final season instead of splitting up Season 4 into parts, like fellow HBO series such as “The Sopranos” or AMC series “Breaking Bad.”“Once season three was complete and aired, in December 2021, I got my fellow executive-producer–writers together […] to look at the alternative future-season shapes I’d written up on the walls: one final season of 10 episodes, or two of six or eight episodes,” Armstrong wrote.
“My sense was that we should do one last full-fat season rather than stretch it out,” Armstrong said.
“But I was wary of saying goodbye too fast to all the relationships and opportunities, of leaving creative money on the table, regretting…
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