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The week in which Successionpremieres season this weekly section is done alone. Because the week in which Succession premieres season the best series of the week is Succession and if it is not Succession I do not know because I am watching Succession and do not bother me with nonsense, fuck off.

Fortunately, that happened this week. Unfortunately, this is the last time that will happen. The fourth season of the HBO series Max is the last. The Roys leave.

They will leave, yes, through the front door. We didn't expect less but maybe we should expect more. HBO's policy of sending series journalists several episodes in advance has made an exception for Succession. The argument for not disclosing material not yet issued, even if it includes strict confidentiality contracts, is that the plot of the series is going to give us very crazy surprises. So let's not rule out that next week Succession will return to this space. And so on until it's over.

Without being a massive megahit (because almost no series is anymore), Succession is a phenomenon. A lot is said and written about her. The first episode of the fourth season, the only one we have been able to see, has generated articles even about the bag carried by an episodic character who barely has lines. And the photograph that Brian Cox, the iconic Logan Roy of this fiction, took the other day in El Prado before the Saturn devouring his son of Goya is viral.

Needless to say, the return of Jesse Armstrong's series has not disappointed. The most acid sarcasm, the cruelest dialogues and the looks of contempt of Shiv Roy (Sarah Snook) return. Brian Cox's "Fuck off!" and conversations about money are back in which, unlike in other series (and in real life), talking about money is not ordinary. Because it is not the same to talk about thousands than millions. And in Succession they talk about billions.

After the times of The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones, adult dramas such as The Last of Us or Succession are the kings of the seriéphile conversation. This is not a massive shouting but a pleasant atmosphere in which, for a couple of months, the episode of the week is the theme of the week.

I can't help but think about what will become of us Succession addicts when this series ends. His final season has already begun, so the countdown to the world without Roy brothers has begun. Jesse Armstrong knows his series can't go away just any way and promises an ending with the orchestra blaring. His portrayal of the despotism, pettiness and pathos of one of the richest families in the world is television history. It has also been, for years, the perfect wild card to write this section. When there is a new season of Succession I do not even consider that the best series of the week is not Succession. Just as the Roys do not consider that ordinary mortals need water, food or shelter. Oh, how are we going to miss those monsters.

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