Succession season four: Fans spot glaring editing fail in promo photos

2023-03-28

Succession fans spot a glaring editing fail in final season posters: ‘That’s not how reflections work!’

Fans of the hit HBO Max series Succession have been left scratching their heads over the promotional posters for season four.

Several images for the show were released last week featuring the individual characters ahead of the season premiere on March 27.

Brian Cox, Sarah Snook, Nicholas Braun, Kieran Culkin, Jeremy Strong, Alan Ruck and Matthew Macfadyen stand in front of the reflective windows of a skyscraper alongside the tagline ‘the final season’.

But the posters have left viewers baffled because the characters’ reflections seem to be facing the wrong direction in an apparent Photoshop fail.

‘That’s not how reflections work,’ one fan commented on the Instagram account of streaming platform Binge, which screens Succession in Australia.

Fans of the hit HBO Max series Succession have been left scratching their heads over the promotional posters for season four. (Pictured: Sarah Snook)

But when viewed individually, the characters’ reflections simply look wrong.

Nearly a year and a half after the explosive season three finale, Succession has finally returned for its fourth and final season.

HBO confirmed this month the fourth season would be its last, with the storyline likely revealing the fate of the Waystar Royco conglomerate built by Logan Roy.

A series of images for the show were released last week featuring the individual characters ahead of the season premiere on March 27. Brian Cox, Sarah Snook, Nicholas Braun (right), Kieran Culkin, Jeremy Strong (left), Alan Ruck and Matthew Macfadyen stand in front of the reflective windows of a skyscraper alongside the tagline ‘the final season’

The individual posters are actually cropped from a wider image featuring all the cast members standing side by side as the reflective windows behind them merge into a V shape, with patriarch Logan Roy standing in the middle – but when viewed individually, the characters’ reflections simply look wrong. (Pictured: Kieran Culkin)

‘That’s not how reflections work,’ one fan commented on the Instagram account of streaming platform Binge, which screens Succession in Australia

Logan’s children Kendall (Strong), Shiv (Snook), Roman (Culkin) and Connor (Ruck) all tried to veto the sale of the company to Lukas Mattson (Alexander Skarsgard), but their plans were foiled at the last minute when Tom Wambsgans (Macfadyen) alerted Logan of their plans, essentially throwing his own wife Shiv under the bus.

While the children all had the power to veto an impending sale, with the heads up from Tom, Logan was able to take out their veto power with a last-minute deal with his ex Caroline Collingwood (Harriet Walter).

This season will focus on the finalisation of the Waystar Royco sale and how it ‘provokes existential angst and familial division among the Roys as they anticipate what their lives will look like once the deal is complete,’ with the season premiere showing Logan’s children pulling off a huge victory over their father.

Nearly a year and a half after the explosive season three finale, Succession has finally returned for its fourth and final season

While for the majority of the series the Roy children have been at odds with each other, the last few episodes of season three found them finally joining forces to stop their father from selling off the family’s media conglomerate.

Little did they know that family black sheep Tom betrayed his own wife Shiv and tipped Logan off to what they were doing, giving him enough to remove their power to block the impending sale.

The final shots of season three seemed to indicate Shiv realised her husband betrayed her, though it is unclear how that will play out in season four.

HBO confirmed this month the fourth season would be its last, with the storyline likely revealing the fate of the Waystar Royco conglomerate built by Logan Roy

Logan’s children Kendall (Strong), Shiv (Snook), Roman (Culkin) and Connor (Ruck) all tried to veto the sale of the company to Lukas Mattson (Alexander Skarsgard – pictured), but their plans were foiled at the last minute when Tom Wambsgans (Macfadyen) alerted Logan of their plans, essentially throwing his own wife Shiv under the bus

Succession creator Jesse Armstrong first confirmed season four would be the end of the show in a wide-ranging interview with The New Yorker in which he was asked why he decided to confirm the final season before it debuted.

‘One, we could have said it as soon as I sort of decided, almost when we were writing it, which I think would be weird and perverse,’ Armstrong began.

‘We could have said it at the end of the season. I quite like that idea, creatively, because then the audience is just able to enjoy everything as it comes, without trying to figure things out, or perceiving things in a certain way once they know it’s the final season,’ he added.

‘But, also, the countervailing thought is that we don’t hide the ball very much on the show. I feel a responsibility to the viewership, and I personally wouldn’t like the feeling of, “Oh, that’s it, guys. That was the end.” I wouldn’t like that in a show. I think I would like to know it is coming to an end,’ he clarified.

He added: ‘And, also, there’s a bunch of prosaic things, like it might be weird for me and the cast as we do interviews. It’s pretty definitively the end, so then it just might be uncomfortable having to sort of dissemble like a politician for ages about it.

‘Hopefully, the show is against bulls**t, and I wouldn’t like to be bulls**tting anyone when I was talking about it.’

The first reviews for the fourth and final season of Succession have lauded its concluding run as ‘brisk, brutal and hilarious’

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