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Where is HBO’s Succession Filmed?

HBO’s satirical drama ‘ Succession ‘ follows the Logan family that is known for being the pioneer of one of the world’s biggest media and entertainment companies. But the foundation on which their empire rests on slowly begins to crumble when their father decides to take a step back from the company. Since its release, ‘Succession’ has landed several accolades under its belt including multiple Primetime Emmy Nominations and Golden Globes.  Along with its excellent screenwriting and strong performances, the show also sweeps you with its stellar production and lavish set designs. So if you’re looking for a detailed guide to its filming locations, we have you covered.

Succession Filming Locations

‘Succession’ first reached the public eye when, on June 6, 2016, HBO gave the show’s production a pilot order. Soon after this, in May 2017, the network finally gave the production a series order. Once its casting was done, the principal photography of the first season of ‘Succession’ began in October 2017 and then went on till February 2018. During this span, the first season was shot in several different locations of New York City, New Mexico, New Jersey, and England’s  Herefordshire. The filming for season 2 began sometime in April 2019 and was wrapped up around July 2019. For season 2, new additions to the show’s filming locations included New York’s Lake Placid and Lake George, along with several locations of  Korčula, Croatia .

New York City

Embuing the locales of the elite and the powerful, both the seasons of succession walk you through several landmarks of NYC. The show’s filming first started off in New York’s Lexington Avenue and East 75th Street in October 2017. The production then moved to the Financial District of Manhattan in November. Other NYC spots in season 1 include Downtown Manhattan Heliport at Pier 6,  the Bellevue Hospital, Le Coucou Restaurant , Cipriani at 25 Broadway, World Trade Center, Chelsea Square Restaurant, Henry Ford estate at Jule pond,  and Cunard Building on Broadway to the East New York Freight Tunnel. Season 2 also introduces us to some new locations such as Six Flags Great Escape in Queensbury, Whiteface Lodge at Lake Placid, and Del Posto eatery on 10th Avenue.

Succession filming on E80 St and Madison Ave #NYC ⁦ @HBO ⁩ ⁦ @olv ⁩ pic.twitter.com/qb0mULKC4O — NYC CULTURIST (@nycculturist) April 1, 2019

@olv "Succession" filming across from the Met in NYC 😊 pic.twitter.com/2v0kvcoCe2 — Emily Koopman (@EmilyKoopman) October 27, 2017

Many viewers would also recall Logan Roy and his third wife Marcia “Marcy” Roy’s grand townhouse from season 1. The scenes depicting this house were not filmed in one but many locations. The lobby scenes of the house were all filmed at the American Irish Historical Society at 991 Fifth Avenue located across from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Whereas the remaining upper floors were created on soundstages at Silvercup Studios in Long Island City.

#MatthewMacfadyen and #SarahSnook filming #Succession #HBO in New York. 😍 pic.twitter.com/E7zH7ksR2Q — Eve (@Eveline_x3) March 24, 2019

On Thursday April 25th from about 5 pm to 11 pm @HBO 's #Succession will be filming on Main Street. Parking and traffic will be affected from Hayes Street to Saranac Avenue as detailed in their letter to the community. pic.twitter.com/LnIFIfjles — Lake Placid PD (@LakePlacidPD) April 24, 2019

For the New Mexico shoot of the show, the production hired 89 local crew members and close to 75 people for background talent. Among all the locations of the US State, the Santa Fe area was used the most.

From Santa Fe, the production of the show was moved to New Jersey on February 22, 2018, where its filming took place in and around the Atlantic City-Brigantine tunnel.

A few days after its filming in New Jersey, the crew shifted to England’s Eastnor Castel near Ledbury Herefordshire. In the UK itself, the ‘Succession’ Season 2 was also filmed in several locations of Scotland including Dundee’s riverside V&A Museum and Glasgow’s George Square.

In @Dundee scouting for talent for #HBO Succession filming in #Dundee in June See you at the Open Casting on Monday 29th April 12-8pm at Hilltown Centre DD3 7DG @DundeeCouncil #castingnow #hboextras #castingcall @GBMCasting pic.twitter.com/1PVEVSgkEp — GBM Casting (@GBMCasting) April 25, 2019

Korčula, Croatia

For the filming of the final episodes of season 2, especially the yacht scenes, the production arrived at the Croatian coast where most scenes were shot in and around Korčula’s Old Town, close to the main square in front of the St. Mark’s Cathedral and also in a local restaurant, Cupido, which is located near the 5-star hotel Lešić Dimitri Palace.

For tonight’s season finale of Succession: a pic from the filming of the pilot 3 years (?) ago… pic.twitter.com/dr6ry1R8de — Adam McKay (@GhostPanther) October 14, 2019

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Where was ‘Succession’ filmed?

By James Medd

With the announcement that it will be the last, the prospect of Succession’s season four becomes even more intriguing. Over just 10 more episodes, that tantalising prospect in the show’s title must finally be resolved: who will triumph in this titanic family struggle and take on leadership of Waystar Royco?

Giving us a magnificent array of irredeemably awful characters, immaculately written and beautifully played, Jesse Armstrong’s show has been one of television’s greatest pleasures, and it’s also offered some of the best money-no-object locations from around the world. While we prepare for this Battle Roy-ale, here’s a tour of the highlights from seasons one to three and a taste of what’s coming in season four. As always with Succession, expect the views to be beautiful and the behaviour to be very ugly indeed.

Season four

As the Roys regather after their Italian showdown at the end of season three, we find them back in New York. We see all four gather at Peter McManus Café, an Irish bar on Seventh Avenue that claims it’s the oldest in the city, before heading out for karaoke. They also dine at Jean-Georges in Trump Tower, while Tom visits the Mark Hotel on 77th Street.

The production also enjoys a stint on the West Coast, where the star location is a spectacular property in the Pacific Palisades in Santa Monica. A mansion on San Onofre Drive, just at the edge of the mountains and the State Park, takes in six bedrooms, including a master with a roof that opens to the stars, indoor and outdoor ‘Zen gardens’, a rooftop deck with pool and a 20-seat cinema. Built by property developer Ardie Tavangarian, it’s available to let – though be warned; it was estimated to be the second most expensive house in California in 2021.

The big news for season four is a trip to  Norway , home to Lukas Matsson. The tech mogul gives the Roys a tour of his part of the country, including several locations on the west coast. As producer Scott Ferguson told Variety, the opportunity was too good to turn down: “Norway is a glorious, natural setting. It immediately seemed like a perfect place for a family gathering in the series. We studied different countries, but we realised Norway just has this exceptional landscape – like nowhere else in the world.”

The locations here include some familiar: the extraordinary islet-hopping Atlantic Ocean Road, featured in Bond outing  No Time To Die  as the ultimate car-chase challenge, and the Juvet Landscape Hotel. This eco-resort outside the village of Valldal was seen in the sci-fi movie  Ex Machina , and is made up of nine timber pods with floor-to-ceiling windows, along with a spa and converted barn dining room – the perfect home for a tech billionaire in 2023, in other words.

There’s also a reunion afoot, with Roys meeting key Royco staff at the summit of Nesaksla mountain close to the town of Andalsnes. We see the Eggen Restaurant here, with its 360-degree views of the Romsdalshorn and Vengetindene mountains and the Rauma River, as well as the Romsdalen Gondola, a cable car that transports them the 708 metres from ground level. Filming also took place further south on Kjeragbolten, a mountain to the east of Stavanger famed for waterfalls and a suspended stone, where we find some rather energetic activities going on amid the negotiations and ever-present backstabbing.

Season Four of ‘Succession’ can be seen from Monday 27 March 2023 on Sky Atlantic and NOWTV.

Season three

After the explosive drawing of battle lines that ends season two, we find Kendall holed up in the apartment of his ex-wife Rava in New York . This expansive home is played by the five-bedroom Pavilion A of the famed Woolworth Building, at 2 Park Place in Tribeca. Opened in 1912, the neo-gothic early skyscraper was once the tallest building in the world, and remains one of the most expensive. Kendall also has a new home of his own, revealed in episode three, filmed on the 90th floor at 35 Hudson Yards, part of the newly redeveloped neighbourhood in Chelsea that also featured in series The Flight Attendant . We’re back here in episode seven for Kendall’s 40th birthday in episode seven, filmed in the development’s arts venue The Shed after it was given a makeover that includes a treehouse and an abstract expression of his mother’s birthing canal.

While Kendall is in New York, Logan retreats to Sarajevo, where he bunkers down in the Hotel Clio. This was in fact filmed in Ellenville, a town in upstate New York, at the Honor’s Haven Retreat & Conference. Similar trickery is employed for Episode six’s visit to Richmond, Virginia and the Future Freedom Summit, where the Roys meet a pair of presidential hopefuls. For the location of the summit, the production filmed the exterior of the Jefferson Hotel in Richmond but shot the interiors back in New York, at The Plaza on Fifth Avenue. This venerable hotel provided its Palm Court, Terrace Room and Grand Ballroom, previously seen in various combinations in classics such as  Funny Girl ,  North by Northwest ,  Arthur  and  Sleepless in Seattle .

Another of the city’s great hotels, the New York Marriott Marquis on Broadway, is the venue for episode five’s Waystar RoyCo shareholder meeting, while also featured in the season are The Pierre, A Taj Hotel, New York on East 61st Street, the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel on West 53rd, and the Mandarin Oriental on Columbus Circle. Another notable New York location is the Cooper Union Foundation Building in NoHo, a brownstone from the 1850s housing a private college whose Great Hall is an established venue for speeches and art shows. It’s here that we see Cousin Greg meeting his grandfather Ewan in episode two.

After season two’s unforgettable ‘boars on the floor’ sequence, there’s also a return to the Hamptons. This time, it’s Logan and Roman alone, travelling separately in episode four to the island mansion of shareholder Josh Aaronson (Adrien Brody). His glass-walled waterfront property is in fact a private home in Wainscott, carefully shot to hide the neighbouring houses, while the surrounding area was filmed in nearby Montauk and the beaches of Shadmoor State Park and Kirk Park.

For the finale, season three goes one better than season two’s yacht trip with a Roy outing to Tuscany . British showrunner Armstrong admitted to Vulture that this was something of an in-joke for his countrymen: “I don’t know how much of a social signifier it is to Americans – anybody who can go abroad is really rich,” he said, "but [Tuscany] has this particular flavour for the English upper class. Some call it Chiantishire, in a slightly sickening way."

However the region resonates, the shoot provides some spectacular views, filmed by the same Italian crew who worked on the House of Gucci . In the starring role is Villa Cetinale in the small town of Sovicille, a 17th-century building with 13 bedrooms, a private chapel and extensive gardens, which became the wedding venue. The Roys, meanwhile, are in residence at Villa La Foce near the spa town of Chianciano Terme, with Kendall at the five-bedroom (plus, as we see, a pool) Villa Bonriposi in Legoli. We also see Shiv and Tom touring the bathing pool in the spa village of Bagno Vignoni, a full complement of Roy siblings dining with their mother at La Terrazza Del Chiostro in Pienza, and Shiv at her mother’s bachelorette party in the medieval town of Cortona.

Rivalling even Tuscany for beauty is another Italian location: the holiday home of GoJo’s Lukas Matsson (Alexander Skarsgard), which Roman visits on a whistlestop diversion in episode eight. Though we’re led to believe this is overlooking Lake Maggiore, it is in fact Villa La Casssinella on Lake Como . With a main villa, pool house with cinema and gym, formal gardens and an astonishing view, it’s only right that Matsson declares himself bored of it.

The show’s second season rings some changes, with a greater number of locations used, especially outside New York . Before then, though, we’re introduced to a new home in Manhattan for Shiv and Tom, filmed in an unspecified penthouse overlooking Brooklyn Bridge, and we see Kendall in Del Posto on 10th Avenue, the most lavish of NYC’s Italian restaurants.

In episode two, the family celebrate a child’s birthday at one of the company’s adventure parks, Brightstar – in fact, Six Flags Great Escape in Queensbury, upstate New York, the same location where in Season One we see Cousin Greg vomiting into his chicken costume. In episode six, we’re nearby at Whiteface Lodge, Lake Placid, a palatial timber resort in the Adirondacks that serves as the setting for the Argestes media conference.

Before that, episode one gives us a move reminiscent of season one’s family trip to the New Mexico ranch of eldest brother Connor, when we’re taken to a summit in Logan’s new house in the Hamptons , where a highly symbolic raccoon is causing a stink in the chimney. This is really the Henry Ford Estate at Jule Pond, in Mecox Bay, Southampton, built by Henry Ford II in 1960 and, with 42 acres and the largest ocean frontage in the region, recently valued at $175 million. Later, in episode five, the Roys visit business rivals the Pierces at another mansion, filmed at Salutation Manor in Glen Cove, on the north shore of Long Island. Situated on its own 48-acre island, this was built by a grandson of financier JP Morgan in 1919 and, with its long gallery corridors and formal drawing rooms, very much looks like it.

One of the season’s most gruelling scenes comes in episode three at the company retreat in Hungary, after a day shooting, drinking and plotting. Despite the ambience of old European royal residence, this was in fact shot close to Salutation Manor, at Oheka Castle in Huntington. Built (and named after) financier Otto Hermann Kahn in the 1910s, it’s a 127-roomed fairytale castle in the French style, down to the perfectly symmetrical sunken garden, used in photographic form as Kane’s Xanadu in Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane and now a hotel.

There’s also a return to the UK, this time to Logan’s hometown of Dundee, where he’s honoured at the new space-age riverside V&A Museum, and also Glasgow , where filming took place around George Square, and also doubled for scenes set in London . While there, the production took the opportunity to fly to Iceland for the season’s opening shots of Kendall in a rehab centre. According to producer/director Mark Mylod, this had originally been set at the Blue Lagoon spa close to Reykjavik but was hurriedly relocated after contractual difficulties. “With about a week to go, we were locationless, which was a little bit scary,” he told Filmmaker Magazine . “I’d been a big fan of  Black Mirror  and remembered a house I’d seen on an episode [season four’s Crocodile ], which I knew was in Iceland. It happened to be available, and we jumped all over that. It was a fantastically stark location.”

In sharp contrast, the season ends with the Roys amid blue skies and seas in the Aegean Sea and Croatia . This was filmed on the island of Korcula , both on the 279-foot charter yacht Solandge and in the Old Town, taking in the 15th-century St Mark’s Cathedral and shoreside restaurant Cupido.

The base for both the show and the Roy family at its centre is New York City . At its heart are two locations, patriarch Logan’s house on Fifth Avenue and the head office of his Waystar Royco empire. The home, a high-ceilinged Billionaire’s Row townhouse straight out of the Gilded Age, is created mostly in a studio. When we see the lobby, though, it’s really the entrance to the American Irish Historical Society, which is indeed on Fifth Avenue, overlooking the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Central Park. The offices, meanwhile, are recreated in two empty areas in the World Trade Center, in blocks 4 and 7, giving the authentic top-of-the-world views over Midtown Manhattan.

Season one also shows us a variety of other NYC spots, from the company gala held in the Cunard Building on Broadway in episode four to the East New York Freight Tunnel, a graffiti-heavy section of unused railroad track that provides the entrance to the elite event visited for the bachelor party of Tom (Matthew Macfadyen) in episode eight. We also see the Downtown Manhattan Heliport at Pier 6, where the family choppers out in the first episode for a high-stakes game of rounders starring rogue son Roman (Kieran Culkin), and the Bellevue Hospital, the revered institution on First Avenue where Logan is taken when he suffers a stroke.

For the final two episodes, the show moves to the UK for Shiv’s wedding. This takes place at the home of her English mother, Lady Caroline (Harriet Walter), filmed at Eastnor Castle in Herefordshire , a fantastical faux-medieval construction from the 19th century that has featured on film and TV for 50 years, including the BBC’s children’s classic  The Box of Delights  and Madonna’s reviled biopic of Wallace Simpson,  W.E.  (2012).

Solandge, the yacht used in Succession, costs $1million a week to hire

In last night’s Succession Season 2 finale on HBO, the Roy family and their top Waystar-Royco aides spent time onboard Logan Roy’s luxurious Mediterranean yacht, ostensibly on a brief cruise vacation.  However, the Mediterranean cruise was actually intended to give Logan (Brian Cox) the opportunity to take time off to decide who should take the fall to save Waystar-Royco’s tarnished reputation following the company’s mismanagement scandal, and a congressional hearing on the matter.

Logan finally decided that his troubled son Kendall (Jeremy Strong) would be the “blood sacrifice” to save the company.

If you saw last night’s season finale and wondered about the luxurious yacht that provided the setting for the episode, here is everything you need to know about it.

The superyacht in tonight’s episode of Succession Sign up for our newsletter! Get updates on the latest posts and more from Monsters and Critics straight to your inbox. By submitting your information you agree to our T&Cs and Privacy Policy. Length: 85.1 meters Crew: 29 Cost: 1,000,000 euros to rent per week https://t.co/jaPEubbK6m — Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) October 14, 2019

@Succession_HBO is that M/Y Solandge? Used in S2E10? Nice. — Daniel B Nash Sr (@DanielBNashSr1) October 14, 2019

Solandge was the yacht used in the Succession Season 2 finale

The yacht used in last night’s episode of Succession was the famous 85.1-meter Lürssen motor yacht Solandge . Solandge is one of the world’s largest and most iconic luxurious motor superyachts available for charter.

The weekly summer and winter charter price for a Mediterranean cruise is listed as being from €1,000,000 ( currently about $1,102, 642 plus expenses ).

Solandge was first listed for sale in 2015 at an asking price of €179 million. It was finally sold in a deal brokered by the luxury yacht brokerage firm Moran Yacht & Ship in 2017. The deal, said to be the biggest yacht deal of the year in 2017, was reportedly worth €155,000,000.

Solandge was built by Lürssen in 2013. The luxurious granite, marble and wood interior of the yacht was jointly designed by Rodriguez Interiors and Dolker & Voges. The exterior was designed by Espen Øino ( Espen Oeino).

The yacht is able to sleep 12-16 guests in eight large staterooms. It is also able to accommodate a large gathering of overnight party guests in en-suite cabins. Facilities include a sauna, steam room, massage room, beauty salon, gym, sun deck, outdoor swimming pool, dance floor, bar, outdoor cinema, and nightclub.

The boat has a cruising speed of 15 knots and a top speed of 17 knots.

Solange won the Monaco Yacht Club’s La Belle Classe Superyachts award at the 2014 Monaco Yacht Show.

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Which yacht stars in the TV series 'Succession'?

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By Katia Damborsky   29 October 2019

The 279ft (85m)  charter yacht SOLANDGE is the yacht in HBO’s  Succession. Hitting TV screens in 2019, the season finale of season 2 gives viewers an inside glimpse into life on board the Lurssen luxury yacht in the Mediterranean .

The curtain closed on season 2 of hit HBO show Succession earlier this month, after a dramatic season finale filmed on board SOLANDGE cruising the Mediterranean .

The series gives viewers a peak inside the six-deck superyacht, which can be rented from €1,000,000 (approximately $1,136,000) per week plus expenses.

While the yacht is fictitiously owned by the Roy family in the series, Succession showcases the type of lifestyle you can expect when chartering million-dollar megayachts ; from stylish helicopter departures to zipping between islands on a luxury tender.

The finale of Succession Season 2 is filmed on board superyacht SOLANDGE

Succession is an award-winning comedy-drama which centres around the life of the uber-wealthy and highly dysfunctional Roy family.

At the helm of the family is patriarch Logan Roy, a media titan who heads up and controls an international media conglomerate. After his health takes a turn for the worst, his adult children must each face the prospect of becoming heir to the family business. 

Rife with power struggles, backstabbing betrayals and family loyalty, Succession offers a fresh take on abuse, media and wealth in contemporary America.  

Succession showcases the type of lifestyle you can expect when chartering million-dollar megayachts.

The dramatic end to season 2 of Succession premiered in October 2019, with the finale to Succession filmed on board the motor yacht SOLANDGE.

This glamorous setting gave us plenty of scandal; Logan disingenuously suggesting stepping down as CEO, Connor's iPad getting thrown overboard and of course, the shocking final moments where we see Kendall blowing the whistle on his father.

How much does it cost to rent the yacht in Succession?

The cost of renting luxury yacht SOLANDGE is upwards of 1 million euros (or 1.136 million dollars) per week plus expenses during both the winter and summer. This price does not include the cost of food, drink, fuel dockage, VAT and tips.

SOLANDGE features in our article, the world’s most expensive charter yachts which cost over $1 million to rent per week .

What does the yacht from Succession look like inside?

With her Lurssen pedigree, innovative design and stunning selection of amenities,  SOLANDGE is recognised as one of the world’s most iconic superyachts.

She is home to all the facilities you would expect on a yacht of this calibre, including a sleek swimming pool with jet-stream technology and a cutting-edge chromotherapy spa with Hamman and treatment room which both integrate light therapy. 

Her main deck plays host to the expansive owners’ suite, which enjoys his and hers en suites with adjoining dressing rooms, a private lounge-cum-office and a private deck area with dip pool and intimate seating areas. 

While chartering her, guests can make use out of a fully-stocked wine cellar and an elevator with the capacity for nine.

Inside superyacht SOLANDGE

SOLANDGE features ornate interiors from Florida-based studio Rodriguez Interiors. A palatial theme is reflected in plush fabrics, a rich colour palette and a selection of semi-precious stones, including amethyst, honey onyx, gold leaf and rose quartz.

The design team behind SOLANDGE has also sourced plenty of glass fixtures from Murano, an island near Venice famed for its rich history of glass-making. 

Her opulent finish is evident in the main salon, which is flanked by two walls of LED backlit amethyst that imbue the room with a soft lilac glow.

An elaborate focal point, the walls have been created by slicing a piece of amethyst into tiny segments with diamond wire and gluing them to a glass sheet, before then being covered by a panel of Plexiglass studded with LED lights.

Another talking point aboard the charter yacht is the floating central staircase, which features a sculpted ‘Tree of Life’ statue ascending the full height of the yacht.

In total, 1,423 points of light illuminate the space with a warm glow. Themes of nature continue in the owner’s suite, where backlit mullions depict the Garden of Eden. 

In total, around 25 wood veneers have been used throughout luxury yacht SOLANDGE. On the lower decks, where there is typically less light, the yacht features darker, ebony finishes; higher up, lighter blondewood and caramel finishes are more prevalent.

This delicate mix of traditional opulence and contemporary punches of colour and texture lend SOLANDGE an atmosphere quite unlike any yacht.

A motor yacht of her calibre makes the perfect backdrop for Succession, and it’s hoped we’ll see SOLANDGE return to reprise her role as the Roy family’s luxury yacht in season 3.

If you’d like to learn more about chartering M/Y SOLANDGE, please get in touch with your preferred yacht charter broker .

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'Succession' Filming Locations: Where Has the HBO Series Been Shot?

From the heart of Manhattan to the sun-kissed hills of Tuscany, 'Succession's filming locations are all linked to power, wealth, and inheritance.

Among the many joys of watching HBO’s Succession is the visual feast its impressive filming locations provide. These locations range from relatively new builds to 17th-century villas, from the heart of Manhattan to the sun-kissed hills of Tuscany. But despite the variety of filming locations on the show, nearly all are united by their links to power, wealth, and inheritance. As we take a closer look at some of Succession ’s most notable settings, we’ll see that these gorgeous locales can actually provide some insight into the show’s themes. Whether it be connections to tycoons such as Henry Ford and J.P. Morgan, U.S. Presidents such as Donald Trump and Abraham Lincoln, or even a 17th-century Pope, these filming locations constantly emphasize the Roy family’s status and ambition.

RELATED: Breaking Down 'Succession's Opening Credits: What Are the Biggest Differences Each Season?

Trump Tower

In Season 4, Episode 2 of Succession , the three primary Roy siblings (Kendall, Shiv, and Roman) meet up with their older brother Connor ( Alan Ruck ) at the Jean-Georges in Trump Tower. The restaurant is widely regarded as one of the best in New York City, having received a perfect four-star rating from The New York Times. Donald Trump and Mitt Romney famously dined there together in 2016 in an attempt to squash their rivalry.

Despite filming at Trump Tower, Succession has gone out of its way to keep Trump out of its storylines. In the fictional world of Succession , the current president’s actual name is unknown (he is only derogatorily referred to as “the raisin”) and he hails from California, not New York. Nonetheless, Trump looms large as someone who would likely be in the Roy family orbit. Producer Adam McKay and star Brian Cox have noted the Roy family’s similarities to the Trumps , most notably Donald’s appointment of his daughter and son-in-law to prestigious White House positions.

Cooper Union

Cooper Union is a private college housed in an elegant brownstone located in Lower Manhattan that first opened its doors in 1859. A year later, it was enshrined in American history as the site of then-presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln’s famed Cooper Union speech, in which he argued against the expansion of slavery. Since then, presidents ranging from Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama have delivered speeches in the building’s hallowed halls.

Cooper Union made history yet again, albeit in a less consequential manner, when it was featured in Season 3, Episode 2 of Succession as the setting for a scene between Cousin Greg ( Nicholas Braun ) and his grandfather Ewan ( James Cromwell ). While not a terribly important moment in the show, it nonetheless emphasizes that the Roys are constantly in the grandest and most historic of locations. If there was such a thing as an American palace located in New York, Cooper Union would be it.

The Henry Ford Estate at Jule Pond

Henry Ford II, grandson of Henry Ford and President of Ford Motor Company for 15 years, built this 42-acre Southampton home in 1960. In 2021, it became one of the Hamptons' most expensive properties when it sold for $105 million . The home features 12 bedrooms, a pool, tennis courts, basketball courts, and a spa. It was designed by legendary architect Philip Johnson, who was responsible for the Museum of Modern Art’s sculpture garden, as well as the famous Glass House in Connecticut.

The estate is the setting of Logan Roy’s new Hamptons home in Season 2, Episode 1. It’s hard to ignore the home’s ties to not only Henry Ford, one of America’s most well-known business magnates, but also his grandson, who inherited a company he was ill-prepared to manage. It seems that everywhere the Roys go, they are surrounded by the legacy of familial wealth.

Salutation Manor

In Season 2, Episode 5, the Roys make a run at buying Pierce Global Media, a plotline that might be inspired by Rupert Murdoch’s successful acquisition of Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal. The Pierce family, as all rich New York families tend to do, own a mansion in the Hamptons. Instead of a Ford estate, this time it’s Salutation Manor, which is located on its very own 46-acre island. Salutation was built by J.P. Morgan’s grandson Junius Spencer Morgan III in 1929. It hosted the grieving Jackie Kennedy shortly after the assassination of her husband, President John F. Kennedy, and served as a party destination for Andy Warhol in 1981. Salutation’s grounds were designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, who also designed Central Park. As of 2017, the property was valued at $125 million .

Junius Morgan III is another benefactor of a vast family fortune who, despite once being part of the family business, was said to know nothing about banking . During World War II, Junius served as a captain in the OSS, an intelligence agency that served as a precursor to the CIA. Junius died in 1960, only six months after hosting an elaborate 800-person party at his estate.

Villa Cetinale

This Roman Baroque villa in Tuscany was built in 1680 by Flavio Chigi, who inherited the property from his uncle, Pope Alexander VII. Notably, this Pope was elected because he was believed to oppose nepotism, but he ultimately appointed many of his own family members, including his nephew Flavio, to important positions in the Church. Villa Cetinale includes lush, elaborate gardens, which were featured in a book written by Edith Wharton. The gardens include a giant statue of Hercules, as well as a bell tower, olive grove, and lemon garden.

The villa later became the home of Anthony Lambton, a Conservative Member of Parliament and cousin to a Prime Minister. Lambton moved to Villa Cetinale after a story, published in the Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid News of the World, revealed that he had solicited prostitutes. After Lambton’s death in 2006, this storied villa became available for private rentals, eventually serving as the wedding venue in the Season 3 finale of Succession .

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11 beautiful Succession filming locations you can visit in real life 

By Lisa Liebman

It's (family) business as usual as  Succession ’s contentious Roy clan returns for the fourth and final season of the HBO series. Perpetually discontent siblings Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Roman (Kieran Culkin), Shiv (Sarah Snook), and Connor (Alan Ruck) aren’t likely to accept being excluded from the merger their media-mogul father Logan (Brian Cox)—with an assist from Shiv’s husband Tom (Matthew Macfadyen)—has orchestrated with GoJo streaming CEO Lukas Matsson (Alexander Skarsgård). 

But internecine power struggles among this privileged company have their perks. Rather than taking place in dull corporate boardrooms, the battles over Logan’s C-suite have played out in glamorous locations befitting a billionaire and his entitled kids. Ahead of this season’s premiere—with a trailer that hints at destinations including a Pacific Palisades mansion and Matsson’s home turf of Norway—we tour some of the series’ top filming spots that are open to the public or available for rent.  

The cocktail party which kicked off the siblings’ mother’s wedding weekend was filmed at La Foce. 

This famous 3,500-acre  estate in southern Tuscany, with its lush lawns, clipped hedges, and pine stands, is said to have Italy’s most beautiful gardens —and boasts the first cypress-lined lanes designed by famous English landscape gardener Cecil Pinsent. Though the property can accommodate up to 24 guests, only some Roys bedded down there during their mother Lady Caroline Collingwood’s (Harriet Walker) destination wedding in season three.  

Also notable about the Renaissance mansion in Val d’Orcia is the  role it played in World War II, when its owners, Iris Origo and her husband Antonio Origo, offered refuge to children and escaped prisoners of war. 

The wedding ceremony was filmed at Villa Cetinale.

This 17th-century 13- bedroom Italian  mansion near Siena was the venue for Collingwood’s Tuscany nuptials to Peter Munion (Pip Torrens) in season three. Built for Pope Alexander VII, the cream-colored villa with its own chapel is surrounded by aristocratic gardens with Baroque sculptures, where the wedding reception took place.   

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Located in Tuscany’s Val d’Orcia , this former rest house with exposed wood-beam ceilings and original stone- and brickwork, was originally used by Christian pilgrims. Kendall and his kids called the country casa home during his mom’s wedding in season three. The six-bedroom, six-bath villa has modern amenities, a fireplace, and a pool—where Kendall almost drowned. 

Matsson’s villa is the site of tense negotiations. 

Accessible only by boat, this meticulously restored überprivate 19th-century  estate was Matsson’s vacation home in season three. The nine-bedroom main house with a separate boathouse has panoramic lake views and is decorated with Italian antiques and fine art . Accommodating 17 people , the property is surrounded by lush gardens and has a heated infinity pool, pool house with a screening room and gym, and a tennis court. The secluded getaway is on the western shore of Lake Como, not on Lake Maggiore in northern Switzerland as  Succession suggested, and is available to rent through  Bellini Travel . 

The Roys visit this New Mexico property in season one.

The Land of Enchantment was anything but when the Roys descended on Santa Fe, New Mexico, in season one for a family summit at this sprawling 190-acre property where bison roam free. Supposedly owned by Connor, the 11-bedroom art-filled main residence filled with formal Spanish furnishings was designed by William F. Tull, who was considered the southwest’s best designer of adobe structures. Mogul Jochen Zeitz bought the ranch (available for  stays ) in 2012, and turned it into an authentic—troweled plaster walls and vaulted brick ceilings—Pueblo-style place that includes a cantina inspired by a 300 year-old Spanish cowboy bar, a carriage house, and a chapel, all connected by Mexican stone pathways. 

A Long Island hotel and wedding venue stood in for a Hungarian hunting lodge in season two.

A 109,000-square-foot, 127-room French-style  mansion in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, stood in for the Hungary location where Waystar senior staff decamped for a company hunting retreat that included season two ’s infamous “boar on the floor” game. Built by Otto Hermann Kahn in the 1920s, the now meticulously restored chateau was the financier’s summer retreat. It remains the second-largest private home ever built in the US and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. 

The Roys were hardly able to enjoy their time aboard this luxurious yacht.

A  superyacht was the Roys’ private floating hotel at the end of season two as they cruised the Croatian Adriatic around Cavtat—dubbed the Dubrovnik Riviera. On the 279-foot, five-deck luxury vessel—with amenities that include an infinity pool, bar with a piano, nightclub with a DJ station, and full spa (sauna, steam room, beauty salon)—it was decided that Kendall would take the fall for the company’s cruise ship malfeasance. But not before a stop on the island of Korčula and its Old Town—listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site—and a business meeting at  Cupido , a restaurant with a modern take on Mediterranean dishes and views over Korčula’s archipelago. 

Shiv honored her English roots by having her wedding at a UK castle in season one.

This 19th-century medieval  castle in Herefordshire on the edge of the Cotswolds is the elegant estate where Shiv’s ill-fated marriage to Tom took place in season one. The venue that’s truly a favorite wedding site was built between 1810 and 1824 by the Second Baron (Lord) John Somers Cocks and is still owned by his descendants. Visitors can explore the revival castle’s opulent state rooms and bedrooms, as well as grounds that include a deer park, arboretum, and manmade lake. 

The exterior of The Shed in New York City. 

This visual arts and performance space on New York City ’s West Side was designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with Rockwell Group as part of the 28-acre Hudson Yards complex. It was transformed into the over-the-top birthday venue—replete with a walk-thru vagina—for Kendall’s 40th in season three. Known for its shell design featuring a moveable 16,0000-square-foot outer skeleton, the structure expands and contracts using industrial crane technology and can envelop the adjacent 20,000-square-foot plaza.

Here, the Roys hold court in a Plaza hotel suite. 

Though it’s The Jefferson Hotel entrance that’s seen when the Roys arrive at a Virginia political conference in season three, it’s New York City’s iconic Plaza Hotel that provided the meetings’ interior scenes. The king-making Roys mingled with potential presidential candidates in the elegant five-star’s public (The Palm Court, Terrace Room, Grand Ballroom) and private (Royal Suite) rooms before anointing their man. 

Roman and Gerri (J. Smith Cameron) in a scene filmed at Whiteface Lodge.

This modern Adirondack-style  lodge evoking the rustic timber design of retreats built during the Gilded Age is where various Roys attended the Argestes tech conference in season two. Though the main lodge’s wood-beamed exterior may be 19th-century style, the Lake Placid, New York, property offers 21st-century accommodations and amenities, including a spa. 

This article originally featured on Architecturaldigest.com

What time does Succession air?

In the UK, Succession season four airs on Sky Atlantic and Now TV . It airs on Sky Atlantic every Monday morning at 2am BST, and you can also catch it on Sky Go or Now TV right after. The same episode airs later that same day at 9pm.

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In January, 1973, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times flew to Nice, France, to interview the director Herbert Ross about “The Last of Sheila,” a mystery picture that he was shooting on the Côte d’Azur, much of which took place on a luxurious, hundred-and-sixty-five-foot yacht called H.M.S. Malahne. The gilded ship, which was built in England in 1937 and once helped evacuate soldiers from Dunkirk, became something of a Hollywood fixture in the nineteen-sixties and seventies: it served as the floating production office for “Lawrence of Arabia” in Jordan, was a regular Mediterranean clubhouse for Elizabeth Taylor and Frank Sinatra, and popped up in “The Last of Sheila,” as the watery summer home of a sinister film producer played by James Coburn. (There was a kernel of truth buried in this fiction: at the time of filming, H.M.S. Malahne was the property of a womanizing film producer named Sam Spiegel, who was allegedly so handsy with actresses that Billy Wilder once said that he had “velvet octopus arms.”) Dark things can happen out at sea, when people feel unmoored from both the shoreline and a landlocked sense of morality. “The Last of Sheila,” written by Anthony Perkins and Stephen Sondheim—who used to host infamous mystery parties together in New York—pushes this idea to murderous excess. A group of glamorous strangers (including Raquel Welch, Ian McShane, and Dyan Cannon) set sail, people start dying, and it’s up to the viewer to discover whodunnit. In his Los Angeles Times interview, Ross acknowledged the inherent creepiness of floating stories: “If you have a group of people on a ship,” he said, “the ship becomes a metaphor for existence, you can’t help it. . . . it’s about civilization and barbarism.”

I could not stop thinking about “The Last of Sheila” while watching the Season 2 finale of “Succession,” which traps the Roy family and their closest remora on a superyacht in the Adriatic. Like H.M.S. Malahne, which would look like a dinghy beside the Roys’ “boat” (rich people never say “yacht”), their sea vessel is also the setting for a kind of murder mystery. After a series of scandals involving Waystar Royco’s cruise division (dark things happen at sea!), the company’s board demands a “blood sacrifice,” a scapegoat that they can tie up in litigation while the empire sails on, more or less unscathed. Each person who boards the ship knows that they could end up as the one overboard.

And yet they look fabulous. Relaxed. Expensive. Carefree. Cool in Top-Siders and floral maxidresses and gossamer pareos. Like Cannon in “Sheila,” who wore oversized tinted glasses and a circus of colorful caftans and straw hats, even as she was fearing for her life, the Roys, in resort wear, are engaging in high-stakes high fashion, on the high seas.

When I wrote about the fashion on “Succession” earlier this fall, I argued that the Roys are a family of “little pleasure or sparkle,” that, in spite of their money, they are tasteful to a fault, dressing protectively in uniforms of beige cashmere rather than in eccentric couture. I spoke to the show’s costume designer, Michelle Matland, who told me that this was accurate—but that she could not wait for me to see the finale, where we would get to see a different side of the Roy dress code. “I shouldn’t even be telling you this,” she said, at the time. “But they go on a yacht. We get to see them at play.”

Even with this tip-off, the Roys’ maritime peacocking came as a thrilling visual surprise. At last, here was the family in private, dressing only for each other. “Sails out, nails out, bro,” as Kendall instructed Cousin Greg . And while their fashion choices are more adventurous at sea—Tom’s pink linen Ralph Lauren jacket, Shiv’s flowy white Hobbs jumpsuit with an oversized waist sash, Willa’s floral Equipment dress, which she likely bought after seeing it on Kate Middleton—there is still a sense of gloom that seeps through the pastels. I spoke to J. Smith-Cameron, who plays Gerri, Waystar Royco’s general counsel, who did her best Sue Mengers impression in a series of Cynthia Rowley caftans. Smith-Cameron told me that she wanted to look like she was seasick with stress, even in spangles. “We see these people on this plush boat on the Adriatic with delicious food, and there’s a pool and a slide and Jet Skis,” she said. “But everyone is filled with dread. So it was actually meant to be jarring: beautiful surroundings with long faces and furtive glances, not people enjoying themselves. So all of our resort wear is meant to look nice but at the same time be amusingly counter.”

Matland echoed this sentiment. Tom, for example, is coming off his disastrous performance at the congressional hearings on Waystar Royco’s crimes and is “highly agitated,” she said. “His clothing, which was a lot of Ralph Lauren linen suits, is there to belie the fact that he is on the edge of a breakdown. He is constantly trying to look as if he is comfortable—pink linens say honeymoon, vacation, enjoyment—but it is there to cover for the fact that he is unhinged.”

Matland’s goal with the episode was to telegraph the shared anxiety that each character feels while laundering this panic through the resort-wear section of Bergdorf Goodman. Kendall (Jeremy Strong), who quietly slumps around, wears a tiny Paul Stuart trilby hat (Strong’s idea), which Matland says serves as both a security blanket and as a sign that he is feeling deeply insecure. “The hat was crumpled, if you’ll notice,” she said. “It was purposefully imperfect.”

In the final twist, when Kendall turns saboteur, he is back in his city armor: a sharp, fitted Tom Ford suit that almost shines like sharkshin. He sheds the earth tones that he has been wearing all season and dons the color black—a mournful color, but also one that marks him as an assassin, capable of patricide. He’s lost his blingy Oliver Peoples sunglasses, the typical eyewear of rich scions who have a trust fund and personal shoppers who run errands to SoHo; he is at last seeing clearly.

Sunglasses were crucial to this episode, Matland told me, when it came to winking at subtle differences between characters. Shiv, for example, wears traditional Ray-Bans, a sign that she wants to traffic in old-money rituals rather than in flashy ostentation. (“It was significant that she did not wear Gucci or Prada,” Matland said.) Tom’s sunglasses in his much memed chicken-stealing moment , right after he breaks down about his unhappy marriage, are Persol, an old-world Italian brand favored by worldly celebrities, most notably by Anthony Bourdain, who wore his pair all over the globe. His shades are as close to representing rebelliousness as one can get in the Roys’ world. Tom is past his breaking point; he’s having his Brando moment.

Logan never lets his guard down, even in the sun—his sun hat is wool, from Walker Slater, a tweedy, posh haberdasher from Scotland. Nor does Roman, who, despite being the most feckless character, may also be the most authentic, in that he almost never changes his costume. “He has a uniform he’s super-comfortable in,” Matland said. “Blue oxford button-ups. Always.”

As for Shiv, most of her boat wear, including her cream pinstripe suits, is Ralph Lauren Purple Label, a sign that she arrived on the ship most prepared for professional ruthlessness. She wants the top job, she’s dressed for it, and she’s willing to throw her husband under the bus for it, save for a rare moment of weakness in front of her father. Her one whimsical touch is an oversized straw hat with a black ribbon, from the Brooklyn brand Lola, which makes her look pampered and pastoral, like an extra from “ Anne of Green Gables .” Even with her sharp, new-ish bob and architectural wardrobe, Shiv is still a spoiled, priggish little girl who throws tantrums if she can’t get her way, and her accessories betray her true nature. (As a side note, Smith-Cameron told me that she was so taken with Shiv’s hat that she went out and bought one for herself after the episode wrapped.)

In “Succession,” no detail is out of place. Like a classic whodunnit, it is the kind of show that begs rewatching, studying, squinting at with a gimlet eye. If you run the finale back, you might wonder when exactly Cousin Greg decided to betray Logan and give Kendall the incriminating documents that he stole. Was it while shirtless and in baggy swim trunks, drinking a mediocre rosé, or was it while he was wearing a navy Lacoste polo on the Roys’ private jet? When Greg first boards the yacht, in a striped French blue sweater and tailored khaki shorts, he looks suspiciously like Tom Ripley, a sleek interloper in the world of luxury who is willing to kill to survive. Perhaps even then Greg was eager to turn traitorous. Matland, who worked on the film “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” understands more than most how to make summer attire appear instantly malevolent. She creates a world of sunny poplins and ivory linens and breathable cottons, but, in the end, we are the ones left holding our breath.

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HBO’s Emmy-nominated comedy-drama is back again for season two, as aging patriarch Logan Roy (masterfully played by Brian Cox), head of the family-controlled global media conglomerate Waystar Royco, battles his family for power in the boardroom. Production designer Stephen Carter and set decorator George DeTitta Jr. return to design the sets that reflect the lifestyles of the dysfunctional family members vying to be modern-day Masters of the Universe.

With the second season primarily set in Manhattan, Carter notes it “involves a lot more work outside of New York City. At times it really started to feel like a road show. Some of these new sets include a Roy family 'Summer Palace' in the Hamptons—in winter, of course—a boar hunting estate in Hungary, a billionaires’ media conference in Lake Placid, [New York,] a return to England, a tribute party at the new V&A in Dundee, Scotland, congressional work in Washington, D.C., and a final episode on the Aegean that will likely knock some socks off.” And audiences will no doubt recognize Roy’s magnificent Fifth Avenue mansion, shot on a soundstage, and the wood- and glass-paneled World Trade Center offices from last season.

The elegant portrait-filled hallway of the Pierce Estate, aka the Salutation mansion, in Glen Cove, New York.

DeTitta mixed authentic horns purchased from a taxidermist with antlers designed by the show’s scenic artists for a focal point in the dining room of a Hungarian boar-hunting lodge.

Designing for the fictitious Upper One Percent involves just the right echelon of detail and taste. “The quality of craftsmanship, the level of decor, and even simple access to mind-numbing square footages are all really important in showing the world of the uber-rich,” says Carter. “If you look at the two seasons to date, there are not many sets we return to for substantial amounts of time. So we’re constantly trying to strike the right balance between building lavish sets—Logan and Marsha’s apartment and the Waystar Royco offices, for example—and keeping our financial powder dry to find great locations that serve the story for an episode or two but that we may never return to.”

Historical stately mansions played a big part in this season’s environs. For Roy’s summer home, the designers chose Henry Ford II’s 1960 estate, heralded as the Hamptons most expensive at a mere $175 million. The house’s owners were more than happy to give the 20-room, 20,000-square-foot home its close-up. As Emmy-nominated set decorator Carter details: “We changed all the artwork, added furniture, and dressed five rooms. For the office, we placed a desk from Newell Antiques and kept the homeowner’s rug; we used a palette of white and blues and tried to keep the integrity of the house.”

The owner’s original area rug anchors the show’s custom furnishings in the summerhouse den.

Coastal blues and whites form the color palette for Roy’s master bedroom in Southampton, New York.

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Shiv and Tom’s new three-story apartment boasts a spectacular view of the Brooklyn Bridge.

Built by J.P. Morgan’s grandson on an idyllic 85-plus-acre island, the Salutation manor in Glen Cove, New York, doubles as the fictitious Pierce Estate where the Roy family gathers for dinner at the home of a potential corporate buyer. In a moment of synchronicity and déjà vu, DeTitta realized he spent a year working at the Georgian colonial some 18 years ago. “We shot the film Sabrina (the Harrison Ford remake of the 1954 Billy Wilder original), and it’s the same now as it was in 1995,” says DeTitta. “The production company, in an effort to probably get out of the location fast, decided to leave the custom-made furniture to the owner of the house. The designer of Sabrina had me make a particular sofa that he was fond of and when I scouted it for Succession , the sofa was still in the living room, along with the ottoman in the attic!"

A hunting lodge in Hungary—via the Oheka Castle in Huntington, New York—proved to be the perfect setting for yet another Roy family dinner. “We scouted numerous estate like settings, and in the end, it was a combination of the architecture and availability along with the exquisite surrounding grounds, where we had numerous exterior shots of our group hunting wild boars, that determined it was the right location for the story,” says DeTitta.

The designers had to reassemble and relay the marble flooring of Roy’s Fifth Avenue mansion.

The Salutation estate’s living room was also used in the 1995 remake of the classic film Sabrina .

Roy’s only daughter, newlywed Shiv (Sarah Snook), and her husband Tom (Matthew Macfadyen) get new digs in an existing Manhattan penthouse with a spectacular view of the Brooklyn Bridge and City Hall. Filmed in a contemporary three-story apartment, the set decorator says the setting “was an entirely different environment; we brought in some décor and used an existing table and lighting, and decided we would go with the feeling already established [in the interiors].”

The designers also built private jets and a yacht (useful to the characters who were visiting exotic locations), representing the ultimate essential accoutrements in the life of an Upper One Percenter. As Logan Roy would say, “Money wins—here’s to us.”

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How ‘Succession’ Built a ‘Killer’ Season Finale

“ Deep Dive ” is a in-depth podcast and video essay series with the stars, creators and crafts team behind an exceptional piece of filmmaking. For this edition, the IndieWire Crafts team partnered with HBO to take a closer look at the Season 2 finale, Episode 10 of “ Succession ” — “This Is Not for Tears” — with creator Jesse Armstrong , executive producer and director Mark Mylod, actors Brian Cox and Jeremy Strong , as well as seven members of the crafts team.

It was the season finale that had everyone talking, with an ending that was both shocking and, in retrospect, a completely logical conclusion for Logan (Brian Cox), Kendall (Jeremy Strong), and the rest of the Roy family. Now climb aboard their $150 million yacht to find out how such a perfect episode of television was made.

In the podcast below, the filmmakers, along with actors Brian Cox and Jeremy Strong, pull back the curtain on filming the iconic “You’re not a killer” scene as well as Logan’s final smirk. Editor Bill Henry reveals the ways he needed to pull back in the editing room, even losing parts of scenes, to ensure what happens at the press conference remained a surprise, but still stayed true to Kendall’s journey to betray his father. Composer Nicholas Britell shares the music he wrote to capture the demons that brought Kendall to this dramatic decision.

You can listen to the podcast above, or by subscribing via Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or Overcast .

What you learn in the podcast above is how an episode of “Succession” gets made: How Armstrong intentionally over-writes episodes that he, Mylod, and the editors will trim whole scenes from in the editing room, as the show is allowed to constantly hone TV’s sharpest blade cuts. What’s remarkable — and is reflected in the video essays below — is how this applies at all stages of creation. “Succession” is a tightly structured piece of storytelling that is kept fresh by creatives who are constantly able to improvise and react to what unfolds. Adds Armstrong, “[Our] craftspeople are doing things that you couldn’t verbalize because they do them with rhythm. And they’re [involved] with all the choices that are there to be made, and you’re in sync with them — it just means that my work is much easier.”

Capturing the Roys: Revealing Reactions

On “Succession,” scenes are shot by two to three camera operators who are given a tremendous amount of freedom and encouragement to follow their instincts. Listening and reacting to characters, they pan and reframe to capture what they instinctively feel is most interesting. “The camera reacts with the speed of a human being rather than somebody who knows what’s going to happen next,” Armstrong said. “And that lets the comedy and drama play in a way which I think subliminally makes you feel like you’re in the room.”

This means the camera operators will often move off the character who is speaking, putting as much significance on those reacting to the speaker. “It isn’t just, ‘OK, grab that line.’ It’s as much about finding what’s going on underneath the surface,” Mark Mylod, who directed the Season 2 finale, said. The real gold is when the operators capture a character reacting “when they don’t think they’re being watched by other characters, but the camera is catching that moment, [and] we as an audience are let into their unconscious in a way. It’s a window into their souls.”

With three cameras rolling, scenes around the dinner table offer a lot of windows into a number of different souls. “With the amount that we shoot, and the number of cameras, and the number of takes when we have the time, and the level of improvisation and the subtlety of the actors who we’re working with,” Armstrong said, “it is infinite how you could cut the scenes. So, when I think of that, it makes me want to throw up.”

How to bring all these revealing moments together is the job of “Succession” editors Ken Eluto and BIll Henry. In the video essay above, Henry takes you inside the important breakfast table aboard Logan’s yacht in the Season 2 finale and explains how the syncopated rhythms of a scene like that are akin to cutting a musical.

The Gilded Cage: Crafting an Uncomfortable Luxury

It’s part of the DNA of “Succession” that viewers travel with the Roy family to places of extreme wealth and privilege. In a serialized narrative with virtually no standing sets, most new episodes take audiences somewhere new and extravagant, and the Season 2 finale is no exception as everyone climbs aboard Logan Roy’s $150 million yacht.

But how does the filmmaking team behind “Succession” avoid fetishizing the extreme wealth they’re satirizing? Just the act of peeling back the curtain on the extreme luxury we never get to see has a natural voyeuristic pleasure for the viewer.

In the video essay above, production designer Stephen Carter, executive producer and director Mark Mylod, cinematographer Patrick Capone, and series creator Jesse Armstrong analyze how a subtle use of filmmaking craft directs the viewer to focus on the discomfort the Roy family feels inside its gilded cages.

“We want to make sure that the audience, rather than being sort of seduced by the wealth porn side of things, really feels the neglect or the unimportance to them of all this expensive paraphernalia,” Carter said.

Not a Killer: Getting Into Kendall’s Head

There’s a darkness that hangs over Kendall Roy (Jeremy Strong) in Season 2 of “Succession.” Ever since the car crashed into the lake at the end of Season 1 — resulting in the death of the waiter and the subsequent cover-up of that death by Logan — Kendall has been mentally and spiritually tortured. In the video essay above, we go inside how Mylod and composer Nicholas Britell bring the viewer inside that torment by connecting it to the moment that caused it.

“Whenever we put the character in water, we make him vulnerable,” Mylod said. “We metaphorically crucify him, in the water.”

Composer Nicholas Britell describes the music he wrote for the Season 1 finale’s car crash as Kendall’s “true moment of darkness.” And it’s that music, “Kendall’s Return,” that the composer and editor Bill Henry bring back at key moments of Season 2 where that darkness, and the memory of the young man’s death, weighs particularly heavy on Kendall.

In fact, it’s that music that accompanies Kendall as he enters Logan’s state room for the famous “You have to be a killer” scene during the Season 2 finale. In the second part of this essay, we go behind the shooting of that scene with Mylod, Strong, Henry, and cinematographer Patrick Capone.

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Succession Season 2, Episode 10

At the end of last week’s “DC,” two things happened that should have immediately clued audiences to what was going to happen in Succession ’s season two finale, “This Is Not For Tears.” First, Kendall Roy (Jeremy Strong) delivered a fiery defense of his father Logan (Brian Cox) and the Waystar Royco brand during his congressional testimony regarding the company’s problematic cruise line and the sexual harassment allegations against its head.

And second? Moments before the closing credits began, Logan told his daughter Shiv (Sarah Snook) that someone from their inner circle had to be sacrificed to the media, the government and their shareholders to finally fix the cruise mess. Not just anyone, though, but a “blood sacrifice.” In other words, one of the series’ preeminent Roy kids — Kendall, Shiv or Roman (Kieran Culkin) — was going to bite the proverbial bullet by the time this season came to a close.

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Of course, it was going to be Kendall. It was always going to be Kendall.

Then again, for all the effort series creator Jesse Armstrong and the Succession writers put into laying the groundwork for Logan’s inevitable decision regarding his own son, they’ve also been planting an entirely different set of crops alongside these initial seeds. Much of the show’s first season was just as much about who Logan was going to pick to succeed him as it was about Kendall’s efforts to oust his father in a hostile takeover.

And though the vehicular manslaughter he caused at the end of season one, and Logan’s engineered coverup of it in the second season premiere ultimately tanked these efforts, Kendall never really could have forgotten what his original intentions were. Sure, much of this season has been about portraying Kendall’s transformation into a soulless shell of a human being who is more than willing to do anything his father tells him . But does this mindless devotion extend to self-flagellation on such a massive scale? Yes and no.

Logan and the aforementioned Roy kids, along with eldest son Connor (Alan Ruck), cousin Greg (Nicholas Braun), Shiv’s cuckold husband Tom (Matthew Macfadyen) and the rest of the Waystar Royco legal and public relations teams meet off-and-on aboard the family’s massive yacht in the Mediterranean to discuss options. Many, including the always-willing-to-speak Roman, think Greg and Tom — who actually did try to cover up the cruise scandal (under orders, of course) and totally botched their respective congressional testimonies — should take the hit. It’s “half an idea” per Logan’s estimation, but he and almost everyone else there know it’s not enough. Especially Shiv, who goes to her father amid a brewing personal crisis with Tom to make sure he knows this.

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“Why not what he discussed?” she reminds him. “Ken hurts,” her father admits in turn. “He was across the whole thing. It hurts. It plays, obviously.”

So, when Logan finally tells Kendall — albeit in a roundabout way, at first — of his decision to lay the blame on him, it actually does seem to hurt the otherwise emotionally distant Roy patriarch. The camera even goes in and out of focus on occasion, becoming blurry and clear again, almost as if a tear or two are breaking the episode title’s explicit rule against mournful emotions.

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“It’s okay dad,” Kendall tells his father once he realizes what’s happening. “It’s okay.”

“Thank you, son,” Logan responds. “The hearings, you did so well. But now you’re the face. You were across the cleanup. The optics make sense. And, what’s more, I trust you. I trust you in case it turns and gets nasty.”

Like with the dissolution of the digital media company Vaulter in this season’s second episode, along with plenty of other examples, Kendall immediately agrees with his father’s decision and goes along with it, though he does ask him if he ever thought he could do it. If he ever thought he was good enough to succeed him and lead Waystar Royco into the future. “You’re not a killer,” Logan tells him. And that’s the moment when those who have been paying complete attention to Kendall’s scheming, its implosion and his continuously downward spiral should have known what would happen in the episode’s final moments. Yes, he goes before the press to supposedly admit his wrongdoing regarding the cruise scandal. After all, is father is watching. Instead, Kendall plunges the dagger meant for himself into Logan, Waystar Royco and pretty much everyone else we could consider his flesh and blood.

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“I have been asked to explain my own role in the managing of illegality at the firm and associated coverups, and it has been suggested I would be a suitable figure to absorb the anger and concern,” he begins before going off-script. “But the truth is, my father is a malignant presence, a bully and a liar. He was fully personally aware of these events for many years and made efforts to hide and cover-up. He had a twisted sense of loyalty to bad actors like Lester McClintock.”

“This is the day his reign ends,” Kendall concludes as the room erupts in a flurry of shouted questions from the gathered press.

Cue Succession ’s Emmy Award-winning theme music and an amazingly calm Logan, watching the press conference aboard his yacht with a bewildered Shiv and Roman. They cannot believe what they’re watching, but according to the slow smile spreading across Logan’s face, it’s not all that fanciful. It turns out, he was completely wrong about Kendall. He is a killer.

Succession airs on HBO.

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‘It Hurts, But It Plays’: How ‘Succession’ Executed a Near-Perfect Season 2

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You always love the ones you hurt.

History will tell whether Succession is a genuinely great, canon-worthy HBO show or merely the most compelling flaming-Maybach-wreck-in-progress on TV right now. But there are a few things we can more or less agree on. Jesse Armstrong’s lifestyles-of-the-rich-and-toxic drama started slow in Season One and eventually built to a strong finish. Its second season was leagues better, finally discovering the show it wanted to be; it was less a course correction than locating the proper curve of the Roys’ collective instability and leaning in to it. And, now that Round 2 is said and done, this sophomore season may not be remembered primarily for “boar on the floor!,” the L to O.G. rap ( viva Ken.W.A! ), the art-imitates-life-imitates-headlines of the Vaulter dismantling , hyperdecanting, or even an iPad angrily tossed into the sea. It may come down to a single word, uttered with such emphasis you can practically see the italics, in the finale. It ends not with a bang but with a “ But …”.

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Succession kicked off Season 2 with Kendall Roy making a zombified TV appearance, pushed in front of a camera and blankly mouthing soundbites his handlers have provided him, all the better to calm the stockholders. “Dad’s plan was better,” he intoned, almost able to muster a weak smile as a few more ounces of his soul leaked out. It concludes with “Ken Doll” once again staring into a lens, once again given a script to read, once again trying to assure the board that everything is going to be fine. And then, the No. 1 Boy announces that though he’s been picked to be the fall guy, everything from the cover-up of cruise-ship deaths to the corporate malfeasance — it’s all Logan’s fault. For someone who micromanages every aspect of his company, the notion that the patriarch behind it all not be aware of these crimes is ludicrous, Kendall suggests. “My father’s reign ends today,” he says. Dad’s plan, apparently, was not better this time.

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Whether you believe this whole turn of events was part of Logan’s ultimate plan or not, however, depends on just how Machiavellian and omnipotent you think this media titan is. This whole season has revolved largely around the paterfamilias engaging in his favorite pastime, i.e. gathering together his children, their significant others and various key lackeys in a location (a Hungarian hunting lodge, the Roys’ summer home, a pre-celebration toast in Scotland) and letting them tear each other apart. The sheer viciousness of the backbiting, not to mention the choice one-liners  — “You can’t make a Tomelette without breaking some Gregs”; the writing team has outdone themselves this season — have kept these Darwinian set pieces from becoming nothing but humiliate, blame, grovel, repeat. In the finale, the battle royale octagon of choice is a yacht in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea; no word on whether they’re anchored in international waters, but Logan’s Law rules regardless.

Everyone knows heads are going to roll after that disastrous hearing, in which numerous folks shat various beds. After a helicopter drops Logan off at the boat, he announces that everyone should have a great time tonight. Tomorrow, they’ll get together “and have a chat” about what happens now. (The fact that judgment regarding who’s going to take the blame for deaths on a cruise ship will be rendered on a gigantic floating playground is a nice touch.) Attempts to go private have failed. The shareholders have already suggested that Logan resigning is the only solution they 100-percent approve of. The next morning, he casually introduces the idea and gets the requisite “no way,” “we need the appearance of stability,” etc. So whose head gets put on the spike?, Logan asks. And then the screaming starts.

The round robin of finger-pointing that follows is fairly predictable. Family members suggest Gerri, Francis and Karl — longtime loyalists but not blood relations. The idea of a bundled sacrifice is floated; maybe Gerri and Tom, “with some Greg sprinkles”? Still not “a big enough skull” for the bloodthirsty board. Each of the Roys, including Connor, put themselves forward as the one to go and then methodically walk their own suggestion back, looking at Dad to make sure he notices their willingness to take the hit. Shiv suggests Tom, which proves to be the final nail in the already hammered-down coffin that is their marriage. (Side note to the couple’s ongoing matrimonial death rattle: We hope the sales of Sally Rooney novels will go through the roof. ) There’s a lot of “I fucking love you, man, but…” preambles before a new sacrificial lamb is prepped for slaughter.

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There’s a part of you, the viewer, that just inherently knows whose head will eventually be on the chopping block — the same one we saw floating, almost disembodied, out of an Icelandic hot spring way back in the season premiere. “It hurts, but it plays,” Logan admits when Shiv mentions the family fuck-up is a prime candidate for a killing. A broken, mumbling man-shaped ruin, Kendall has spent nine episodes wallowing in guilt over accidentally killing a civilian, relapsing, wooing an actress (then thoughtlessly wrecking her career), dismissing his new girlfriend whenever Logan casts a disapproving look and generally skulking about. Season One was about him trying unsuccessfully to grab what he felt was rightfully his, by hook, crook or hostile takeover. Season Two appeared, on the surface, to be about his penance while everybody else took their shot. His siblings played the game of thrones. He opted to sit on the bench.

So when Shiv silently whispers something to Tom after meeting with her father, then pivots toward her brother, we see where this is going. Sorry, lad, says Logan. It’s got to be you. I deserve this, Kendall replies, then asks: But could I have been a good head honcho? Pops hems and haws. Then he focuses his gaze on his son: “You’re not a killer.” Kendall nods. He embraces Dad. Then, one Fredo kiss later, he leaves to fulfill his duties and his destiny. I would fall on my sword for my family. But … .

Which brings us back to Logan’s endgame, and whether, by telling Kendall that he had no killer instinct, he’s inherently gifted him with one. If you go back and view the episode again, knowing where everything is headed, you can see how Armstrong and Co. have laid the groundwork. And should you rewatch what has been a near-perfect second season of a show, which we highly recommend, what strikes you is how everything really does seem to have been leading up to that shot of Kendall staring, Big Brother-like, from a flat screen; that one loaded conjunction; and the tiny smile that curls on Logan’s lips. The past 10 episodes have been an abundance of beautiful bitchery and 1-percent-behaving-badly — not just the “boar on the floor” incident, but the Oedipal dirty talk, the Conn-head memes, every single scene in which Holly Hunter spits venom through a lockjaw grin. They’ve also reminded you that it doesn’t matter whether the Roys are avatars for the Murdochs, the Redstones or our current first family; the rich are unlike you and me, but they are the same type of bastards. Whoever wins, we all lose…including the Roys. (Older shows about the rich and powerful acted as escapism. Never mind the fancy estates and luxury excursions; Succession makes being part of the modern aristocracy look fucking miserable.)

Yet to see that smile break across Logan’s face introduces a whole level of complexity into the second season — the idea that he was not looking for a successor so much as the perfect executioner. He maneuvered Kendall, or perhaps backed him into a corner, to the point where patricide was the only path forward. For a show about legacy, it makes complete sense — and turns this second season from the sum of its gleefully ghoulish parts into one thrilling whole. The No. 1 Boy has become the No. 1 Roy. Whatever happens next, we’ve leveled up to an entirely new category of Prestige TV shitshow.

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Let's recap all the drama from the 'Succession' season 2 finale before you start those new episodes

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Our favorite dysfunctional billionaires are back! Succession season 3 kicked off on October 17, but before you click play on those fresh-from-the-oven episodes, let's catch up with the Roys and everything that happened in that drama-filled Succession season 2 finale, which aired a whopping two years ago due to COVID-related delays. 

Could you believe what Kendall did during that press conference? Or how bumbling Cousin Greg has turned into a veritable power player? What do you think is going to happen with Tom and Shiv's marriage? 

From the core Roys to the schemers that encircle them, here's a complete refresher on how did season 2 of Succession end, just in time for new episodes to hit HBO Max .

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'Succession' season 2 finale: What went down?

Season two of Succession simultaneously dealt both with the rise of Logan Roy's successor—would it be Kendall, Siobhan, Roman or, LOL, Connor?—and with the potential downfall of the media empire that he ruthlessly built over the years, as rumor has it that the company's cruise ship division has been acting as a major cover-up for serious crimes, including murder and sexual assault. 

The Succession season 2 finale, entitled "This is Not for Tears," finds the Roy family and its Waystar Royco cohorts on a—what else?—luxury yacht strategizing which member of the clan would be offered up as a "blood sacrifice" to take the fall for the cruise scandal ahead of the shareholders' meeting. 

Would it be Logan himself, like the investors suggest? Unlikely. How about Tom, Shiv's husband and the head of Waystar Royco’s amusement park and cruise division, with "some Greg sprinkles"? Maybe Roman, who's "widely known as a terrible person"?

In the end, they decide on middle son Kendall Roy, who had already spent the better part of season two acting as his dad's punching bag. According to the plan, Kendall would take the blame for the cruise division crisis and announce his resignation from Waystar Royco during a news conference. Instead, Kendall pulls a total 180 and publicly betrays his father, revealing to the press that he has hard evidence—remember those damning documents that Cousin Greg filched before Tom could destroy them?—that Logan not only knew about the criminal cruise cover-ups, but he personally signed off on them. 

"The truth is that my father is a malignant presence, a bully and a liar...this is the day his reign ends," Kendall tells the press, ripping up the pre-approved statement Logan wanted him to read, as the rest of the Roy dynasty watches the televised report in shock. The final shot of Succession season 2? A close-up of Logan Roy with a hint of a Mona Lisa smile on his face, whether out of being stunned or impressed, we don't know.

Backstabbing, boardroom drama, big-ass boats—what more could you want from a Succession finale? You'll have to watch season three to find out how that epic cliffhanger plays out.

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Where to find Midas in Fortnite Chapter 5 season 2

With patch 29.01, Midas has returned to the  Fortnite  island, and you can find him during your games. Here’s where to find Midas in  Fortnite  Chapter Five, season two.

Ascendant Midas location in Fortnite Chapter 5 season 2

Ascendant Midas is located at  The Marigold yacht on the west shore of the island . Look a bit below The Underworld, where Hades lives, and you’ll see the yacht on the edge of the map. Once you land on the yacht,  look for Midas on the top deck . He’s usually walking back and forth and will be marked on your screen with a text bubble icon.

If you have gold to spare, you can buy an  Epic Drum Gun  that returns in patch 29.01 for 300 gold or  heal yourself  for 50 gold. At the time of writing, Ascendant Midas is an NPC and not a boss. If you eliminate him, he’ll drop a Rare Drum Gun and reappear as a hologram, just like any other NPC on the island. 

It’s unclear whether we’ll be able to get our hands on the  rumored Mythic Midas Drum Gun , but it may be introduced later in the season. The weapon could related to the Rise of Midas questline, which kicked off alongside Midas’s return to the island. Currently, only the first of five phases of quests is available in  Fortnite,  and as the story unfolds, we might get both the Mythic weapon and a new enemy to fight.

Fortnite leaker  FNAssist mentioned  that the Drum Gun will be obtainable from a “Pow boss.” While we don’t know what this boss is, it’s seemingly not in the game at the time of writing. Instead, all the attention is directed at the Floor is Lava LTM, which has its own series of quests to complete and rewards to earn.

Fortnite Midas & Marigold Map Locations: Where To Find Them

M idas is back in Fortnite and is now named "Ascendant Midas" . However, he's not a boss on the map as predicted, but an NPC. Marigold and Midas have also received new story quests in Fortnite. We'll show you where to find them.

Fortnite: Marigold Map Location

Marigold is located in the south of the map since the beginning of the Chapter 5 Season 2. In the east of Snooty Steppes, she can be found in the Seaside Villa. She has a Ranger Pistol and the new Wings of Icarus for you.

Additionally, you can complete a Quest from "Rise of Midas" there. If you have already collected 200 Gold Bars and inspected Midas' Jail Cell in The Underworld, you can speak to Marigold to finish the mission.

Fortnite: Ascendant Midas Map Location

Midas has returned to Fortnite as Ascendant Midas. After breaking out of his jail cell, he now stands on the Marigold Yacht in the west of the map. The Marigold Yacht is in the southwest of the new Underworld biome.

Midas location could become interesting for upcoming Rise of Midas quests, but until then, he serves as an NPC. He sells you an epic Drum Gun and can heal you as well. You'll find him on the top deck of the yacht.

Marigold's Yacht And Midas Jail Cell: All Map Changes

The new update brought not only Midas to Fortnite but also a few small map changes. We show you what has changed on the Fortnite Map.

The Marigold Yacht

On Marigold's Yacht, there are now three changes in Fortnite:

• Open Vault: The vault on The Marigold Yacht is now open, like many other vaults on the map
• Midas Statue: The statue on the yacht has been replaced. The Midas symbol was removed, and Midas has placed his own statue, of course in gold.
• Midas Service Station: At the new service station , you can upgrade your weapons to legendary rarity for 500 gold, heal yourself , or use a Rift .

The Underworld - Midas Jail Cell

In The Underworld, the cell from which Midas escaped has opened. This is important for a quest from the story quests "Rise of Midas" . You can find it by entering the main building, on the middle floor.

And that's all about the locations of Marigold and Midas, as well as the minor map changes we've seen on the Fortnite map. We wish you a lot of fun in Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 2 and with the new Midas quests.