Is the best series on television – yes, we are talking about “Heirs”, of course – about to end after only four seasons? A little over a month before the start of the new season, series star Jeremy Strong, who plays troubled son Kendall Roy, hints that it is. In a major interview given to GQ magazine, Strong – along with his usual philosophical musings and quotes from Jung, Kafka and Meryl Streep – dropped a rather thick hint that the series is coming to an end. “Strong filmed the last two episodes of the season in January, which could be the last episodes of the series, period,” the article reads. Later Strong himself talks about breaking up with Kendall: “It will feel like death, in a way,” he tells the interviewer in his typical dramatic tone. “I envy the freedom to just shoot myself out of all kinds of cannons. Sometimes Kendall feels like the same cannon, over and over again… When I was young, I saw the future as a crosshair. I don’t feel that way anymore. I have a feeling of ‘what now?’ for which I have no answer.”
fuzzy? Absolutely, but this is typical of Strong, who tends to say both too much and too little in interviews. This statement, on the one hand, joins the multitude of statements made by the stars and creators of the series over the years that they have no intention of continuing it forever. In an interview given during the broadcast of the third season, Brian Cox (Logan Roy) said that the series will probably end after the fifth season; The producer Georgia Pritchett also said about two years ago that the series would end after five seasons, although the original plan of creator Jesse Armstrong was indeed to end it after four – but its tremendous success (which only increases from season to season) and, presumably, Pressure from HBO – they made him change his mind. So did anything change during the writing of season four? It is very possible, and there is also another possibility: Strong means that he filmed his last two episodes in the series. After all, Kendall almost died in a car accident at the end of season one and also almost drowned in a pool at the end of season three. Kill the main character and continue for another season? If there is one series that is capable of this, it is “Heirs”.
The last season of “Heirs” ended, as you remember, with a dramatic change of the family battlefield for control of the Weister-Royko corporation: the brothers and sister Roy (Kendall, Roman and Shiv) found themselves, for a change, on the same side – with Logan, the family patriarch, on the other side The dictator, ousted them from their places on the company’s board when he changed his divorce agreement with their mother. The few teasers released so far from the season hint at an all-out war between the parties – so in a way, it’s business as usual for “Heirs”.