The Logan family, their conquest strategies, and their greedy children are back. Will the third season be their redemption?&nbsp;

Have they discovered the benefits of transcendental meditation? Generosity? Empathy? Kindness? Bequeathed all their fortune to NGOs? It is&nbsp;impossible for us to unveil all the details of <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/film-tv/hbo-succession-season-3-trailer-release-date-details" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Succession Season 3,</a> out on October 17. But it comes as no surprise that the Logans indeed remain faithful to what made them the most fascinating characters in recent memory.&nbsp;

Created by Jesse Armstrong, Succession speaks volumes about power, those who possess it, and, above all, of its effects. With biblical and Shakespearean motifs passing through, the creators of the series have drawn monsters of vanity, arrogance, and greed, with a certain talent for capturing a world closed to prosaic problems, clinging to its privileges, incessantly anxious to obtain more and more.

During the first seven episodes of this new season, the mechanics of this astonishing ballet seize up and the caricature lurks. Less surprising, the narrative threads get tangled a little, the story seems constrained by the previous seasons to push the cursor of adventure to force the arc of the characters that we have understood as hopelessly vile at this stage of their adventures. This lack of nuance, the inability to decline a richer emotional palette, to vary the tones, freeze the characters, and the narration henceforth seems to obey an equation absently summing up cheap blows, betrayals, and pettiness in the hope of forcibly summoning the poisonous charm of previous seasons. 
Stuck in its habits, it loses its intoxicating scent, its corrosive power. While it still has moments of fun, its lack of ambiguity weighs heavily. The cast, all of them impeccable, led by the extraordinary Brian Cox and Jeremy Cox, deserved a little better than embodying stereotypes that had become too predictable&mdash;especially the female characters with lazy outlines. In 1996, the wonderful and fleeting Profit&nbsp;series more sensitively portrayed a comparable universe with more depth of field, even delicacy, in the sight of the most brutal greed. One thinks of these words of Leonard Cohen: "And the dealer, in this case, wants you thinking that it's either black or white. Thank God it's not that simple, in my secret life. As an artist, the nuance is your task. Your task is not to simplify."

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