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After a long hiatus, you can finally catch up with the Roy family’s opulent chaos when Succession Season 3 hits HBO Max this October. While more disastrous dinner fights and extravagant excursions are definitely in the offing when the series returns, don’t expect to hear about the coronavirus at Waystar Royco. According to a new Vulture report, creator Jesse Armstrong decided early on that Season 3’s scripts wouldn’t be rewritten to include the pandemic.

“These are really wealthy people,” said Sarah Snook, who plays Shiv Roy. “And unfortunately, none of the world’s wealthy people were going to be affected by the pandemic.”

Yet as the Vulture story notes, the pandemic certainly impacted Succession — cast members Alan Ruck and Brian Cox contracted the virus, and actor Mark Blum, who played cruise-division executive Bill Lockhart, died of COVID-related complications in March 2020.

The third season was finally able to begin production in November 2020. Earlier this summer, the cast and crew headed to Italy, where their dreams of filming the final episodes became a reality keeping in line with Succession‘s habit of wrapping up its season abroad (Season 1 ended in an English castle, while Season 2 wrapped up on location in the Aegean Sea and Croatia).

“Italy, by summer’s [end] was always the plan,” the Vulture report continued. “There were alternatives if traveling there became unfeasible — the U.K., Massachusetts, Northern California — but by May 2021, it seemed safely doable, especially given House of Gucci‘s successfully completed European shoot.”

In July, HBO unveiled the first teaser for Succession Season 3, as the Roys navigate the fallout of Kendall’s (Jeremy Strong) shocking betrayal of family patriarch Logan (Brian Cox) in the final moments of Season 2. The series also stars Kieran Culkin, Matthew Macfadyen, Hiam Abbass, Nicholas Braun, and J. Smith-Cameron. The new season will also feature notable additions like Adrien Brody, Alexander Skarsgård, and Sanaa Lathan.

Succession received 18 nominations at the 2020 Emmy Awards, taking home the awards for Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Directing, and Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama for Strong.

Scroll up to watch the first teaser for Succession Season 3, and get ready for a pandemic-free Roy Family Civil War.

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