Succession Season 4 Episode 5 enthralling filming spots UNVEILED: See

This article contains spoilers for Succession season 4 episode 5.

If there’s one thing we know about Succession, it’s definitely extending HBO’s travel budget to the limit.

The drama follows the lives of the disgustingly rich Roy family and it shoots in rich places.

With season 4 episode 5 Kill List, however, the show’s location scouts truly outdo themselves.

In the story: Almost immediately following the death of their father and Waystar Royco leader Logan Roy (Brian Cox), the Roy siblings are cruelly forced by GoJo CEO Lucas Matsson (Alexander Skarsgård) to come visit him in Scandinavia for a corporate retreat to close their all-important Waystar acquisition. While Matsson himself is Swedish, said retreat will be held in Norway. Tom (Matthew Macfadyen) explains the reasoning for the location to Cousin Greg (Nicholas Braun) in crude terms.

“What’s the difference?” Tom asks of Sweden and Norway. “They’re all descended from the same rapists.”

A pre-season interview with Variety, Succession producer Scott Ferguson revealed that the decision to shoot in Norway wasn’t quite so unexpected.

“Norway is a glorious, natural setting,” Ferguson said. “It immediately seemed like a perfect place for a family gathering in the series. We studied different countries, but we realized Norway just has this exceptional landscape — like nowhere else in the world.”

Norway indeed provides an exceptional landscape for Kill List. And aforementioned Variety interview and some other useful online sleuthing, the major filming locations for Succession season 4 episode 5 are revealed. 

Take a look below.

Atlantic Ocean Road

Every exotic new location on a TV show or movie deserves an appropriately stunning establishing shot. For Succession season 4’s fifth episode, producers chose to visually announce that Norway is the spot with the help of the Atlantic Ocean Road.

The Atlantic Ocean Road is an 8.3-kilometer stretch of County Road 64 that runs across several islands on an archipelago before arriving in western Norwegian on the Scandinavian peninsula.

Juvet Landscape Hotel

Much of the action in Kill List takes place at the Juvet Landscape Hotel. The hotel, located in Valldal, takes the “landscape” portion of its name quite seriously. 

Made up of seven distinct cubes that sit on stilts, the rooms of the campus are designed to blend in seamlessly with nature, something that was understandably appealing to the Succession team.

“When we saw images of the remarkable architecture and setting of Juvet we got really excited,” Ferguson insisted.

The hotel has previously served as the setting for the entirety of Alex Garland’s 2014 sci-fi film Ex Machina. 

Kendall (Jeremy Strong) and Roman (Kieran Culkin) seem a little annoyed by the size of their rooms but we cannot imagine anyone else would object to being placed in the middle of the Norwegian countryside and given access to lush shelter and a three-course dinner. 

According to Reservations.com, a stay in one of the Landscape rooms will run you a scant 6400 Norwegian kroner or 600 USD a night.

Romsdalen Gondola

The climactic scene of Kill List takes place above a very cinematic mountain called Nesaksla. 

To get there, Succession production utilized the services of the Romsdalen Gondola or Romsdalsgondolen. 

This is an electric cable car that ascends nearly 1700 meters into the air to provide all of its passengers with a 365-degree view of the Romsdalen mountains.

Kieran Culkin said in HBO’s post-episode feature. “When we were done we went down to the base and I went ‘wait a minute, people were telling me how beautiful it was up there.’ So I took a stroll back up to the top of the mountain and went ‘oh wow, it’s really lovely up here. This is really great.'”