From Los Angeles to Norway: Inside the Filming Locations of ‘Succession,’ ‘Welcome to Chippendales’ and More of This Year’s Biggest Dramas

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Todd Longwell This year’s batch of Emmy-nominated series is rich with visually arresting locations that subtly buttress dramatic themes and flesh out the lives of its leading men, from the Altadena Craftsman that serves as the home of grieving therapist Jimmy (Jason Segal) in Apple TV+’s “Shrinking” to the California prisons (the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi and the Stark Youth Training Facility in Chino) that house Bill Hader’s title character in HBO’s “Barry” to the downtown L.A.

high rise where covert-agent-on-the-lam Dan Chase (Jeff Bridges) lives when he’s posing as a wealthy investor in FX’s “The Old Man.” And, it turns out, choosing a location is not dissimilar to casting an actor, with looks, price, and personality all factoring into the decision.

For the fourth and final season of HBO’s “Succession,” the production traveled from its New York City base in search of a locale to stage a confab between the Roy siblings and Swedish tech mogul Lukas Matsson (Alexander Skarsgård) that was appropriately majestic, intimidating and exotic.

They settled on Norway, where they shot on Atlantic Ocean Road (featured in the 2021 Bond film “No Time to Die”), the Romsdalen Gondola (used in the show) and, most significant, the Juvet Landscape Hotel (previously seen in the 2014 sci-fi drama “Ex Machina”), whose sales tagline is “leave the world behind.” Designed by Norwegian architectural firm Jensen & Skodvin, the Juvet features a collection of wood and glass cabins with spectacular views of the surrounding forest and lake.