Succession Season 1

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Succession S1 arrived to modest critical fanfare - 89% RT, respectable but not deafening - and then word of mouth turned it into the decade's prestige obsession. Jesse Armstrong's pilot establishes the Roy family as a comedy of cruelty: Logan (Brian Cox) summons his children to assess their fitness for succession, and the verdict is quietly damning of all of them. The humour is Shakespearean in its mode - characters funny because they are awful and awful because they want things they cannot name. Cox and Jeremy Strong (Kendall) anchor the patriarch-son tension that powers the whole series. Critics noted the show was funnier and meaner than expected from a HBO drama. The slow build here is essential: the show is mapping the psychic damage of extreme wealth, and it cannot rush that cartography.

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