Succession

A show about a bunch of obnoxious evil billionaires and I **** love them. A show with incredible acting performances throughout the entire cast, a more subtle humor that hits almost everytime, incredible character dynamics and a great story showing generational family trauma.

Some shows really are overrated. To me, this is one of them. I feel like a lot of praise of this show is driven by its socio economic 1% demographic. The show is so in love with the wealthy that i has product placement for banks. Half the time, I could have been watching the old “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous”. Mansions look nice but they have no life. We poor people really live. The show starts out like “The Office” with every character playing Micheal Scott. All of them are as incompetent as they are entitled. We have decades of data that shows us that nepotism does not work, and yet all of the successors think it will be different for them. There is an appealing dark comedy throughout this show. It just needed more of that and less of the rich people being terrible rich people. Later, the show leans into the Fox News stand in and becomes tragic and appalling. None of the characters are ever at any time appealing. At least Micheal Scott had his sympathetic moments. Maybe I was “hate watching” this show. I really wanted to see them all fail. I would have loved to see them end up poor but that’s just a poor man’s **** story lines for the characters go round and round on the same theme of using wealth to mask incompetence. (Shiv may be the smartest character but also the most deluded as to her worth to her father’s company). The show has a corporate storyline that cuts a few corners on legality, regulatory review, and shareholder voice. We see a lot of mergers and acquisitions but very little actual increase in value. Although this could be part of the point of the show, I doubt the corporate shenanigans were anything more than a plot device. All-in-all, I can see why this show may have Emmy nominations for some of the actors. I just never saw this show as more than background while I was doing something else.

I don’t get why this series gets such high appraise. Every character in this series is as competent as Joe Biden as President. It’s a joke.

Infuriating psychopathic people constantly changing their mind to blow deals and backstab each other. I don't think a single deal got made this entire show. The plot is meaningless. Avoid.

It's truly amazing to me that a show with such on screen talent can be both incredibly unfunny, mean spirited and boring. Dirty Sexy Money did it much better for the theme. In terms of remaking King Lear, Ran did it best. Avoid this feel bad show if you have self respect.