It relaunched with all cylinders firing and spitting. There was no quality drop.

[Season 2] takes the show to a level of insight and theatricality that rivals anything else on television this year. ... In case it’s unclear: Season 2 is extraordinary. Jesse Armstrong, the show’s creator, finds new levels of horror to mine in Succession’s autopsy of the ultrarich, but he also finds pathos, which elevates the show even further.

Its eagerness to condemn the country’s terrifying trajectory, along with its efficiency and artistry, is what makes the drama great — the fun it has doing so is what makes it one-of-kind.

One of TV’s best shows. In Season 2, “Succession” continues to demonstrate that unlikable characters can make for riveting TV. ... “Succession” is good, nasty fun.

This is a show of substance, an excellent story for a troubling moment in history, but it’s also just a very good time. The Roys are terrible people, but they make for excellent guests—on the screen in one’s living room, if nowhere else.

The new season is less funny than the first but more urgent.

While dark humor and palace intrigue are the cornerstones of Succession, season two develops a sense of lingering melancholy that, while not aimed at making its main characters more sympathetic, imparts a poignancy to the never-ending conflicts within the Roy family.

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Wow! Such fun! Characters:A ; Plot:A ; Writing:A ; Comedy:A ; Plot Twists: A+ ; Insane sub-plots:A !!! What a fulfilling barrel of uproarious demented crassness! It's Hollywood meets Wall Street with nick of Silicon Valley hubris.

Indeed one of the best productions of HBO, also with the most Dostoevsky-esque set of characters. Just the ability of the show to capture the different layers and grievances in the room and the amazingly depicted power struggles, all while the characters gracefully and somewhat psychotically travel across the yachts, the penthouses and hideouts. The ebbs and the flows of this show feel genuine and honest, and with a somewhat conservative approach yet timely way to surprise the viewers the writers manage to keep the story wonderfully intact. Adding the pitch dark humor and bewitching dialogue to the mix and it's starting to feel like a masterpiece,

Starting to get unwatchable, but certainly a insight into the very rich, even if, with the exception of some quirks of the "liberal" news organization family, not balanced.

"Professional" critics claim to see a much-needed savage depiction of the excess of capitalism, an indictment of the 0.0001%, of the corruption of the elites, evil old white men... blah blah blah. All things considered, it amounts to a mere escapist entertainment (the acting is great, the jokes are original and the pace of the action is engrossing) because it is a totally unrealistic, simplistic and often very stupid farce. The characters are grotesque and painted with so broad a stroke, it is clear the objective is not to really go into a modern day "Balzacian" realistic depiction of modern day high-flying financiers and corporate intrigues. The average American viewer would get lost. Well, at least if it can make the liberal middle-class feel good about itself, the ruling class can relax in its contempt for it! Plebs rejoice! Panem et circenses...