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- 2018
- TV-MA
- HBO
- 2018
- TV-MA
- HBO
Summary When Logan Roy (Brian Cox) announces his plans to step back from running the family's multi-national entertainment company, a feud over who will be have control causes tension among his four children.
Created By: Jesse Armstrong
- 2018
- TV-MA
- HBO
- 2018
- TV-MA
- HBO
Succession
Season 1 Premiere: May 6, 2018
8.4
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Summary When Logan Roy (Brian Cox) announces his plans to step back from running the family's multi-national entertainment company, a feud over who will be have control causes tension among his four children.
Created By: Jesse Armstrong
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 110 Critic Reviews
85
89% Positive
98 Reviews
98 Reviews
10% Mixed
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
1% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 110 Critic Reviews
85
89% Positive
98 Reviews
98 Reviews
10% Mixed
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
1% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Succession’s final season starts spectacularly strong, with equal parts high-stakes drama and laugh-out-loud comedy. Powerhouse performances from the Roy clan offer a dazzling masterclass of buttoned-up emotions competing with years of desperately craving approval from the family patriarch.
Succession somehow only gets better in its third season, giving us more relentless nastiness, ridiculous humor, and remarkable performances. This is the stuff great TV is made of.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 681 User Ratings
8.4
86% Positive
589 Ratings
589 Ratings
6% Mixed
44 Ratings
44 Ratings
7% Negative
48 Ratings
48 Ratings
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 681 User Ratings
8.4
86% Positive
589 Ratings
589 Ratings
6% Mixed
44 Ratings
44 Ratings
7% Negative
48 Ratings
48 Ratings
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.
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Despite the strength of its ensemble cast, Succession is a feat of writing above all. ... Succession aims to show us that the world of these capitalist monarchs is cruel, funny, and desperately sad, and on the strength of this first episode succeeds entirely.
While it's fair to wonder if this is a crown worth inheriting, frequent Shakespearean allusions remind us how timeless is the appeal of these sagas of wealth, raw ambition, power and influence. [19 Aug - 1 Sep 2019, p.12]
Everything we want and need is still here. ... The opening episodes of each season of Succession tend to subsume the family dynamic in the corporate intrigue, because there are always so many pieces not just to set up but to explain to a lay audience. This seems to have opted for a more equal balance.
Succession doesn’t have a tonal problem, necessarily--the comedy and drama mostly complement each other—but rather a fundamental challenge: making some really shitty people the kind you’d want to visit with week after week. The series, then, is best appreciated not as a glimpse into the lives of media moguls and unsavory billionaires, but as a high-stakes family drama, one whose fights, backstabs, and reconciliations have the potential to ripple throughout the world.
Dull, dreary and dubiously written, Succession isn't much of a success. ... It's just a group of vacuous rich people shouting at each other, probably not making much of a sound.
Rating: 100
Season Ranked:
1. Season 2 Rating: 100 (Masterpiece)
2. Season 3
Rating: 100 (Masterpiece)
3. Season 4
Rating: 100 (Masterpiece)
4. Season 1
Rating: 100 (Masterpiece)
Full Series Review:
Succession is a excellent series with great writing and direction, Stunning cinematography, and phenomenal performances from the entire cast
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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.
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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.
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Production Company:
- Gary Sanchez Productions
- Project Zeus
- Hyperobject Industries
Initial Release Date: May 6, 2018
Number of seasons: 4 Seasons
Rating: TV-MA
Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 9 Wins & 18 Nominations
Primetime Emmy Awards
• 19 Wins & 75 Nominations
Online Film & Television Association
• 21 Wins & 69 Nominations
