It becomes important to make sure that we’re reading the show correctly. In response, power rankings, winners and losers, listicles and ledgers circulate weekly as wedges creating distance from the show’s affective reach. The Roy siblings have everything, so they want what they can’t have: for Logan to name them worthy and whole.īut feeling for and with miserable billionaires can get uncomfortable. Logan’s children - Kendall, Siobhan (“Shiv”), Roman, and Connor - vie for his affection, or at least his respect, but never reside in his good graces long. The company includes various kinds of news outlets (including an analogue of Fox News), media companies, movie production companies, theme parks, and cruise lines. The patriarch, Logan Roy, founded one of the largest media conglomerates in the world, Waystar Royco. Succession, created by Jesse Armstrong, is about a family, the Roys, and their inner circle (most of whom are relatives or long-time employees of the family business). The comic form sweetens the nasty after-taste of the Roys’ resemblance to real-life moguls and billionaire families taking up so much oxygen on all sides of America’s political stage. The characters are rendered palatable, even alluring, with the seductive comforts of the show’s comedic timing, one-liners, and punchline reaction shots. Everything is funny, especially what others take seriously.įor viewers, humor smooths the bumpy ride through Succession’s ethical minefield. When they work together, it’s a truce, and when they don’t, that’s life.
The Roy children, whose love language is withering insults and double-crossing, balance family on comedy’s knife-edge. In short, the Roys represent the capricious and petty powers available to the wealthiest people in America.Īnd we haven’t gotten to the things they do to each other. This is a non-exhaustive list of terrible things the Roy family has done on HBO’s Succession: fired people on a whim, taunted young children, berated service staff fostered hostile work environments by using employees as ottomans and forcing executives to bark like dogs acquired and shut down a media company for sport, leaving hundreds unemployed produced a news channel that promotes tribalism and misinformation pursued monopolistic control in the worlds of televisual and print news.
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