Succession (2018)

“Succession” is crisper, funnier, and more confident than ever. ... It may be rocky waters for the Roy family, but it’s smooth sailing for the show about them.

The show’s presentation remains impeccable; Mark Mylod and the other directors capture the bizarre largesse of the characters’ lifestyles while keeping the focus squarely on the high-intensity dialogue.

After a two-year break, the new escapades of the über-rich, ultra-entitled but brilliantly funny bellends at Waystar Royco make for even more extraordinarily entertaining and incisive TV drama than ever.

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

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.

The writing is so creatively foul that it fills the gap left by its sibling in crudeness, Veep. ... Succession is skilled at steadily and surely raising its characters up to multidimensional horrors. ... Its boldest move is to refuse to give these monsters any sort of comeuppance, but that unrelenting bleakness works in its favour and makes it all the more convincing.

[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.

Succession keeps moving forward in ways both surprising and hilarious, and Season 2 solidifies the series as one of the best shows in HBO history.

The thing to embrace and appreciate with Succession in this second season is just how superbly and seemingly effortlessly structured it is with its grandiose plotting; other than making us care about the Roys, that's the next-level miracle. The Emmys did recognize Succession but not nearly enough, by the way. This series is doing something special and the rich rewards will be coming.

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.

The best TV show of the post-modern era. Absolutely goated. You had to be there.

I can see why Succession is so highly regarded, but it simply doesn’t work for me. The handheld, constantly zooming camerawork feels distracting rather than immersive—almost like watching a high-budget vlog. Instead of drawing me in, it pushes me out of the experience. Narratively, I find the show surprisingly thin. The story seems to circle rather than progress, with conflicts that rarely lead to meaningful development. That leaves it feeling aimless rather than subtle.What ultimately loses me, though, are the characters. They come across as repetitive and oddly flat, lacking the depth I would expect from a drama of this calibre. At times, it feels closer to reality TV than to a layered, character-driven series. In short, while I understand the acclaim, I find Succession visually off-putting, narratively underwhelming, and emotionally unengaging

Succession is not one of the best TV shows ever made. I went into it hoping it would live up to the hype, what I got instead was four seasons of SNL-style writing, over-the-top mockumentary tropes reminiscent of The Office, and maybe one or two episodes per season with genuinely great acting. None of the characters are likable. The writing feels over-polished and unnatural, like each character has a script in hand rather than saying what they truly think and feel. The music and cinematography are forgettable, and the rewatchability is low. I have zero motivation to revisit any scene or episode. As a longtime HBO fan, I was also expecting more creative freedom. This feels like something that could air on network television. Compare it to other HBO dramas and it comes across as an over-the-top, sanitized version of what the network is capable of probably because it launched around the time the Me Too movement started, prioritizing playing it safe over taking real artistic risks. Bottom line: Only watch this show if you're into that sort of thing and want something above average. Don't expect to be blown away.

One of the best TV series you can watch! Best music choice, each unique for every scene. Great example of where greed for power will make you blind of what you should be.

Exelente en casi todo pero cuando terminas la serie y lo piensas tienes las sesacion de que alargaron un poco la serie

Very good but does get very repetitive and the final season is really drawn out. S1 starts boring but gets great, S2 is excellent, S3 is a bit more of the same starts to get repetitive, S4 is a mixed bag, sometimes great, sometimes very boring, stupid and thinks a lot of itself. Overall definitely worth watching and one of the better TV shows over the last few years.

Almost finished with the first season. The show is ok.. Kind of like Always Sunny for sick ****s who want to swap that cast for sociopath wealth addicts. One major sin the series commits that takes my enjoyment WAY down is the score & soundtrack. Get ready to be extremely tired of the main theme. It is playing over 75% of the show. They play it over and over and over with little variation... During every moment despite the context. Make it MEAN something. It quickly became filler.

Das diese serie better call Saul einen Emmy nahm ist respektlos da BCS die einzigste Serie ist welche ich von der Bewertung gleich setzen würde mit breaking Bad

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.

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 perfectly understand that this series tries to push the trope of "they do the same things over, and over and learn nothing", but 4 seasons of this?It's a good series, just should have ended faster - or give something in return.

The first season really is quite boring and honestly a bit of a letdown. However, once the plot gets going around the 10th episode, it really is a wild ride that has to be seen through to the end. Full of plot twists, betrayals and much more, this turned out to be one of my favorite shows this year.

Kendall :( Tom :)

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.

Good acting, writing, production values, etc. But ultimately it left me empty and I wouldn't recommend it to others since the characters arent likeable. Maybe that was the point.

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

This is a great show that highlights the games the elite play to control the world.

I am so sad this show is almost over! Every season has gotten better, and this final season has been the best yet. It's one of the best shows ever on tv!

I am so bummed this show is almost over, but also cannot wait for the last few episodes! As soon as it's over, I'm going to go back and watch the show all over again from the start. That's how good it is!!

It's one of the best show ever, closing on Breaking Bad and The Wire. Definitely NOT 'another show about billionaires'. Sure, it shows to some extent how rich are detached from reality, but above all this series is about dysfunctional family, lack of love and desperate craving for it. It's universal, just packed up in billionaire attire, luxury settings, cars etc. The writing and characters are brilliant. Hard to watch. I don't know if there is a single character who is not 'the worst human', you can pity them in one scene and hate in the next one. Writers and actors did here something extraordinary. Even the huge plot twist almost few episodes into the season, seems spot on. Well played show runners! Be bold and fresh, that's the recipe for the great show.