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Season 1 – Succession

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Jun 2018

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Although he has no plans to step aside as the head of Waystar Royco, the international media conglomerate controlled by his family, aging patriarch Logan Roy is contemplating what the future holds. He has lingered in the limelight longer than even he thought he would, and now family members want to run the company as they see fit. Despite a best-laid succession plan, tempers flare over Logan's intentions. Kendall Roy, Logan's eldest son from his second marriage and a division president at the firm, is the heir apparent. As Kendall attempts to solidify his eventual takeover, he and the three other Roy children face a difficult choice as company control and family loyalties collide.

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Critics Consensus

Peppering its pathos with acid wit, Succession is a divine comedy of absolute power and dysfunction -- brought to vivid life by a ferocious ensemble.

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Eric Deggans

NPR

11/25/2019

Stories of dysfunctional wealth have often been cloaked in soapy storylines and melodrama. These recent series are more serious and substantive.

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Craig Mathieson

The Age (Australia)

10/22/2019

4/5

These privileged adults remain in part children, forever in their father's shadow and trying to make sense of their lives. Succession is bitterly funny and juicy entertainment, but with mercurial assurance it slowly reveals itself as a tragedy.

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Karl Quinn

The Age (Australia)

01/11/2019

Oh, it's delicious, this dark soap opera-cum-socio-political satire. Funny, too, and occasionally shocking in its portrayal of the cruelty - both casual and calculated - of the unfathomably rich.

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Francesca Faccani

Loud and Clear Reviews

09/21/2024

Succession succeeds as a show in its being unapologetically real while taking the form of a niche media tragedy.

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Jared Mobarak

Hey, Have You Seen ...?

04/07/2023

7/10

I had a blast watching and look forward to continuing in the hopes Armstrong and company won’t just keep laughing at us while we laugh at the nightmarish capitalist monsters he’s created.

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Victor Pineyro

Seventh Art Studio

04/08/2022

8/10

We have to admit season 1 is visually poor. Succession is a game of power and consequences of being part of the poisonous 1, but its comedy, awkwardness and great writing make it addictive. Full review in Spanish

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James W

@Jimpy Jan 17

Got to Episode 4 and have turned it off and restarted about 5 times in the space of a week. The characters are so unlikeable and terrible, and that would be fine if anything happened in the show but nothing happens! The story is dull, nothing happens and you just keep seeing the same awful people do awful things for no reason. With the amount of shows of TV these days, save yourself some time and give this one a miss

Magnus A

Dec 29

Brilliant pastiche of mega rich media people - the parallel to Rupert Murdoch and his empire is just coincidental? Good script, filming is fine. The actors play their awful characters well, in fact somewhere between well and brilliantly. Direction is consistent and sharp. (In a vote for the most grating character in Series One I'd nominate Tom played by Matthew Macfadyen - Tom is truly odious, obsequious, bullying, cringe!)

MBI M

@MNZGamerX Dec 25

Season 1 was an excellent introduction into the extremely wealthy yet dysfunctional and conspiratorial Logan Roy dynasty with family members constantly at each others throats but the grown up children sharing a common bond of having experienced a closeted, repressive and emotionally bereft childhood that ultimately has a corrupting influence on all of them but of varying degrees as wealth warps their perspective of the world and in their relations with others that has the effect of wrecking lives. The first season revolves mostly around the second son Kendall and his father but the other siblings have their fair share of trouble as they try to navigate their relationship with their overbearing and manipulative father. Manipulation is, however, a common characteristic shared by all of the siblings.

z H.

@Zorro925 Nov 12

The first episode is challenging and doesn’t request a return visit. However, intrigue is ignited shortly thereafter and keeps burning through the series.

Sallie S

@Opinionator Oct 13

Tedious to the point of being unendurable. I bailed about ten minutes into the second episode. I know that the writers thought that they were being oh-so witty. Not. I just wanted all of the characters off the planet. I felt sorry for the actors. Of course, none of them were very good anyway.

David C

Sep 26

Easily in the top five TV shows written, executed and conceived. Hillerious, intelligent, exceptionally well acted and shot, it's felt by every sucker in it. The golden age of TV turned out its lights in the most haunting way possible when those last credits rolled.

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Jesse Armstrong

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Hiam Abbass

Marcia Roy

Nicholas Braun

Greg

Brian Cox

Logan Roy

Kieran Culkin

Roman Roy

Peter Friedman

Frank

Episode 1

Aired Jun 3, 2018

Celebration

Media magnate Logan Roy shocks his family on his 80th birthday by announcing he is staying on indefinitely as CEO of Waystar Royco; Logan's children raise objections over their father's desire to change the way his eventual successor will be chosen.

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Episode 2

Aired Jun 10, 2018

S... Show at the F... Factory

Logan's incapacitation sets off a heated succession debate among his children; Greg is tasked with retrieving important items from the Roy apartment; Kendall makes an impassioned final plea to keep Waystar Royco in the family.

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Episode 3

Aired Jun 17, 2018

Lifeboats

Kendall confronts a major crisis involving a secret bank debt as Waystar's stock plunges to dangerous lows; Kendall and Roman attend their first big meeting in their new roles; Kendall tries to convince Rava to give their marriage a second chance.

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Episode 4

Aired Jun 24, 2018

Sad Sack Wasp Trap

Kendall polishes up his speech for the company's annual foundation gala fundraiser; Shiv tries to minimize damage from a sordid photo that threatens a client's political future; Tom shares a disturbing file with Greg.

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Episode 5

Aired Jul 1, 2018

I Went to Market

After hearing Logan's plan to expand to local TV, Kendall begins to plot a vote of no confidence against his father; Greg drives his ornery grandfather, Ewan, from Canada to New York for a Thanksgiving reunion with Logan.

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Episode 6

Aired Jul 8, 2018

Which Side Are You On?

Logan arrives in Washington to meet the president but worries he has been snubbed following a last-minute cancellation; after successfully thwarting a potential scandal, Tom introduces Greg to fine dining; Shiv explores her options.

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Episode 7

Aired Jul 15, 2018

Austerlitz

In an effort to fix his public image, Logan agrees to a family therapy session at Connor's New Mexico ranch; Shiv is pushed to join the Gil Eavis' team, a potential presidential candidate who goes against everything Shiv's father stands for.

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Episode 8

Aired Jul 22, 2018

Prague

Tom has a bachelor party to remember; Kendall eyes a new business opportunity with a pair of idealistic entrepreneurs; Roman looks to land a deal for local TV stations with his father's longtime nemesis; Shiv and Gil get ambushed during an interview.

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Episode 9

Aired Jul 29, 2018

Pre-Nuptial

The Roys assemble at Eastnor Castle in England to prepare for Shiv and Tom's wedding; Kendall learns from Stewy and Sandy that their plot for a hostile takeover of Waystar has been fast-tracked in order to catch Logan off guard.

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Episode 10

Aired Aug 5, 2018

Nobody Is Ever Missing

News of a hostile takeover breaks; Kendall eyes an escape outlet.

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