Opinion by Michele L. Norris: “Succession” was like candy you cannot put down, a mirror on what ails America.
hasn’t sparked watch parties, but it should. The show is excellent exactly because the warning to us is so clear.
“Succession,” on the other hand, is like candy you can’t put down even though you know it will ruin your teeth. It’s built, at least superficially, on the glee of watching wealthy people suffer in their gilded cages. We see how rich one-percenters live, and then we give grace for simpler lives that are less sumptuous but also less complicated by the corrupting forces of money, power, greed and relationships that rely on transactional vectors that shift with the stock market.
When Tom Wambsgans knocks off all rivals to emerge as the CEO of the fictional Waystar Royco empire, we know a lightweight has walked off with the title. A small man with no principles or talent elbowed aside his estranged and pregnant wife, Shiv, to get the big chair. Social media is afire with interpretations of that final moment when Shiv seemingly accepts defeat and manages to touch her husband’s outstretched hand.
“Succession” can easily be viewed as a collective avatar for the poisonous pack of leaders who have set Western democracy toward the ditch — and all those who helped make that happen. But I think the show’s bigger target extends far beyond the one-percenters. The largely British cadre of “Succession”
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