The new season of Succession started Sunday. I really like this show. Although the premiere was mostly scene setting for the season to come and could have also been called Everybody Hates Kendall I like the show because it focuses on power. It started as a show that looked like it was going to be about siblings fighting over their dad's company, but even though it looked like the dad (Logan) was not long for the world (he has a stroke in the show's first episode) he came back. We do not really know how much he has left on his fastball but he does know how to play people off one another and push other people around.
The show has few people to root for - most of the characters are both obscenely wealthy and incredibly venal - the kind of people who bid on Napoleon's desiccated penis or offer a landscaper's kid a million dollars if he hits a home run, then mercilessly ridicules him when he fails. But even though the characters are universally awful, there is something interesting about the palace intrigue of it all. The lies, the scheming, all of that is escapist, it allows us to fantasize what it might be like to tell people to fuck off and have them not be able to do anything about it. To throw out thousands of dollars of steak and lobster or tell a contractor you're going to give him one-third of what he's owed and dare him to sue you.
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