Your favorite abhorrent rich family is back! As the Roy family fights over control of their media conglomerate and its direction, we get to sit back and enjoy Shiv and Tom’s doomed marriage, Roman’s antics, Kendall’s pathetic Sisyphean efforts to become his own man, and Cousin Greg’s attempts to get out of his youth hostel. So down some ortolan and check out The Ringer’s coverage of Succession as it heads into its second season.
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August 11, 2019
Raccoon in the Chimney: Breaking Down the Season 2 Premiere of ‘Succession’
As we rejoin the Roys, Kendall is a shell of a man, Shiv is on the come-up, and Logan smells a rodent
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August 11, 2019
‘Number One Boys’: Watch Episode 1 of Our ‘Succession’ Aftershow
Chris Ryan and Jason Concepcion recap the season debut and provide proprietary analysis of Shiv’s odds of success
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August 9, 2019
The Most Anticipated Story Lines of ‘Succession’ Season 2
Kendall Roy is the number one boy, but is he the number one plot heading into the second installment of HBO’s drama about the über-rich?
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August 9, 2019
Which ‘Succession’ Character Are You?
If you’re thinking about hosting a podcast about Napoleonic history, you already know who you are
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August 8, 2019
The No. 1 ‘Succession’ Dictionary: Your Guide to Speaking Like an Ortolan Eater
Words may be "complicated air flow," but ahead of the Season 2 premiere of the Roy family drama, join our closed-loop system and familiarize yourself with these tasty morsels from groovy hubs
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August 7, 2019
Amoral Business As Usual: ‘Succession’ Returns in All Its Dysfunctional Glory
With Logan Roy fully operative, Season 2 of HBO’s anti-wealth drama picks up right where it left off and dives even deeper into the dark pit of its central family
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October 16, 2018
The NBA As Explained by ‘Succession’
Standout quotes that help preview notable NBA characters and teams for the 2018 season
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August 7, 2018
How ‘Succession’ Became the Best Show on Television
The HBO series is a true summer phenomenon—though it took a little while for everyone to catch on
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August 6, 2018
The ‘Succession’ Season Finale Exit Survey
Fire up the grill for some ortolan and break out the ketamine: We’re talking about the Roy family standoff—and the cringiest wedding ever—that capped off the first season of HBO’s 1-percenter drama
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August 6, 2018
Sending Off ‘Succession’ With Showrunner Jesse Armstrong
Speaking with the creator of one of the year’s best shows
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August 6, 2018
What Can We Learn From the Service Workers of ‘Succession’?
If how someone treats a waiter is indicative of their personality, then the Roy siblings are some of the worst people on earth
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August 5, 2018
The Deliberate Discomfort of Season 1 of ‘Succession’
The creative forces behind HBO’s drama about the damaged Roy clan and its powerful family conglomerate discuss the beauty, hilarity, and tragedy of the unsparing freshman season and finale
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August 3, 2018
The ‘Succession’ Awards
With Season 1 coming to a close, it’s time to honor the best, worst, and most of HBO’s corporate family drama
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July 30, 2018
The Most Important Questions Heading Into the ‘Succession’ Finale
Are we really launching a rocket? Is Kendall ever going to succeed (and earn the approval of his father)? Can we get Cousin Greg a better nickname than "Greg the Egg"?
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July 29, 2018
‘Succession,’ S1E9: “Pre-Nuptial”
Breaking down everything from the first season’s penultimate episode
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July 27, 2018
The ‘Succession’ Power Rankings
With two episodes to go, here’s where each character stands in the quest for utter wealth and power
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July 26, 2018
Greed Is Not Good: The Anti-Capitalist Message of ‘Succession’
Whenever the money-hungry are depicted in film or TV, it just makes the audience hungry. Not so with the HBO dramedy, which captures the emptiness of chasing dollar signs.
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June 25, 2018
Cousin Greg—Sweet Cousin Greg—Is the Only Non-sociopath in HBO’s ‘Succession’
And now he may have been poisoned
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June 18, 2018
‘Succession’ Is Finally in on the Joke
Three episodes in, the show has figured out how to display the absurdity of its characters
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June 3, 2018
Forget ‘Roseanne’—Trump’s America Is in ‘Succession’
Like ‘Arrested Development,’ HBO’s new drama tells the saga of a rich and powerful man’s terrible offspring. But this one is no laughing matter.
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June 1, 2018
The Many Murdochs Behind ‘Succession’
HBO’s new drama about an aging media tycoon and his scheming family might seem like a Rupert Murdoch case study. But the Murdochs aren’t the industry’s only controlling clan fueled by petty dramatics—or the showrunner’s only muse.