'Anyone who has ever recommended Succession to a friend will know that it sounds like – and on paper, should be – the world’s most unwatchable TV show. 'Everyone in it is awful and they all do awful things to each other. But you must watch right away.'
ability to push further into the darkness, though, is most notable in the script.In a society where – often rightfully – we’re increasingly careful about what we can and can’t say, the speedy and spiky dialogue stomps through egg shells. The most recent episode – series four, episode nine – is a prime example of how often it says the unsayable. “If I see you breastfeeding, I am going to have to jerk off,” Roman tells his sister.
What other show dealing with serious issues like stock prices and billion-dollar business deals would also have someone declaring that spinach is “the king of edible leaves” ? Where else would you have such bafflingly nonsensical sentences such as, “If it is to be said, so it be, so it is” ? Can anyone do better on-the-nose lines than: “The Logan Roy School of Journalism.
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