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A razor-sharp, viciously funny prestige drama about power, family, and emotional bankruptcy. It’s one of the defining TV series of the 2020s: brilliantly written, endlessly quotable, and escalating into a near-perfect final stretch.
99% (354,593)
Where to watch: Max
2018 · ★ 99% (354.6K)
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Starring: Jeremy Strong, Kieran Culkin, Sarah Snook
Follow the lives of the Roy family as they contemplate their future once their aging father begins to step back from the media and entertainment conglomerate they control.
Gary Sanchez Productions, Hyperobject Industries, Project Zeus, HBO, Hot Seat Productions
Jeremy Strong, Kieran Culkin, Sarah Snook, Brian Cox, Matthew Macfadyen, Alan Ruck, J. Smith-Cameron, Nicholas Braun, Dagmara Dominczyk, Peter Friedman, Justine Lupe, David Rasche, Fisher Stevens
Max
A razor-sharp, viciously funny prestige drama about power, family, and emotional bankruptcy. It’s one of the defining TV series of the 2020s: brilliantly written, endlessly quotable, and escalating into a near-perfect final stretch.
Succession is a masterclass in tonal control: savage comedy, psychological drama, and boardroom thriller all fused into one of the sharpest series ever made. Jesse Armstrong’s writing turns every conversation into a power play, and the cast makes each insult, pause, and humiliation land like a body blow.
What makes it endure is that it never softens its central idea: the Roys are trapped by wealth, status, and the need to dominate one another. The show is funny because it is cruel, and devastating because it understands how childish and wounded these people are beneath the armor.
The first season is strong, the second and third are exceptional, and the fourth delivers a remarkably satisfying conclusion. If you like your TV brilliant, brutal, and rewatchable, this is essential viewing.
A glossy, high-stakes power drama with sharp banter, elite ego battles, and a similarly addictive mix of strategy and humiliation.
Another elite-status satire that weaponizes discomfort, social observation, and cutting dialogue to expose the rot beneath wealth.
A prestige character study about ambition, identity, and power, with immaculate writing and a similarly controlled, adult tone.
A tense, character-driven drama where family bonds and professional obligations constantly collide under pressure.
The foundational prestige antihero series, blending dark humor, family dysfunction, and psychological depth at the highest level.
Fast, ruthless, and jargon-heavy, it captures the same appetite for status games, ambition, and emotional damage in a modern corporate setting.
A slow-burn character drama with exquisite plotting, moral compromise, and some of the best television writing of its era.
If the appeal is savage dialogue and political cruelty, this is the closest pure comedy cousin in terms of verbal velocity and contempt.
Intense, tightly wound, and driven by dysfunctional family dynamics and workplace pressure, with a similarly propulsive energy.
A lavish power saga about dynasties, corruption, and ambition, with strong ensemble dynamics and a premium-cable feel.
A family business drama centered on succession, ego, and betrayal, though with a more melodramatic and soapy approach.
A cold-blooded political power fantasy with scheming, manipulation, and a relentless focus on dominance.
family dysfunction, corporate power, succession and inheritance, wealth and privilege, emotional manipulation, media empire, sibling rivalry, toxic relationships
prestige drama, dark comedy, satire, corporate intrigue, family saga, billionaire class, power struggle, bingeable, sharp dialogue, modern era