Meet the Roy Family: A Gallery of Disappointments
The Roy family is a mess of entitled, self-absorbed, and occasionally interesting characters. Each one more likely to sell their own mother out than actually do something good for the world.
From the charming but ultimately useless Tom, to the calculating and emotionally unavailable Logan, to the entitled and vapid Shiv, to the sociopathic and manipulative Roman, to the... well, actually, there's not much good to say about any of them. But hey, that's what makes for great drama, right?
Themes: Family, Money, and the Dangers of Inheritance
Succession is more than just a show about rich people being terrible. No, no, it's about how that behavior gets passed down through generations, and what happens when those entitled brats grow up. Spoiler alert: it's a lot of yelling, a lot of scheming, and a few actual deaths.