Succession

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Season 1
  • Network: HBO
  • Series Premiere Date: Jun 3, 2018
Season #: 4, 3, 2, 1
Metascore
70

Generally favorable reviews - based on 29 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 29
  3. Negative: 1 out of 29
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Critic Reviews

  1. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Kelly Lawler
    May 31, 2018
    37
    Dull, dreary and dubiously written, Succession isn't much of a success. ... It's just a group of vacuous rich people shouting at each other, probably not making much of a sound.

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#76 Best TV Season of 2018
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User Score
8.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 111 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 89 out of 111
  2. Mixed: 16 out of 111
  3. Negative: 6 out of 111
  1. Eman0221
    Jul 3, 2018
    6
    This show was marketed and positioned as HBO's version of "Billions." Instead, its the Corporate America version of "Death of Stalin, In theThis show was marketed and positioned as HBO's version of "Billions." Instead, its the Corporate America version of "Death of Stalin, In the Loop/Thick of it, and Veep, but its just not as funny, sharp, and witty. Unlike those shows, the unlikeable characters in this one just aren't engaging enough. Just tiresome and boring. We get it, they're terrible, spoiled, entitled people. So what? What is the hook here? Why should we care? Should we laugh? Hate them? Feel pity? The show doesn't seem to give a clear purpose other than hate and maybe laugh. That gets old fast.

    Will continue watching and holding out hope that it'll get better towards the end of the season, but I'm not holding my breath.    … Full Review »
  2. OlivierPiel
    Jun 5, 2018
    5
    Very underwhelming. Each character is more clichéd than the next: The Murdoch old-lion figure, who still has all his cunning despite hisVery underwhelming. Each character is more clichéd than the next: The Murdoch old-lion figure, who still has all his cunning despite his decrepit health, the anointed heir who has daddy issues, the immature bouffon of a little brother who prefers to laugh at everyone than accept taking responsibilities for his incompentence, the older brother who retreated to a ranch to avoid the rat race, the daughter that went into politics to prove she can do it alone, the consigliere who thinks he is part of the family...
    Probably as realistic as an episode of Dallas or Dynasty in the 80's.
    HBO, this is summer, but come on....    … Full Review »
  3. break2bits
    Aug 5, 2018
    4
    Not a great show. It's not funny enough to be a good black comedy and lacks the emotional core that would make it a worthwhile drama. TheNot a great show. It's not funny enough to be a good black comedy and lacks the emotional core that would make it a worthwhile drama. The characters are basically all stereotypes. Tom and Shiv are the only characters nuanced enough to be believable. For all the time spent characterizing the ultra-wealthy the show doesn't actually have anything of any substance to say about them or their world. Instead the show embraces a kind of safe cynicism and tears down each of the overly simplistic "types" — rich and poor, liberal and conservative — that stand in as characters. It gets 4 points for having a relatively engaging narrative, but fails to cohere into anything more than an appeal to the audience's desire to experience vicarious luxury.

    And they waaaay overuse the show's dumb theme song — for some reason it shows up multiple times in every episode in addition to the opening titles. I can't imagine what these scripts look like: "Something dramatic happens. Cue piano music with a hip-hop beat so our idiot viewers know something dramatic happened."    … Full Review »
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