Succession: We Are Not Serious People - Genre Reveal Party!

To kick off our first season on the theme of "Family Matters," we're talking about HBO's Succession: a show about daddy that's got a lot of mommy issues.

While clearly positioned among HBO's prestige dramas (and currently Emmy campaigning as such), many critics and fans have made the case that Succession is quite clearly a comedy.

So how do we read Succession? And what is it trying to say about the family, capitalism, and genre?

Spoilers: dead daddy, the Shiv of it all, #TeamGerri, Nicholaus Braun seems sketchy, and no more power point presentations from Adam McKay!

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Cover art by Tuli Lane-McKinley