James Delingpole James Delingpole

Succession works because the writers don’t care about the boring business storylines

What matters are the bizarre set pieces, the one-liners and, above all, any scene involving either Tom or Greg

Monsters inc: Sarah Snook (Shiv), Kieran Culkin (Roman) and Jeremy Strong (Kendall). © 2023 HBO. All Rights Reserved 
issue 01 April 2023

I have a theory that many great artists’ strength is a product of their weakness. The flaw of the relentlessly frivolous creator of Succession Jesse Armstrong, for example, is that he is very easily bored by grown-up subjects such as big business, finance, corporate structure, legal affairs or anything involving depth and seriousness.

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