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So out it goes.
The log line ofSuccessioncould be King LearmeetsArrested Development.
And reader, he isntnor is any character who shares his DNA or cashes his paychecks.
Until then, to use his favorite phrase, everybody who wants to take his throne can fuck off.
And yet the jockeying for power continues in earnest.
(No one dies, but one crewmember loses an arm; the Roys consider this a win.)
But the acid-bath viciousness ofSuccessionprevents the usual mechanism of identification from snapping into place.
You watch the Roys with something akin to scientific fascination.
Were learning about how the monsters live and reproduce and dominate us, generation after generation.
Theyre up in the hunting towers, and were the boars.
