What is Succession about?
Follow the lives of the Roy family as they contemplate their future once their aging father begins to step back from the media and entertainment conglomerate they control.
A powerful family's darkly-comic squabbles over a media empire reveal a bleak, gritty world.
Satirical, with dry wit. A full-attention watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it is devastating.
88
Must Watch
CouchRot Score, from 7 cinephile ratings
Streaming on Max.
Succession parents guide
Nothing past what a TV-MA promises: moderate sex and nudity, and some violence.
- Scare
- Not scary
- Jump scares
- None noted
- Gore
- No gore
- Violence
- Some violence
- Some fighting or peril.
- Sex and nudity
- Moderate
- Moderate means a sex scene or nudity on screen, even brief, or sexual violence that is described or implied but never shown.
- Language
- Strong
- Frequent strong profanity or slurs.
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ConfidenceForming
7 ratings so far, still taking shape.
ConsensusNear Unanimous
DividedNear unanimous
How the 7 ratings land
Cast and crew
Created byJesse Armstrong
StarringJeremy Strong, Kieran Culkin, Sarah Snook, Brian Cox, Matthew Macfadyen, Alan Ruck
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