Everybody Plays the Fool
o one would call it “the show we need right now,” but HBO’s —which centres on Murdochian media mogul Logan Roy (Brian Cox) and his fuck-up progeny—pushes past wealth-porn TV and into the realm of true drama. Creator Jesse Armstrong previously collaborated with Armando Iannucci on the BBC series and its feature-film sequel (2009), a satire of British politics that suggested that the most successful players in that arena were not cunning sharks but craven and weak individuals, only some of whom were loud enough bullies to disguise it. In , Cox’s Logan discovers that his son and heir apparent, Kendall (Jeremy Strong), is one such beta male, unprepared for
