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    The mystery of TV’s vanishing middle class

    Oct 15, 2021 5 minutes
    By Judy Berman
    ILLUSTRATION BY BEN GILES FOR TIME

    SUCCESSION IS BACK, AND WITH IT THE COMPLICATED pleasures of watching an obscenely rich, morally odious family scream and scheme and feud its way through some of the most exclusive spaces on earth. While 2019’s Season 2 finale found the show’s fractious, Murdoch-like Roys managing a crisis in their cruise division while drifting around the Mediterranean in a yacht the size of a city block, the Season 3 premiere, airing Oct. 17 on HBO, hinges on private planes.

    Only a tiny fraction of fans will ever experience such luxury, which is part of why we watch. But at a time when massive wealth often reeks of corruption, it’s easier to vicariously enjoy TV characters’ lush lifestyles when those characters are incapable of

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