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How ‘Succession’ feeds the hidden fantasies of its well-to-do viewers

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Succession has returned for its fourth and final season, giving the show’s fans one last opportunity to watch the kids of the wealthy Roy family desperately try to gain the approval of their media mogul father by any means necessary.

I’ve watched every episode. But at one point, I started to wonder: Where’s the appeal in watching obnoxious, pampered, backstabbing siblings?

Inspired by the family of Fox Corp chairperson Rupert Murdoch, with themes and a premise pulled from Shakespeare’s King Lear, Succession tells the story of an ageing patriarch who must decide which of his four children will replace him at the top.

It’s easy to assume that much

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