A show about fake ultrarich people played by less rich people watched by poor people. A show that has pretensions about flagellating the rich while still somehow revelling in their debauchery and parasitism, a sort of recursive self-awareness that is supposed to somehow absolve the characters (and the irl rich?). Somehow it is both the sale of anti capitalism back to the anti capitalists whilst also scratching a Keeping Up With the Kardashians itch for watching the inter-familial spats of our feudal overlords.
A contemporary Game of Thrones where everyone is bad and there is no good and it’s just a TV show so it doesn’t matter, which handily conceals the fact that our everyday reality is literally this show, and that the stakes in real life are actually weighty and have moral and material value and can easily be viewed as right and wrong.
Along with a healthy dose of “their daddy was mean to them so it’s not their fault they’re all disgusting bourgeois pigs”.
What the fuck. We desperately need prolekult. I’m so sick of this two faced culture that sells our own hatred back to us and pokes the reward centres in our brain - “hey you just watched a pithy comment that could KIND SORTA be construed as anti capitalist on a million dollar show on a billion dollar network, you’ve done your leftism for the day!”
What stage of capitalism is it when everyone is so widely aware capitalism sucks that the most successful business model is pretending you agree that capitalism sucks?
AAAAAA
I think it’s pretty funny, and I don’t think it’s meant to be anything really intended as anti capitalist. Poking fun at the rich is a very old joke.
It’s written well with good performances ¯_(ツ)_/¯
My biggest problem with the show is that it has become too reliant on Brian Cox. Without him it would fall apart, but the whole premise of the show is he’s dying. At the end of season 3 he seems to be as strong and mentally fit as ever and rarely does he display any symptoms of a “dying” man with dementia.
Wait isn’t succession about how incompetent and fucked up the characters are. Like they’re not even good at doing the one thing they should be good at
Yeah, same with It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. There is a thin veneer of a moral standpoint, the characters recieve ocasional comeuppance for their naked greed and capitalist ambition as small business owners, but ultimately the puppet-master production company behind all the decisions is obviously also trying to sell us on the glory of being an all-day alcoholic who goofs off with your friends and gets into bad-natured hijinks. The failure of both shows to be anticapitalist propaganda is why you can immediately disregard any leftwing ‘activist’ who claims to enjoy either
why you can immediately disregard any leftwing ‘activist’ who claims to enjoy either
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it’s a show about one insane rich guy funding his own schemes and those of a group of absolute scumbags. everyone hates them and they literally never succeed because they act like crabs in a barrel. pretty much every episode has them receiving comeuppance because the next episode shows them back in the bar doing whatever bullshit they fill their lives with
