Succession was almost instantly recognized as one of the greatest drama shows of all time. HBO’s groundbreaking satire about the interior politics of a media empire family and its legacy wrapped its fantastic four-season run earlier this year with the excellent finale, “With Open Eyes.” Succession follows the legendary business tycoon Logan Roy (Brian Cox) […]
Continue readingBrian Cox is joining the James Bond franchise, in one way or another.The “Succession” Emmy winner hosts Bond-inspired reality competition series “007: Road to a Million” for Prime Video.Nine contestants embark on a global adventure to participate in a series of challenges for a shot at winning win £1 million — or $1.3 million — […]
Continue readingHas television ever seen performances quite like those in “Succession?” The show’s cast delivered some of the most devastating scenes of all time season after season, all leading up to an absolutely gut-wrenching final few episodes. A lot of credit is due to the all-star actors, which has earned them multiple Emmys and several more […]
Continue readingLeo Tolstoy once said that all happy families are alike, but all unhappy families are unhappy in their own ways. Thus, it’s no surprise that happy families are so few. For a family to be happy, every little component needs to work together in harmony, but there are an infinite number of variables that could […]
Continue readingWhat if Edgar Allan Poe had penned “Succession“? The result might be “The Fall of the House of Usher,” the latest streaming terror from Mike Flanagan (“Midnight Mass“). Flanagan, once again working with his usual stable of players, takes a “shut up and play the hits” approach to Poe here, dipping into the legendary author’s […]
Continue readingWith “Succession” over, HBO has an opening for its next premier drama. There are couple of candidates for the slot already, like “The Last Of Us” and “The White Lotus.” But if “Succession” creator Jesse Armstrong had cut the show’s final season in two, as he considered doing at one point, HBO wouldn’t have a […]
Continue reading“Succession” wasn’t going to leave anything on the table before closing out the series.Showrunner and creator Jesse Armstrong said in upcoming book “‘Succession’: Season Four: The Complete Scripts” (as excerpted by Vulture) that he was determined to do a “full-fat” final season instead of splitting up Season 4 into parts, like fellow HBO series such […]
Continue readingHBO didn’t have to wait for too long after the series finale of Succession to get another great drama series executive produced by Adam McKay. With a similar rapid-fire sense of humor and unique method of chronicling historical events as McKay’s films The Big Short and Vice, Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty […]
Continue readingThe final season of Succession placed the Roy family in the position they never wanted to be in, but one they were destined for from the pilot — needing to find an immediate successor to Logan Roy (Brian Cox) as the Chief Executive Officer of Waystar Royco. While the fourth and final season did a […]
Continue reading“What if ‘Succession‘ but Edgar Allan Poe?” is a pretty damn fine pitch for a horror series if you ask me, especially when it’s coming from Mike Flanagan. The modern horror maestro has been a practical machine for Netflix these last several years, churning out hit after hit like “Gerald’s Game,” “The Haunting of Hill […]
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