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  SUCCESSION SERIES REVIEW AFTER FOUR SEASONS Succession mimics House of Dragon but in a sharper, funnier, modern court filled with loyalties refracted in the light of paranoia. Filled with a plethora of advisers, the charm reveals ruthlessness, betrayal, and greed fuelled by self-preservation. Yet children fight amongst themselves to impress an old king drunk with power and delirious with illness. Succession splinters the aspiration of a billions-level empire of Waystar Royco into small pieces of egocentric mania, sibling rivalry, and vice grip of a patriarch who is too staunch to let go. Logan Roy emerges as the central figure in the lives of his family and the consciousness of his empire. He choreographs outcomes before his adversaries can make plans. Ultimately, over the four seasons, the patriarch asserts himself as a ruthless, cold-hearted, and powerful figure whose silhouette haunts his children, bent backwards to prove themselves worthy. Succession is another of HBO's mas...

 PETTY CASH The glory of the heavens whispers To the pockets that blister My hands every time I try To pick my hopes out of them The republic sends wraiths That fill my dreams with pain Telling stories of my nightmares To the miseducation of a capitalist Curriculum Epitaphs written in delirium Project themselves into the hearts of the living Petty cash Adulthood is out of the neighbourhood Petty cash Heirloom is out with the auctioneers Petty cash is pretty cash