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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 masterpiece dramas spiced with sincerity of twists and turns. The masterly of this series is enough to entice drama enthusiasts and those looking for a binge-worthy series that carves a father figure in the ultimate extreme of its elements.

Succession begins with the old Logan seeming tired of a
eons of business deals, a successful rags-to-riches journey, and in serious need of a successor. Unpredictable like Nairobian nights, the kids who seem like the most probable successors are a psychological mess who dance clumsily before the most unforgiving adjudicator. This way, Succession curses its name with a satirical and ironical essence that metes cruelty in its originality of humour and brutality that is too tasty to ignore. The rawness of the twists begins instantly with the first episodes. As the first season ages, the billions become an afterthought in the minds of siblings who trample all over their lives with boots of bruised egos that are too frail to match the figure of Logan Roy.

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The media empire built by Logan is a powerful machine reaching the great depths of bottomless pits of American political debauchery and decadence. The empire, having amassed great influence over the American dream, manipulates to survive and reduces long roads to short ones. However, the empire is on tilts and stands on the knife's edge, ripe enough to fall like an apple, ready for the taking. As the vultures gather, the dim-witted Connor launches a frail political escapade that his young girlfriend spices, Willa. Shiv asserts herself as a political adviser and is uninterested in being in her father's realm.

Additionally, she outshines Tom, her irritating and awful fiancé. However, Kendall and Roman seem self-assured as potent heirs who impress their father with their unmatched stupidity. Their efforts are like deflated balloons in the course of a birthday party.

The first season succeeds at depicting extreme wealth as a malady that curses older men with fear and their children with eccentricity of stupidity.

The second season hurries to bring the pieces together after the tragic end of the first season. Kendall, who installed an uprising against his father, was shattered by the accident that took him into the ironclad embrace of his father. Therefore, the second season begins as the aftermath of Logan's victory over his adversaries. However, Shiv strives to obliterate her right-wing father by supporting a left-wing candidate who seems to be the ebb of Logan's wave. The irony of the second season is the generosity of decadence and conspiracy. The face of the king lights in the plights of his subjects since it presents the devil as the saviour.

In the third season, the evolution of Succession matures and presents a refined form of rising stakes, frail bravery, and calculated unity that maintains the pettiness of its fun. The squabbling family of Logan Roy, which is still reeling from the grenade Kendall set off at the end of the second season through a tragic press conference, becomes a nasty concoction for the fans. The sunset stares invitingly at the dwindling but potent figure of Logan as Kendall seeks to prove himself with another test. In the tempests of VIP events characterizing episodes of the third season, Kendall, Shiv, and Roman reunite in a fateful attempt after learning about the searing betrayal of their father that breaks familial tenets.

I will not describe the last and fourth season of the iconic series. However, the tirade concludes with the transcendence of winners and the awaiting abyss of losers. In its fashion, Succession leaves a satisfactory fill with its unending cruelty, jabs, and dreams of billions that turn into nightmares at the epiphany of self-preservation.