There are a few TV series that go beyond the (American) cliches that you can find on television, that you watch not to be entertained when you want to stop thinking, but for their art, their actors, their cinematographic majesty, their stories. And here, only to name a few, I think of Fargo, Mad Men, House of Cards, Boardwalk Empire, Mindhunter, The Young Pope/The New Pope. And of course, Succession.
Winner of 9 Emmys (so far), Succession did
not catch me from its first episode: too long, with a theme that seemed not to
be original, with a vocabulary related to the business field, definitely not
the type of series that you want after a long day, where you just want to
unplug your brain. But after 2-3 episodes, it became the only series that I had
watched for a while: for its actors, its music, its humour mixed with the
torment, the drama, and all the words unsaid, for its twists and finale
episodes of each series.
I don’t think
there is one single good character in this series, all of them are fucked up, mere
images of evilness. And somehow, during all the episodes, you get to pity them,
to understand them, to see glimpses of their humanity, and of why they become
who they are today. How much parents influence us, how much of who they are
become impregnated into our subconscious, why power and money become so
important for some, more than your own family, so that at the end of the day, “family” becomes just a simple utterance, void of all its meaning.
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