From Dallas to Succession, the fortune of family sagas on television

Jealousy, resentment, expectation of an inheritance, desperate need for recognition or love… There are, in the series Successionall the hallmarks of a dysfunctional family as fiction loves them since the success ofdallas or of Dynastyjewels of the 1980s and 1990s. Launched discreetly in June 2018 on HBO (in France, on OCS and now on Prime Video), the saga evokes the fate of the Roys, founders and legatees of one of the largest media communication companies and entertainment in the world.

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After a stroke that for some time led his four children to believe that they would finally be able to take over and emancipate themselves from the grip of their monstrous and all-powerful father, Logan Roy (masterfully played by the actor theatre Brian Cox) regains full powers. The patriarch chased away the vultures, disowning some, dangling his chair to others, in short, dividing to reign even better and launching his own…