You don’t have to like the Roys to love them
many episodes you watch in a sitting. As the old joke says of Scotch whisky, one hour of “Succession” is fine. Two may be too many: without intending to, you are liable to start mimicking the foul-mouthed way the characters all talk, threatening to “beast” a housemate for leaving the top off the toothpaste, or grind their bones for burning the toast, or jam a Mont Blanc down their throat. Only with added expletives.
And yet, as in the punchline of the joke about whisky, though two episodes may be too many, three are too few. Anyone who swallowed their scruples to make it that far into the first season is probably devouring the third as it airs now. Like fealty to a reprobate politician, attachment to the Roys is a one-way valve. However hard they try—and they do—nothing will put you off.
Bravo. Likeability is an odd requirement, as well as a sterile and stifling one. From Iago to Humbert Humbert and Tom Ripley, many of art’s greatest characters are irredeemable villains. They throng fairy-tales and children’s books, which help induct youngsters into the moral complexity of the universe. All the stranger that many adult readers and viewers now seem to want fiction to shrink their moral horizons rather than expanding them.
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