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TV Critic James Poniewozik on the Murdochs and 'Succession' | 11

Even the Rich

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The Untouchable Edge of Succession

The Murdochs are an ultra wealthy politically sophisticated media savvy family. It does something that feels very accurately of the moment that past soaps about rich families hadn't done it. There's this sense in succession that they don't really see themselves as belonging to the same species at the rest of us. And that is the thing that is I think simultaneously fascinating and horrifying about it.

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