Succession: We Are Not Serious People - Genre Reveal Party!

To kick off our first season on the theme of "Family Matters," we're talking about HBO's Succession: a show about daddy that's got a lot of mommy issues. While clearly positioned among HBO's prestige dramas (and currently Emmy campaigning as such), many critics and fans have made the case that Succession is quite clearly a comedy. So how do we read Succession? And what is it trying to say about the family, capitalism, and genre? Spoilers: dead daddy, the Shiv of it all, #TeamGerri, Nicholaus Braun seems sketchy, and no more power point presentations from Adam McKay!Follow us @genrerevealpod on Instagram and Twitter.Follow Madeline @la_louve_rouge_ on Twitter and Instagram.Follow Dave @thisisdavemaher on Twitter and Instagram, and listen to his other podcast, This Is Your Afterlife.---Music by Kirk Rawlings from Courtesy and beige on beigeCover art by Tuli Lane-McKinley