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Succession (2018)
8.8/10on IMDb
First aired
A decision about the company can double as a test of a child's worth. The Roys turn appointments, deals and access to their father into competing forms of power. The business has advisers and consequences beyond the family, which makes their personal manoeuvring more than a private squabble. Start here for sharp dialogue and the difficulty of separating competence from inherited entitlement.
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The Bear (2022)
8.5/10on IMDb
First aired
The inherited sandwich shop comes with debts, entrenched habits and staff who remember its previous owner. Carmy's ideas have to survive service, purchasing and the people expected to carry them out. Family grief can turn a practical disagreement into something much older. Choose it for the operational pressure of a small business, accepting shouting and an increasingly ambitious restaurant.
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Six Feet Under (2001)
8.7/10on IMDb
First aired
The Fisher funeral home puts family life beside a workplace that cannot simply close when feelings become inconvenient. Clients need care, bodies need preparation and ownership has to be negotiated. The siblings' different relationships with the business keep resentment connected to real labour. Its dark humour is valuable, but death and grief are present in virtually every episode.
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Queen Sugar (2016)
7.8/10on IMDb
First aired
The Bordelon siblings inherit land with financial, agricultural and historical obligations, not just an asset to admire. Different skills and ambitions make running the sugarcane farm an argument about what the family owes itself and its community. Choose it for work whose ownership matters, with a broader family drama giving each business decision emotional roots.
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Greenleaf (2016)
7.5/10on IMDb
First aired
The Memphis megachurch is a spiritual community and an institution whose leadership, finances and public reputation are tied to one family. A private grievance can therefore affect employees and congregants who never chose the feud. Choose it for an expansive, soapy examination of inherited authority. Its particular scandals are not a judgement on every church or believer.
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Gentefied (2020)
7.4/10on IMDb
First aired
The cousins' ideas for saving their grandfather's taco shop raise different questions about customers, identity and who a changing neighbourhood serves. A menu or a business plan can feel like a statement of loyalty. The comic drama keeps the shop connected to rent and working lives. A good smaller-scale choice, with its cancelled run leaving some future possibilities unresolved.
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Bloodline (2015)
7.8/10on IMDb
First aired
The Rayburn inn depends on hospitality and a public image of family solidity. A returning brother exposes how unevenly that welcoming image has been maintained at home. Choose it for the gap between the business guests experience and the work of keeping its owners' history contained. The thriller grows darker than a straightforward workplace drama and becomes uneven later on.
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Peaky Blinders (2013)
8.7/10on IMDb
First aired
The Shelby enterprise has money to collect, alliances to negotiate and relatives whose loyalty cannot be assumed. Tommy's expansion plans change what everyone else is expected to risk. It is an intensified criminal version of the family firm, with violence taking the place of ordinary commercial safeguards. Choose it for the struggle between strategic authority and people who remember the boss as a brother.
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The Split (2018)
7.9/10on IMDb
First aired
The Defoes advise clients on ending marriages while their own family loyalties spill into professional choices. Moving firms can look like a sensible career decision to one person and a personal betrayal to another. The legal work supplies more than office scenery. A strong pick if you like capable people discovering that expertise does not make their own relationships easier.
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The Split Up (2026)
First aired
The 2026 companion series gives Manchester's Kishan Law its own family and succession problem. Aria's readiness to lead is entangled with what her father believes he built and what relatives expect from one another. Choose it for a contemporary family practice where a professional handover is also a renegotiation of belonging. It stands apart from the Defoes' London story.
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Mr Selfridge (2013)
7.7/10on IMDb
First aired
A department store needs buying, selling, publicity and staff management while its founder tries to maintain authority at home. Harry's appetite for risk makes those spheres increasingly difficult to keep apart. Choose it for the practical bustle around a conspicuous proprietor, with later generations adding another claim on the business. This is a historical dramatisation with substantial personal melodrama.
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Empire (2015)
7.4/10on IMDb
First aired
A music label gives the Lyons tangible things to fight over: artists, releases, performances and the authority to decide whose talent counts. The children cannot separate creative ambition from the question of which one their father trusts. Choose it for heightened family melodrama with an industry engine underneath. It is extravagant and uneven rather than a restrained account of running a label.
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Monarca (2019)
7.8/10on IMDb
First aired
The tequila empire brings production, reputation and corrupt relationships into a family dispute about leadership. Ana María's return challenges methods others regard as the price of survival. Choose it for the difficulty of changing a business whose success has already created obligations you would rather reject. It is a glossy Mexican saga with violent stakes and an unresolved cancelled ending.
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Riches (2022)
7.2/10on IMDb
First aired
Flair & Glory is a Black British hair-and-beauty business with a brand, customers and a legacy worth fighting over. The competing branches of the Richards family bring different claims and professional skills to its future. Choose it for the collision between commercial ability and an emotionally loaded inheritance. The short run is lively and glamorous, with more family history than tidy consensus.
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Harlots (2017)
7.6/10on IMDb
First aired
Margaret Wells' attempts to secure a better future for her daughters are bound to the brothel she runs and the customers who hold economic power. Protection, promotion and exploitation can become uncomfortably entangled. Choose it for a period family enterprise where the work has serious material consequences. Sexual coercion and violence make this one of the tougher choices here.
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