Items10The creator’s order
  1. 1Industry (2020)Industry (2020) 7.5/10 on IMDbFirst aired 9 Nov 2020The junior employees of a London investment bank have to sell confidence before they possess much security. Every apparently friendly conversation can change a colleague's value or expose a weakness. It offers Succession's appetite for advantage from a less protected starting position, with…0
  2. 2Billions (2016)Billions (2016) 8.3/10 on IMDbFirst aired 17 Jan 2016A hedge-fund operator and a federal prosecutor turn professional authority into an intensely personal contest. The pleasure is in the manoeuvring: favours, information and spectacularly well-timed insults become working tools. This is more openly a game of clever countermoves than Succession's…0
  3. 3The Righteous Gemstones (2019)The Righteous Gemstones (2019) 8.1/10 on IMDbFirst aired 18 Aug 2019Replace the media empire with a megachurch and the adult children remain desperately hungry for recognition. Danny McBride makes the family business's language of virtue collide with greed, sexual embarrassment and sibling panic. It is broader, louder and more physically outrageous than Succession.…0
  4. 4The Thick of It (2005)The Thick of It (2005) 8.7/10 on IMDbFirst aired 19 May 2005A government department spends much of its time trying to survive the consequences of what somebody has just said. Peter Capaldi's Malcolm Tucker turns the arrival of a phone call into a workplace emergency. There is no wealthy family here; the attraction is the same humiliating gap between public…0
  5. 5Halt and Catch Fire (2014)Halt and Catch Fire (2014) 8.4/10 on IMDbFirst aired 1 Jun 2014Building a technology business gives these characters a reason to need one another and endless reasons to dispute who deserves the credit. Ambition moves through friendships, marriages and partnerships rather than staying in a boardroom. Its first season leans harder on the volatile visionary; the…0
  6. 6Boss (2011)Boss (2011) 8.1/10 on IMDbFirst aired 21 Oct 2011Kelsey Grammer's Chicago mayor has accumulated enough power to make almost every relationship an instrument. A serious diagnosis makes the effort of concealing weakness increasingly consequential. The language of duty repeatedly covers a struggle to remain indispensable. This acclaimed but…0
  7. 7Trust (2018)Trust (2018) 7.5/10 on IMDbFirst aired 25 Mar 2018The 2018 FX drama uses the Getty kidnapping to ask what money can buy and what a family can refuse to give. Donald Sutherland's patriarch makes possession and affection difficult to separate. Its dramatised account is stylised, violent and sometimes darkly funny rather than a neutral history…0
  8. 8The Riches (2007)The Riches (2007) 7.8/10 on IMDbFirst aired 12 Mar 2007A family of con artists adopts the identity of an affluent suburban household, forcing everybody to perform a new version of belonging. Wealth becomes a set of habits that can be studied, copied and disastrously misread. The outsider viewpoint makes a useful companion to the Roys' entitlement. The…0
  9. 9Monarca (2019)Monarca (2019) 7.8/10 on IMDbFirst aired 13 Sept 2019Ana María returns to Mexico and finds that the family tequila empire's succession problem cannot be separated from corruption and old grievances. The Spanish-language series gives the business a particular social setting while keeping the siblings' struggle immediate. It is more melodramatic and…0
  10. 10The Legacy (2014)The Legacy (2014) 7.6/10 on IMDbFirst aired 1 Jan 2014An artist's death leaves her adult children arguing over an inheritance that none can treat as merely financial. In the Danish drama, a house or a work of art becomes an account of who was loved, excluded or expected to cope. The scale is quieter than the Roy empire, but the family members'…0