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Succession (2018)
8.8/10on IMDb
First aired
The Roys own a global media empire and still behave like children fighting over the last cookie. Jesse Armstrong's HBO series is the gold standard because its jokes come from status itself: who gets the better seat, who is allowed to speak at the board meeting, who brings a ludicrously capacious bag to a party. Kendall, Shiv and Roman are funny and pitiful in the same breath, and the insults are some of the most quotable on television. It won the Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series three times across its four seasons, but watch it as a comedy about inheritance that keeps turning cruel.
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The White Lotus (2021)
8.0/10on IMDb
First aired
Each season checks a fresh batch of wealthy guests into a luxury resort for a week and lets the staff watch them crack. Mike White's anthology has moved from Hawaii to Sicily to Thailand, and the formula never stales because the guests are so convinced of their own goodness while treating the employees as furniture. It is as much social satire as murder mystery, with a body promised in the opening minutes. A fourth season set in Saint-Tropez began filming in April 2026, so this is the one to catch up on now. Expect slow-burn dread rather than gags.
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Arrested Development (2003)
8.6/10on IMDb
First aired
After George Bluth Sr. is arrested for defrauding investors, his family keeps living as if the money never left, and only son Michael notices the problem. Mitchell Hurwitz's comedy is the densest joke machine on this list: running gags, callbacks and Ron Howard's deadpan narration reward a rewatch more than almost anything else on television. Fox canceled it in 2006 despite an Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series, and Netflix later revived it. The first three seasons are the essential run; the revival seasons are patchier and best treated as extras.
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Schitt's Creek (2015)
8.5/10on IMDb
First aired
The Roses lose their Rose Video fortune and end up in a motel in the town Johnny once bought as a joke. Dan and Eugene Levy start with snobbery played at full volume, especially Catherine O'Hara's Moira and her wigs and vocabulary, then let the family discover what money had been covering. The first season is the spikiest and least sentimental, so stick with it as the satire softens into warmth. The final season swept all seven major comedy Emmys in 2020. Choose it if you want to see the rich humbled rather than destroyed.
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The Righteous Gemstones (2019)
8.1/10on IMDb
First aired
A South Carolina dynasty of televangelists preaches humility while living like royalty on the collection plate. Danny McBride's HBO comedy goes for the loudest version of wealth on this list: John Goodman's widowed patriarch, adult children squabbling over who inherits the pulpit, and money that is always one scandal from exposure. It is crude, violent and frequently absurd, so it suits viewers who like their satire broad rather than dry. Four seasons tell the complete story, ending in May 2025.
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Loot (2022)
6.8/10on IMDb
First aired
Maya Rudolph plays Molly, a tech billionaire who walks out of her marriage with an $87 billion settlement and decides to finally take an interest in the charitable foundation bearing her name. The Apple TV comedy gets its laughs from the gap between a billionaire's instincts and an ordinary office, where her grand gestures keep colliding with staff who have to make the budget work. It is a workplace sitcom first and a satire second, gentler than Succession and built around Rudolph's comic timing. Three seasons are available.
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Palm Royale (2024)
6.8/10on IMDb
First aired
In 1969, Kristen Wiig's Maxine schemes her way into Palm Beach high society, where a seat at the right lunch table matters more than anything happening in the wider world. Abe Sylvia's period comedy is a feast of pastel costumes and poolside rivalries, with Carol Burnett as a society matriarch and Laura Dern in the cast. The satire is of social climbing and old money's gatekeeping, played camp rather than cutting. Apple canceled it in March 2026 after two seasons, so it ends without a third chapter.
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Sirens (2025)
6.7/10on IMDb
First aired
Meghann Fahy's Devon arrives at an isolated island estate to rescue her sister, played by Milly Alcock, from a job as personal assistant to Julianne Moore's wealthy bird sanctuary founder. Molly Smith Metzler's Netflix black comedy is the sharpest look here at the people who serve the rich: the assistant who has absorbed her boss's tastes, the staff trained to be invisible, a lavish funeral held for a bird. Moore is magnificently serene and unsettling. Five episodes make it an easy weekend watch.
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Your Friends & Neighbors (2025)
7.6/10on IMDb
First aired
Jon Hamm's Coop, a fired, freshly divorced hedge fund manager, starts burgling his affluent neighbors to keep up the lifestyle, and finds it more thrilling than his old job. Jonathan Tropper's Apple TV series is a crime drama with a satirist's eye for gated-community life, where a stolen Patek Philippe or a forged Lichtenstein barely registers against everything else in the house. Hamm's rueful charm carries it. Darker and more plotted than the comedies here, with a second season out in April 2026 and a third already ordered.
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The Audacity (2026)
6.3/10on IMDb
First aired
Billy Magnussen plays Duncan Park, founder of the data-mining company Hypergnosis, in a dark comedy about the Palo Alto enclave where a few rich men decide how everyone else will live. Created by Succession writer Jonathan Glatzer, the AMC series turns tech-founder ego into its main source of comedy, with Sarah Goldberg, Zach Galifianakis, Lucy Punch and Simon Helberg around him. It premiered in April 2026 and AMC ordered a second season before it aired, so this is the newest way into billionaire satire and a natural next watch after Succession.
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BEEF (2023)
8.0/10on IMDb
First aired
Season 2 (2026)
The anthology's second story moves to a Montecito club, where Oscar Isaac and Carey Mulligan play a well-off married couple who run the place and Charles Melton and Cailee Spaeny play broke young employees pulled into their feud. Youn Yuh-jung plays the club's billionaire owner. It is a darkly funny revenge story about the rich and the people paid to look after them, and no knowledge of the first season is needed. Reviewers praised the four leads more consistently than the crowded plotting.
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Jeeves and Wooster (1990)
8.4/10on IMDb
First aired
Hugh Laurie's Bertie Wooster has money, a club and no discernible purpose, and depends entirely on Stephen Fry's Jeeves, his far cleverer valet, to escape social disasters and fearsome aunts. Clive Exton's ITV adaptation of P. G. Wodehouse ran from 1990 to 1993 and keeps many of the original's inspired similes. It is the gentlest satire here: idle wealth as pure farce, with the servant quietly running the show. A good palate cleanser after the darker modern series, with 23 episodes across four seasons.
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