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Succession (2018)First aired Jun 3, 2018The 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…0
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The White Lotus (2021)First aired Jul 11, 2021Each 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…0
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Arrested Development (2003)First aired Nov 2, 2003After 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…0
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Schitt's Creek (2015)First aired Jan 13, 2015The 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…0
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The Righteous Gemstones (2019)First aired Aug 18, 2019A 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…0
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Loot (2022)First aired Jun 23, 2022Maya 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,…0
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Palm Royale (2024)First aired Mar 19, 2024In 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…0
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Sirens (2025)First aired May 22, 2025Meghann 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…0
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Your Friends & Neighbors (2025)First aired Apr 10, 2025Jon 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…0
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The Audacity (2026)First aired Apr 5, 2026Billy 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…0