‘Parents who love their children also f--- them up’: How we wrote Succession

• Andrew O’Hagan For the past 10 years, probably the most important show that has appeared on television has been Succession: beautifully written, beautifully acted, beautifully conceived, and endlessly inquiring about the nature of the world that we’re living in – and that great sort of disaster that has been the media’s influence in our everyday lives. It’s a moral inquiry. Was it a political show from the beginning?