Somehow I Like Everyone, Because Everyone Is Terrible
If you’re not familiar, Succession tells the story of the Roy family. The father, Logan Roy, founded and owns one of the biggest media corporations in the United States: Waystar/Royco.
Logan’s grown children are Connor (the weird one who lacks self-awareness), Kendall (the son who carries the weight of expectation on his shoulders), Roman (the lovable jerk who never feels good enough) and Shiv (gorgeous, ambitious, and the apple of her father’s eye). There’s also Shiv’s perpetually-kissing-up fiancée, Tom, and Cousin Greg, the young interloper who is trying to move past failure by climbing the corporate ladder alongside his successful distant relatives.
By the end of a baseball scene in the first episode, it becomes clear: these people are all horrible, morally bankrupt messes. This quality should be off-putting, but instead it allows you to just sit back and enjoy the stories that unfold in each episode. If everyone is terrible, it means you can focus on what’s going on and not worry about who’s trying to do the right thing.
This amorality also allows the audience to inhabit an interesting point of view: you want the characters to succeed sometimes, because they’re still human. You also want them to fail, because that’s the desired comeuppance for those who perpetuate corporate greed.