I’m not sure if it’s been talked about, but most of HBO’s successful shows (GOT, Sopranos, Oz, the Wire) have a lot of violence and murder. Succession, besides the errant bitch slap and vehicular manslaughter (if it even counts, he didn’t get in the car), has almost none.

It feels like a very intentional choice by Jesse Armstrong and team. I bet they had a scene written up in which Logan beheaded Kendall after the unsuccessful boardroom coup in season 1, but Jesse talked them off the ledge.

I was a big fan of all the classic shows that used violence as a metaphor for capitalism (Veep, Sex and The City, Arli$$) but I really appreciate Succession’s paradigmatic shift.