Its genius lies, for starters, in going back to basics. Family feuds are positively biblical, the preferred stuff of drama through the ages. Nowadays we dress them up as intergalactic struggles with high-octane heroes and dazzling SFX. But Succession has taken them back to Shakespeare's history plays, with a nod to King Lear , where factions talk and talk, jostle and plot, implode and regroup, claw at each other for the big prize. Who knows whether the show's writers openly use the terms, but you sense they instinctively know all about the traditional techniques of classic theatre – hubris, nemesis, the deus ex machina , not just the precepts of screenwriting school.

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