Family fortunes: Huawei, the Murdochs…OnlyFans?

I t's King Lear. It's Ivan the Terrible. It's the boardroom life of Rupert Murdoch and his children, transfigured onto screen. Jesse Armstrong's "Succession", now returned like hunting season or a course of therapy, professes to be drawn from all three. But its featured patriarch, Logan Roy (played by a Brian Cox so silverbacked it's easy to imagine him scowling and naked behind zoo glass), is more knowable and less murderous than any of those models. His children, divided by intrigues but united by a vision of the future in which their father's coffin is at the centre of the family portrait, are not yet beasts. They would remove his voting rights but not pluck out his eyes. The Economist today Handpicked stories, in your inbox A daily newsletter with the best of our journalism Sign up Continuing series can't quite be tragedies: they must be comedies. Armstrong abandoned his plans to kill the king in the first season, so the Roys struggle on into their third season, burdened by anxieties that only 100% inheritance tax could assuage. Perhaps that's how the show should end, with an executive order signed by Bernie Sanders. If that seems ludicrous, think of the… Read full this story

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