{"id":264179,"date":"2018-08-10T11:53:55","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T09:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=264179"},"modified":"2018-08-10T12:12:23","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T10:12:23","slug":"catch-hbos-intriguing-succession-on-showmax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/industry-news\/264179\/catch-hbos-intriguing-succession-on-showmax\/","title":{"rendered":"Catch HBO\u2019s intriguing \u2018Succession\u2019 on Showmax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">HBO\u2019s latest drama \u2013 Succession \u2013 follows the Roy family, which controls Waystar Royco \u2013 one of the biggest media and entertainment conglomerates in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aUdwBwJ4MlM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Set in New York, Succession takes a look at the 1% of families in the world that own helicopters and dozens of luxury cars, while revealing the dynamics that come with astronomical wealth and power. Oh, and the complete corruption often associated with it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The series centres on ageing patriarch, and Rupert Murdoch-esque media mogul, Logan Roy (Brian Cox), who is the founder of Waystar Royco. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As Logan\u2019s health takes a sudden turn for the worse, his four children, Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Shiv (Sarah Snook), Roman (Kieran Culkin), and Connor (Alan Ruck) are left vying for control over the multibillion-dollar corporation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Logan&#8217;s eldest son from his second marriage and a division president at the firm, Kendall Roy, is the heir apparent. But despite a best-laid succession plan, tempers flare over Logan&#8217;s intentions, creating much division.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><b>Making Succession<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Show writer Jesse Armstrong\u2019s inspiration for the series came from books and other TV shows, which portrayed how rich and influential people can get away with things that lower-class people would never dream of. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThere were some themes that were interesting to do in comedy and drama, such as old men who are kings, emperors, and business owners who want to live on beyond their years,\u201d said Armstrong. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The show is based on some commonalities across media-owning families, and portrays the themes around power, politics, money, and family, but with an underrepresented perspective of the dynamics in families of America\u2019s corporate overlords. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt\u2019s about the relationship with the media, and how a small number of people and families have such a disproportionate effect on the world we live in,\u201d said Armstrong.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Armstrong, it also portrays the huge wall of money between them and the world, and how they just don\u2019t have to deal with life. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><b>Watch Succession on Showmax now<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Succession brings with it all the glitz and glamour you\u2019d expect from a dynastic family, but as the saying goes \u2013 not all that all glitters is gold.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And although it\u2019s classified as a drama, viewers will find some dark comedy, creating the perfect balance for intriguing television. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Get in on the juicy drama in HBO\u2019s latest tragicomedy series streaming exclusively on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.showmax.com\/eng\/welcome\/za\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Showmax<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For more information, or to sign up for a 14-day trial, visit the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.showmax.com\/eng\/signup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Showmax website<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.showmax.com\/eng\/welcome\/za\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Watch Succession now&gt;&gt;<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get in on the juicy drama in HBO\u2019s latest tragicomedy series streaming exclusively on Showmax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":264181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10459],"tags":[26,10293],"class_list":["post-264179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-headline","tag-showmax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264179"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264205,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264179\/revisions\/264205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}