Irish Examiner View: Dark heart in last rites of 'Succession'

The popular and critically-acclaimed drama has become the narrative arc for the Trump era.

Jeremy Strong as Kendall, Sarah Snook as Shiv and Kieran Culkin as Roman in hit HBO drama Succession. Picture : PA Photo/HBO

It’s commonly held that the golden days of appointment television — those programmes which produced “water-cooler moments” when everyone was in the office together — have long since departed. 

As the novelist and playwright Conal Creedon pointed out yesterday in the Irish Examiner, viewing is no longer a communal activity.