HBO drama series created by Jesse Armstrong following the Roy family — owners of a global media and hospitality conglomerate — as they fight over succession in a darkly comic tragedy of late capitalism and family dysfunction.
Became the defining prestige television portrayal of contemporary oligarchic power — simultaneously satirizing and humanizing its billionaire characters — and produced some of the most acclaimed writing in the medium's history.
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