Woven through Succession is Jesse Armstrong’s penchant for heightening cringe—a clear pillar of British comedy.
show we used to call “prestige TV”—its writers may have felt obliged to craft a plot line involving Greg’s date using her ludicrously capacious bag to smuggle confidential Waystar Royco information and jeopardize the PGM deal. Instead, creator Jesse Armstrong and his cadre of British and American writers allowed her and her accessory to exist purely as vehicles for jokes – an enormous faux-pas that Tom eviscerates with a flourish.
This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who’s familiar with Armstrong’s previous work. A native of Shropshire, England, he’s also a graduate of the University of Manchester, where he met his writing partner, Sam Bain. Together, Armstrong and Bain rose through the ranks of children’s comedy and sketch comedy such as, a darkly comedic sitcom about Mark and Jez—two unlikely best friends living together in South Croydon—in 2003.
British comedy often revels in discomforting moments that feel all too real. And while a flat in South Croydon might seem many worlds away from the helicopters and penthouses of New York, Armstrong’s penchant for heightening cringe is woven through each episode ofas well.
It’s rarer still to find a British comedy that becomes the lens for an American family saga. Every episode ofhas delivered laugh-out-loud moments, whether through acerbic one-liners or goofy Greg or even Logan’s savage outbursts. They’re all effortlessly woven with the show’s intense stakes, life-or-death moments and emotional reckonings.
As Armstrong well knows, real life doesn’t have a laugh track or an epic score. The drama of the Roys can only truly be explored by sitting in the discomfort and absurdity of their wealth, entitlement, and ambition. Whether we’re watching’s The Disgusting Brothers, in Armstrong’s world, comedy will always be king.
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