Often when I mention all of the above to someone who is a millennial or younger, the response is either, “I’ve never even heard of this show. (It returns for season four on November 7.) And while a lot of Succession’s audience comes from streaming - which is impossible to measure as precisely as live TV viewership, and likely makes Succession more popular than its live ratings would suggest - Yellowstone, which also gains some viewership from streaming, is almost certainly still more popular. But Yellowstone drew 4.23 million viewers for its own season three premiere in June 2020. Succession drew a respectable 564,000 viewers for its season three premiere in October. Does that make Yellowstone a red-state version of Succession? That’s a really reductive statement, so I’d never say that, but if you want to say it, I won’t stop you. Where Succession takes place against the backdrop of the New York media world, Yellowstone takes place on a massive ranch in the middle of Montana. But it’s also an exact description of a different cable drama that is significantly more popular, viewership-wise: the Paramount Network’s Kevin Costner-starring primetime soap Yellowstone.
Oh, and they spend a lot of time feuding with the government.ĭoes that sound like an exact description of Succession? Because technically, it’s an exact description of Succession. The family is beset on all sides by those who would slice up its empire and gobble it whole. The daughter’s love interest and a gangly goofball who has little to do with the main family unit form an unlikely comedic duo.
They include an eldest son who offers little, a second son who is the tortured heir apparent, a business-savvy daughter who’s the father’s favorite (though he would never say so), and a youngest son who is kind of a fuckup but also is clearly going to take over the family business when all is said and done. His four children snipe and backbite about each other.
A tyrannical father flaunts his copious wealth for all to see.
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