Instead of dwelling on the crisis you’re actually living, watch these crises instead
An aging, Rupert Murdoch-type tycoon named Logan Roy falls ill, and his children begin pondering life after dad. How the family manages all this has implications for a conservative cable-news channel, a polished-up Bernie Sanders-esque presidential contender and the Roy family itself, with its own history of corporate misdeeds and coverups, which threaten to come to light in the most public and politically damaging ways.
With cruise ships figuring so heavily into both the real-life Covid-19 saga and the fictional scandal threatening Roy’s media company, Waystar/Royco, you might not be able to escape what we’re all living through right now. But you will, at least, get to enjoy the venal and hilariously mean-spirited characters inhabiting “Succession.” You might even get to see them held accountable for their actions—the surest sign this is not real life.to quarantine binging isn’t for everyone.
Lately, I’ve been remembering a scene in “All That Heaven Allows,” Douglas Sirk’s 1955 technicolor masterpiece, in which we understand that Jane Wyman’s character, a lonely widow, is fully cut off from society. Her visage is seen reflected on a new TV set, a Christmas gift she couldn’t be less interested in, given to her by two adult children who couldn’t be less interested in her.
In the 1950s, that was presented as a bad thing—her isolation is complete, and the only people to keep her company are on the TV screen. But in 2020, with isolation and social distancing necessary to save lives and “flatten the curve” of coronavirus-related hospitalizations, it’s the right idea, at least for the time being.
“All you have to do is turn that dial, and you’ll have all the company you want—right there on the screen,” Wyman is told. “Drama, comedy; life’s parade at your fingertips.”
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