For example, a fleeting callback in the most recent episode to Mark Ravenhead, an anchor on the Roys’ conservative news network ATN, might have ordinarily garnered scant notice, except that the white-nationalist, occasionally bow-tied broadcaster clearly riffs on Tucker Carlson, who was abruptly fired from Fox News two weeks ago.
The weeks-long humiliation of Fox News and the Murdochs during the show’s final ten episodes has supercharged its already potent satire, making even the most minor plot points and throwaway lines feel delightfully loaded.
HBO could not have programmed the current season of “Succession” better if it had tried.