Andrew Jones’s Reviews > Succession – Season One: The Complete Scripts > Status Update

Episode 10 - Nobody Is Ever Missing
Celebrations in the background as powerplays, mindgames, politics and death surround every minute. A sublime finale to the teething season of the show, writing beautifully nuanced yet imperfect and attainable.

Episode 9 - Pre-Nuptial
The colliding worlds, forces reckoned and destroyed in casual conversation, drugs consumed to breathe and live out the downfall of grand plans.

Episode 7 - Austerlitz
Sad, sad times as a house divided crumbles whilst those inside attempt forms of structure that only benefit themselves, hurting others as they watch the walls crash down.

Episode 6 - Which Side Are You On?
Brilliantly paced build-up and climactic tension as the forces manifest and rip apart in one big sequence.

Episode 4 - I Went To The Market
And boom! A symphony of character arcs meshing in beautiful tableau, funny and tragic, the hope and melancholic tragedy of inevitability in a horribly increasing spiral these awful humans are trapped in, whilst casually dismantling all of society.

Episode 4 - Sad Sack WASP Trap

Dark stuff, tone and character still finding footing, excised heavy doses of Shiv’s political manager story here, so she’s in the show less realised than others so far.

Lifeboats - Episode Three
Some scenes removed before air, more linear to the script than previous episode. Details here and there, but these early episodes are so strange, self-serious in a way that once characters are clearer lived and evolved immerse odd and complex comedy from their ineptitudes.

Shit Show At The Fuck Factory - one of the all-time episode titles.

Reading and watching, episode 1 today.