HBO's searing, hilarious and surprisingly emotional drama returns even stronger for its second season.
which presents the 1 percent's excess as the thing the 99 percent flinch at — could such a baldly gloat-filled paean to capitalism from a media mogul to his devastated brood of horrible offspring register as such a sad, fractured and empty declaration.
The Roys, the fictitious media mogul family partly resembling the Murdochs and the Redstones in their wild, behind-the-scene machinations, were always very unlikely candidates for lovability . But perhaps the bigger surprise is that, after somewhat of a warming period fueled by intense critical acclaim, they have proven to be popular.
He succeeded by dousing the whole thing in the kind of frenetic, brutally funny comedy he practiced writing for Armando Iannucci's British series, a sketch series, among others. The biting humor leavened some of the venality and it mademove with real zest, but Armstrong also deftly made the show a compelling drama, a tonal tour-de-force that set up a split on whether it was one or the other .
The series leans heavily on Culkin's Roman as the comic foil — he's completely unfiltered and his disdain for actual work mixes with the joy he finds in his own family's incredible dysfunction and the theater it provides him; the cherry on top is that Roman is mostly clueless about how to do anything, much less run a business, but Armstrong gives him just enough actual smarts and insight to make Roman something far greater than a caricature.
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