Succession is back. Here's what’s it really like to grow up in a family that meets around a boardroom together
Photo: Peter Kramer/HBO For the overwhelming majority of viewers, HBO’s Succession — which returned for its second season on Sunday — is an act of glorious escapism. The show allows those of us in the non-private-jet-owning classes to live vicariously through the extravagances of the billionaire Roy family, while also laughing at their greed and stupidity as they vie for control of the family fortune. The show is fiction .
Other branches of my family reacted way more extravagantly. My uncle has like, 14 cars — a Ferrari, a Porsche, old GPs, plus power boats, Jet Skis, ATVs, and two massive houses. And the kids all have penthouse apartments and drive Range Rovers and Porsches. My aunt’s a pretty stereotypical gold digger, like in the movies. But I mean, she’s really lovable. She’s my favorite aunt. Some people in my family have never had jobs. They’ve just been on the dole for their whole lives.
My summer house is technically owned by a corporation, made up of all of our family members. It’s run like a business. I got in trouble for having a party there when I was a teenager, and I was temporarily banned by the board. There’s all these rules. When we turn 30, everyone’s supposed to pay money to stay there.
“One day he said to us: ‘I’m not going to leave you guys anything.’” On my dad’s side we are old money; they sold our company for around $600 million. And my mom’s side of the family is in the real-estate business. “The emotional tie that this money has is really messed up.” My dad started a small construction business out of our basement. It grew really quickly while I was in college, from around five to 100 employees; I think the revenue was about $60 million. We sold that part of the business, but now we have a real-estate-holding company.
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