u/Thin_Literature2950

سلام عليكم، عندي تذكرتين زايده جنب بعض في في اعلى واجهة المدرج. اللي يبيها بعطيه لان حرام تروح على الفاضي

I genuinely think Succession has overrated writing, and I feel like people confuse great acting/dialogue with great storytelling.

The biggest issue for me is that the show keeps repeating the same cycle:
“Who gets the company?” → betrayal → someone almost wins → Logan shuts them down → repeat.
And honestly, I never understood why most of the kids are SO obsessed with the company in the first place.

Kendall makes sense. He was clearly raised for it and psychologically tied to Waystar.
But Shiv? She barely worked there and had an entirely different career in politics.
Roman acts like someone who hates responsibility half the time and constantly self-sabotages.
Connor is Connor.

Yet they all act like becoming CEO is life or death. It starts feeling less like realistic character motivation and more like the plot demanding conflict.

Another thing that bothered me was the Pierce deal. In Season 2, the whole point was that the Pierces had “ethical values” and saw Waystar as morally disgusting. Then suddenly later they’re willing to sell anyway? The show tries to explain it, but it felt like a convenient rewrite to create another power struggle.
And the relationships are exhausting.

Every character backstabs each other constantly to the point where it stops being shocking or interesting. There’s barely any emotional growth. Nobody learns anything. Nobody meaningfully changes.

Tom and Shiv especially just feel toxic in a repetitive way. I understand the show is intentionally portraying emotionally damaged people, but after a while I started asking: what is even the point of this relationship besides creating uncomfortable scenes?

I still think the acting is incredible, especially Logan, Kendall, and Tom. But emotionally, the show started feeling hollow to me after a while.

Am I alone on this?