It’s a steep drop from the lavish Waystar boardroom to the Kettering car park of JLB Credit (a fictional Stefan Strauss, once a JLB boss, once investigating Waystar Cruise crimes, exists in both these universes, causing business trouble for the protagonists), but it might help ease those Kendall Roy blues. There’s similar (if not literally the same) jokes, a heady dose of cynicism, and, there’s even something of Peep Show’s trademark POV style in Succession’s wobbly camerawork and zoomed-in close-ups.
Roman’s sobering “fucky-sucky brigade” line, for example, is typical of Succession’s puerile but brilliant humour, and is a good example of both shows’ overarching theme: abject horror paired with such spit-take humour that you, like the character, forget for a minute how you’re meant to feel or who you’re meant to hate.Īll of this is to say: if you’re grieving Succession, you might be able to fill the hole by watching or rewatching Peep Show. All of which is done through the acerbic and painfully sharp wit of the writing. To be fair, tweak the details and that’s essentially the plot of Succession.Ĭentral to both shows is their petty, unlikeable, unserious characters, whose identities and ideologies are scrutinised, mocked, and ultimately pulled apart via increasingly tragic and excruciating situations.
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Fans of the series will most likely be in one of two camps at. And yet, they exist in the same ridiculous, nihilistic, cringeworthy (and corporate-ridiculing) universe – it’s just that some of them are eye-wateringly rich, while the others try to get each other sectioned during a fight for ownership of a pub that someone wants to call The Swan and Pedo. Published 15:49, 14 April 2023 BST Last updated 15:49, 14 April 2023 BST Peep Show is getting a reboot with a brand new cast. It makes sense that two shows by the same writer would have similarities, but, based on their synopses, Succession, a satire of a multi-billionaire American media dynasty, and Peep Show, a cult British sitcom about two miserable flatmates in Croydon, should be worlds apart. Both shows are also strangely obsessed with piss. Sometimes even whole lines are lifted, like Logan and Hans saying, “Can’t hack the hate”, or Logan and Jez saying, “Have a pop at the champ”. Greg (evidently the most Peep Show-esque character) says to Tom, “ That wasn’t very wedding-y”, a clear riff on Jez’s, “ That wasn’t very Christmas-y”. Greg and Jez both think the shark from Jaws is called Jaws. Greg and Tom’s Disgusting Brothers are Mark and Jez’s El Dude Brothers.
Whether you think I’m right or simply sleep-deprived, this isn’t the only Peep Show Easter egg in Succession. This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.
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