“The Poison Drips Through”: Succession Season 4, Episode 8

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One of the most extraordinary sleight-of-hands a dramatist can pull is when they remind us that the antihero we’ve been following is in fact, the villain. Shakespeare was a master of this: in Macbeth, we are willing to go along with Macbeth for the first two-thirds of the play because of his inner conflict between his ambition and his morality. It’s only when he orders the murder of…