HBO’s Succession Is Ending. The Murdoch Family Drama Plays On.

Inside the Hive

Vanity Fair

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4.2 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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As the Succession finale nears, host Brian Stelter catches up withVanity Fair executive editor Claire Howorth about the stunning plot twists in the fictional drama—and within the real-life media dynasty. And when it comes to politics, do powerful TV networks or the president—whether Jeryd Mencken or Donald Trump—really run the show? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What is it about succession that makes you addicted to it?
0:07.0	Oh God, I would love to say it's partly because I have spent many years almost two decades
0:13.6	watching the Murdochs exist in real life, but really the writing is just brilliant and
0:19.5	the show is brilliant and I think the critique they are offering in this particular moment
0:24.0	in the culture is searing and delicious.
0:26.8	What is the critique?
0:27.8	I think something different than I used to.
0:30.3	Now I believe it's really, really sending up capitalism in the most dark way.
0:36.6	I thought perhaps it was more akin to billions in the original iteration and it was a fun
0:44.3	glimpse inside a strange, powerful family.
0:48.0	Now I think, given what we see happen, especially to the women on the show, it's art.
0:55.4	It's Claire Hohworth, executive editor of Vanity Fair and I'm Brian Stelter.
1:00.0	Welcome to Inside the Hive.
1:03.7	So it's power corrupts and ruins lives, destroys families.
1:09.8	Destroyes families, yes.
1:11.3	Capitalism.
1:12.3	Capitalism.
1:13.3	Capitalism.
1:14.3	Capitalism.
1:15.3	And greed, classic greed.
1:16.3	I think it's more about greed than maybe capitalism, I don't know.
1:20.2	What do you think?
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