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. 1 Season Comedy about an English Web designer in Los Angeles who mistakenly fancies himself a ladies man and social climber. Peep Show This multi award-winning and critically acclaimed hit comedy follows the private worlds of two twenty-something, utterly dysfunctional flatmates living in south London.
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. This acclaimed, brilliant comedy tracks the everyday occurances of a pair of highly dysfunctional, well-meaning. 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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