ThiefHott Too much of everything

Teringer An Exercise In Nonsense

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

calvinnme I will say no more as to what the title of my review means. Watch yourself and find out. Let me just say that I watched the first episode and found the whole concept mediocre. A self made man and his sprawling media empire and his four spoiled kids who are each damaged in their own unique way. OK, I get it already, the Trumps are eeeeeeeevil!!! Either that or HBO had snatched the Stetsons off of the Ewing family, moved them from Dallas to NYC, and exchanged their oil for newsprint. Haven't I seen this before???But I was wrong. This first season is a ten episode masterpiece of well written television. And the season finale was as well done as any season finale I have ever seen with some great foreshadowing (what do some of those musical pieces playing in the background mean? I think they mean something as to the plot). Brian Cox plays the 80 year old patriarch of the family, Logan Roy. He is torn. Maybe he wants to move on and pass the reins to somebody else but likes the control, or maybe it is that only one of his children shows any interest in the business and that child, Kendall, is like a soft boiled egg - not sturdy at all and easily devoured. So the set-up is that Logan Roy, on his eightieth birthday, has a cardiac event and is raced to the hospital. He is in a coma and not expected to survive. The kids make arrangements to carry on without dad and Kendall thinks he is going to take dad's place. But dad wakes up. And so besides the themes of the corrupting effect of excessive wealth we have a theme pretty much unique to the 21st century. In the past our great leaders and monarchs just passed away quietly. What happens in an age when medicine can put quite elderly people back together - sort of? As in not their brains. So Logan does gradually recover, but his behavior is erratic, sometimes stuck in neutral, sometimes violent, sometimes showing a caveman like desire for dominance (at one point he urinates on the carpet in his son Kendall's office). I'll let you watch and hope you enjoy it as much as I did. And writers - put the brakes on the f word. There were some episodes that would have been twenty minutes shorter had you left it out entirely. There are other words in the English language you can use for emphasis.

simonjthompson With so many family dramas around (Bloodline, This Is Us, Brothers & Sisters, Blue Bloods, the list is endless) this just doesn't cut the mustard. Brian Cox is brilliant and always is because he's always playing Brian Cox but the general level of acting is pitiful. Such a shame, I was really looking forward to this

hdokubo A bit sceptical at first after the first couple of episodes. Then l realised that it is essential to understand each family character and their extended family relationship to really get to the crux of the show. Boy the dialogue hits you like a sledgehammer and some interesting scenes, even comedy and tense drama from these well selected actors. Enjoying the show as it really does do its best to stand out from usual new drama run of mill shows - this show takes risk

claeyscemolo It's not suppose to be like Billions. It's a clever dark comedy.