I may be verging on the point of obsession by posting a third (fourth?) time about the HBO show Succession but it is only so far as to say, I’ve found a superior alternative. It’s a book called Dunbar by Edward St. Aubyn — in conjunction with the publisher, Hogarth Shakespeare, St. Aubyn has adapted King Lear to novel form, and set it in present day. Not just present day, but within the skeleton of a multi-billion dollar media empire. Dunbar is the head, his two eldest daughters have gotten in cahoots with the family doctor to make Dunbar (temporarily?) insane - and committed, so they can take over the business amidst some serious corporate turmoil. It’s more or less the same exact world and tone of Succession but, well, I like it more. There’s more character depth, more shocking “battles”, the humor is multi-leveled and the tragedy absolutely real. Because there’s an internal existence to these characters, they’re not just caricatures of various forms of greed. Some of them in the novel are surely over the top, but even that heightened quality serves a purpose. And at the end of the day, isn’t Succession basically just an American version of King Lear anyways? I say go straight to the source, but with a twist, instead.
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