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Shows Like Succession for Your Next Power-Struggle Binge
By Jordan A. · · Updated · 5 min read
Succession is hard to replace because the thing people miss is not the boardroom. It is the dinner table. Four seasons on HBO, created by Jesse Armstrong, and the format never changed: put a family in a room, give them one thing to want, and let the cruelty arrive in the pauses rather than the shouting.
So the test for everything below is not "is it about rich people". It is whether the show understands that the worst thing a parent can say to an adult child is delivered calmly, in front of witnesses. Season counts and networks are included. Where each one streams changes, so the title page on BingeNext shows current US options.
The closest matches
Industry is the pick if you want the same acid at a lower altitude. Four seasons on HBO since 2020, starting with graduates at a London investment bank and moving up the food chain each year. It shares Succession's belief that work language is how these people express affection and contempt. The difference is that the characters have no safety net, so the desperation reads differently. Season three is where it becomes a genuinely great show.
The Righteous Gemstones ran four seasons on HBO from 2019 to 2025 and it is the funniest version of the same story: a father who built an empire, three adult children competing to inherit it, and none of them equipped. Danny McBride pushes the comedy much further than Succession did, then lands scenes of real family damage. If you liked the Roys' worst moments played as farce, take this one.
The White Lotus is Mike White's, three seasons on HBO since 2021, each a new hotel and a new cast. It runs on the same engine: money as a personality disorder, and long scenes where somebody says something unforgivable politely. Shorter commitment than anything else here.
If you want the business, not the family
Billions is the loud one. Seven seasons on Showtime, Paul Giamatti and Damian Lewis in a prosecutor-versus-billionaire staring contest that runs far longer than its premise supports. It is more fun and less honest than Succession, and season one is the tightest.
Mad Men ran seven seasons on AMC from 2007 to 2015. If you bounced off it once, the Succession comparison is the way back in: both shows are about men whose competence is real and whose private lives are wreckage, and both use meetings as combat. It is slower. It is also better.
The Loudest Voice is seven episodes from 2019, made for Showtime, with Russell Crowe as Roger Ailes building Fox News. It is closer to a documentary in shape and much darker in intent, and it fills in the media-power background Succession only gestured at.
If what you loved was the political knife-work
One correction worth making, because the internet gets it backwards constantly: Jesse Armstrong created Succession, but Armando Iannucci created The Thick of It and Veep. Armstrong wrote on both. The family resemblance is real, the credit is not the same.
Veep ran seven seasons on HBO from 2012 to 2019 and is the best-written comedy of that decade. Julia Louis-Dreyfus as a vice president surrounded by people who are failing upward. Where Succession makes cruelty quiet, Veep makes it baroque, and the insults are constructed like small poems.
The Thick of It is the British original, four series on the BBC from 2005 to 2012, and it is meaner and cheaper looking. Peter Capaldi's Malcolm Tucker is the reference point for every shouting political operator since.
Boss is the forgotten one. Two seasons on Starz in 2011 and 2012, with Kelsey Grammer as a Chicago mayor concealing a degenerative illness while holding a machine together. Season one is eight episodes of pure viciousness, and Grammer's performance is nothing like the one you know him for.
If you want dynasty without the boardroom
The Crown is the same family structure with a thousand years attached. Six seasons on Netflix, and the early ones with Claire Foy are the strongest. The recurring scene is identical to Succession's: an adult child asking a parent for approval and being handed an institution instead.
House of the Dragon is the dragons version, HBO, and the succession crisis is literal. Strip out the fantasy and you have two branches of one family destroying an inheritance nobody has actually received yet.
If it was the writing you were there for
Slow Horses has the closest thing to Succession's dialogue in a completely different genre. Six-episode seasons on Apple TV, Gary Oldman as an intelligence officer who has been put out to pasture with the other failures. Every line does two jobs. Season six arrives in mid September 2026.
Better Call Saul ran six seasons on AMC and does the family part better than almost anything: two brothers, one legal career, and a resentment that runs for years. You do not need Breaking Bad first.
Where to start
If you want the truest replacement, start Industry and give it to the end of season one. If you want the family and the laughs, The Righteous Gemstones. If you want to feel the way you felt when Logan told his children they were not serious people, watch the Boss pilot, then keep going.
If you would rather not build the queue yourself, BingeNext's TV recommendations take Succession plus one more show you love and return picks with a reason and where each one streams. A run takes about a minute, and a free account covers three a day.
Topics covered: succession, drama, family, business
About the author
Jordan A., Founder, BingeNext
Jordan A. is the founder of BingeNext and is responsible for every guide published on this site. He built the recommendation engine after one too many nights lost to the streaming menu. Dates, season counts and where-to-watch details in these guides are checked against official sources before publishing, and corrections are welcome at Jordan@Bingenext.com.