What If ‘Succession’ Was Real Life?

Rick Hasen: “As election nightmares go, Sunday night’s episode of the HBO series Succession, ‘America Decides,’ was a doozy.”

“It was the most uncomfortable hour of scripted television I have ever watched and apparently I was not alone in being triggered. But it was not just a ‘good night of TV,’ the ultimate result of which would be that ‘nothing happens,’ as Roman Roy tries to assure his sister Shiv; it is a warning to us that the next election meltdown is always potentially around the corner.”