Even that was under the supervision of Charlie Brooker, within the tonal world he had created for his Black Mirror anthology. Armstrong, 52, acknowledges that in a similar vein the pressing concerns that came with putting out each episode of Succession didn’t allow much time for morbid reflection.

Underscoring the Shakespearean parallels Succession has been subjected to from the start, “Connor’s Wedding” feels like a play, with most of the action happening in confined spaces in real time — on the yacht where the wedding takes place and on the plane where Logan dies. Former attorney general] Bill Barr and [ex-secretary of state] Rex Tillerson were really quite significant in their own fields. Bowler said: "The writing of ’Succession’ has consistently been among the best of the era, in any form.

Once finished, they came up with the idea for Stranger Things and pitched it to fifteen cable networks—all of whom rejected it, saying a plot involving kids as leading characters wouldn’t work. In fact, I was worried, shooting into the bitter cold sundown, that the statue’s inclusion was too direct a symbol. I don’t stand on a high horse – I think we all know the slight impulse to be subsumed and to give your identity up to a patriarchal figure. Yes you can pick up some tips like formatting and such but not how to master the craft like a true professional.

Getting names in a script to feel real can be hard for me – they’re a tell-tale sign of whether I’m living inside it.The way the US media’s conservative outriders prepared the way for Trump, hovered at the brink of support and then dived in. When Logan Roy, the head of one of the world’s largest media and entertainment conglomerates, decides to retire, each of his four grown children follows a personal agenda that doesn’t always sync with those of their siblings — or their father. He also selected his own Anglo-American writing team that worked out of London offices, first in Brixton and later in Victoria.