are all striking a chord but i think that succession is the show that gives us the most complete picture it's unflinching in the way it critiques capitalism and the way it reflects our own anxieties about it back at us but i think that the fact that the show gets us to both laugh at and care for its characters is a testament to how excellent and nuanced that criticism is somehow it's able to balance both humiliation and empathy succession cultivates an internal conflict within its audience about each of these characters in a way that draws our attention away from who's going to win to should anyone and what happens next so is succession about climate change well it's about a group of people on the verge of collapse having conquered everything but their own mortality with their own greed and incompetence coming back to haunt them so yeah kind of oh hey it's me the skip intro himself i know that i'm usually in these videos but this time i wasn't but maybe that's because i was so busy binging documentaries on this video sponsor curiositystream curiositystream is a documentary streaming service that's super passionate about education they have thousands of titles in their collection ranging from super cool topics like history and nature to less interesting topics like science and technology i hear some people are interested in that but i've never gotten it personally i'd recommend apocalypse world war one i'm a big world war one fan you know the tragedy of it all but not as tragic as the next one it uses colorized footage from the beginning of the century which is super fascinating from both a film and from a history perspective the best way you can get access to curiosity stream is actually by signing up for the package that includes nebula which is a streaming service created by myself and other video essay people and creative educational youtubers there we don't have to worry about demonetization or copyright strikes which is great when you're discussing something like succession which is owned by hbo right now curiosity stream is offering NUMBER_TOKEN off their annual plan it's less than NUMBER_TOKEN a year for both curiosity stream and nebula that's two great streaming services for less than the price of one all you have to do is click the link in the description or go to curiositystream skip intro to get started today and if you're thinking hey i just want to help this one guy skip intro guy he looks like a really cool dude you can like this video you can subscribe and you can even head over to my patreon there's a ton of extra content over there we're talking about every episode of succession as soon as it comes out there's a rewatch podcast where we're covering each season of the americans and other shows in the future there are monthly roundups of all the tv i'm watching you get early access to videos and there's q and a's maybe there'll even be some sick merch in the future if you're familiar with the channel you might know that i've been doing a propaganda series and if there are enough patrons over on patreon i will do an episode on paw patrol the most copy gandiest of them all i know that this wasn't a coppaganda video but i needed a break and we'll get back to that
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN sponsor curiositystream curiositystream is a documentary streaming service that's super passionate about education they have thousands of titles in their collection ranging from super cool topics like history and nature to less interesting topics like science and technology i hear some people are interested in that but i've never gotten it personally i'd recommend apocalypse world war one i'm a big world war one fan you know the tragedy of it all but not as tragic as the next one it uses colorized footage from the beginning of the century which is super fascinating from both a film and from a history perspective the best way you can get access to curiosity stream is actually by signing up for the package that includes nebula which is a streaming service created by myself and other video essay people and creative educational youtubers there we don't have to worry about demonetization or copyright strikes which is great when you're discussing something like succession which is owned by hbo right now curiosity stream is offering NUMBER_TOKEN off their annual plan it's less than NUMBER_TOKEN a year for both curiosity stream and nebula that's two great streaming services for less than the price of one all you have to do is click the link in the description or go to curiositystream skip intro to get started today END_SPONSOR_TOKEN