TV Shows Like Succession
If you like Succession, here are 12 similar TV shows — each with its current AI renewal verdict, so you can see which are still going and which have been cancelled.
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Succession works because it is a show about people who have everything and are still miserable about it. The Roy family's dysfunction is not incidental to the plot, it is the plot. Sibling rivalry, a father who wields love like a weapon, and an empire that may or may not survive its own leadership, all of it runs on a particular kind of dark comedy where the jokes land hardest because the stakes are high. HBO gave it the budget and the breathing room to feel cinematic, but the writing earns every minute.
The best shows like Succession
1. Shameless
Where Succession asks what a family does with too much money, Shameless asks what one does with almost none at all. The Gallagher kids are, like the Roys, largely raising themselves in the shadow of a father who is more obstacle than parent. The same vicious humor and sibling solidarity that runs through Succession is here, just relocated from Manhattan penthouses to Chicago's South Side.
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2. Your Friends & Neighbors
If you liked watching Succession's characters justify increasingly reckless behavior because they felt entitled to it, Your Friends & Neighbors operates on a similar logic. A man stripped of his wealth and status turns to crime to stay in the world he thinks he deserves, and the show is shrewd about how identity and money are almost the same thing for people at this level. The crime element tightens what might otherwise be a character study into something with real momentum.
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3. Shameless
The British original that the American Shameless was based on, set on a Manchester council estate, and probably the darker and stranger of the two versions. The Gallagher family here has the same chaotic sibling energy as the Roys, minus the corporate board meetings, and the father figure is just as destabilizing. The show has an anarchic streak that feels close in spirit to Succession's willingness to let its characters be genuinely awful.
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4. Six Feet Under
Six Feet Under is the show to watch if what you loved about Succession was the family business structure and the weight of a patriarch's presence over everything. The Fisher family runs a funeral home rather than a media empire, but the dynamic of siblings navigating grief, obligation, and resentment while keeping a business alive is immediately recognizable. It is more emotionally open than Succession and takes that as a strength rather than a weakness.
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5. The Righteous Gemstones
The Righteous Gemstones is probably the most direct companion piece to Succession on this list. A dynastic family, a patriarch who built an empire through force of personality, and adult children who are competing, failing, and embarrassing themselves in roughly equal measure. The setting is evangelical Christianity rather than media, but the show's interest in inherited power and the people who feel they deserve it translates perfectly.
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More on shows like Succession
Fans of Succession tend to be drawn to a specific combination: family as a battlefield, money or power as the thing everyone is fighting over, and characters who are neither heroes nor villains but something messier. They want dialogue that has real bite and a plot that does not resolve neatly into lessons. They are also, often, more tolerant of dark humor than the average drama viewer. The shows below each hit at least a few of those notes, though they come from some genuinely different directions.
The two versions of Shameless, the American and the British original, both trade in a dysfunctional family surviving on wit and spite, though the Gallaghers are working-class rather than billionaires. The gap in wealth is the point, actually. Six Feet Under is the most emotionally direct of the group, a family business drama that goes places Succession never quite does. Your Friends & Neighbors shares Succession's interest in wealthy people behaving badly, with a crime plot that tightens the screws episode by episode. The Righteous Gemstones is probably the closest in tone: a powerful family dynasty built on ego and bad faith, played for dark laughs, with the same sense that everyone involved deserves what they get.
None of these are Succession, but that is not the goal. Each one has a reason to exist on its own terms, and each one will scratch a specific itch that the Roy family created.
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Frequently asked
- What is the most popular show like Succession?
- Shameless is the most popular show similar to Succession in the IsItRenewed catalogue.
- Are shows like Succession still on the air?
- Of the 12 shows similar to Succession listed here, 1 currently carry a renewed verdict — the rest are cancelled, ended, or awaiting a decision.
- How does IsItRenewed pick shows like Succession?
- The recommendations come from TMDB's similar-titles data, and each is shown with its current AI renewal verdict so you know which are still going.