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 never lets you fully root for anyone. The Roy family, orbiting Logan's media empire like satellites waiting for him to fall, are brilliant and petty and occasionally pathetic in equal measure. The show is set in the boardrooms and penthouses of New York, but the drama is ancient: who gets the throne, and what does wanting it do to a person? It is also, quietly, very funny. That combination of vicious wit and genuine emotional weight is what keeps fans watching through every betrayal and humiliation.
The best shows like Succession
1. Shameless
Where the Roys weaponize wealth, the Gallaghers weaponize scrappiness, and the chaos is just as entertaining. Frank Gallagher is a different kind of destructive patriarch, one with far fewer resources but just as much capacity to wreck the people around him. The siblings, like the Roy children, have spent their lives compensating for a father who takes more than he gives, and watching them navigate that is frequently funny and occasionally gutting.
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2. Your Friends & Neighbors
Succession fans who are drawn to the spectacle of a powerful man in freefall will find a lot to chew on here. The show is interested in how quickly the trappings of a wealthy life can become a trap, and the main character's decision to rob his own social circle has a self-destructive logic that fans of Kendall Roy will recognize immediately. It is darker and more crime-adjacent than Succession, but the portrait of a man undone by ego and circumstance is familiar territory.
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3. Six Feet Under
Six Feet Under is quieter than Succession but just as ruthless about family. The Fishers run a business together the way the Roys do, meaning that work and grief and old resentments are permanently tangled. It takes its time, and rewards patience with some of the most honest writing about mortality and dysfunction on television.
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4. Shameless
The British original is sharper and stranger than its American counterpart, and the dysfunctional family dynamics have a dark comedic bite that Succession fans will appreciate. Frank Gallagher on a Manchester council estate is still, unmistakably, a man whose children have had to grow up around him rather than because of him, and the sibling relationships are drawn with real specificity and warmth. The class commentary runs the opposite direction from Succession, which makes it a genuinely interesting companion piece.
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5. The Righteous Gemstones
This is the most structurally similar show on the list: a dynasty built by a powerful father, three adult children sabotaging themselves and each other in the scramble for his approval, and a writers' room that clearly enjoys making wealthy people look ridiculous. The religious setting adds a layer of hypocrisy that the show mines for both laughs and genuine discomfort. If you loved the Succession siblings at their most petty and deluded, the Gemstone children are going to feel very familiar.
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More on shows like Succession
What those fans tend to want next is some version of the same formula: a family that is its own worst enemy, power or money or both used as a weapon between people who are supposed to love each other, and writing sharp enough that you feel the cuts. They are not necessarily looking for corporate settings. The Roy dynamic, at its core, is about what dysfunction looks like when the stakes are enormous, whether those stakes are a global media empire or just the rent on a Chicago bungalow.
The recommendations here cover a wide range of class and register but share that central preoccupation. The Righteous Gemstones is the most direct tonal match, swapping cable news for megachurches but keeping the sibling rivalry, the corrupt patriarch, and the dark comedy intact. Six Feet Under is slower and more elegiac, but the Fisher family's business is literally death and the show is unsparing about what proximity to that business does to each of them. Both versions of Shameless, the original British series and the longer-running American adaptation, flip the class dynamic entirely: here the family has nothing, and the struggle is to hold together anyway. Your Friends & Neighbors is the outlier in terms of family dynamics, but it speaks directly to the Succession audience's interest in wealthy people making catastrophically bad decisions under financial and social pressure.
None of these shows are Succession, and they should not be treated as substitutes. But each of them takes family seriously as a source of both love and damage, and each has a streak of dark humor running through even its saddest material. That is the connective tissue."
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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.