Shows like Succession
Family affection filtered through ownership and competition.
Starting with Succession (2018)
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What should I watch after Succession?
For Succession fans, these three shows offer different ways forward: Industry (Status as a daily test); Billions (Power expressed as strategy); The Righteous Gemstones (A family business in grotesque form). Each comparison below explains the connection and where the experience differs.
Succession makes power funny because its characters are both enormously consequential and painfully needy. A good follow-up may preserve a workplace where status is never secure, wealthy people turning relationships into strategy, or a family business whose public mission conceals private dysfunction.
Industry is the most anxious workplace drama, Billions the most tactical contest, and The Righteous Gemstones the broadest family satire. They share appetite and insecurity, but offer different amounts of comedy and different relationships to realism.
Which direction interests you?
Start with the connection you want, then read the differences before choosing.
Industry
Young finance professionals navigate ambition, insecurity, and pressure inside a competitive workplace.
Title details on TMDB ↗Why it connects
Industry follows people learning to survive in a competitive financial workplace. It connects through the fear of being replaceable and the way professional access can become confused with personal worth.
Where it differs
The viewpoint begins closer to newcomers than an established dynasty. Sex, finance, and workplace precarity create a more immediate and volatile texture.
Billions
A legal-and-financial power struggle makes maneuvering, leverage, and competing egos the main event.
Title details on TMDB ↗Why it connects
Billions turns money, law, and reputation into a continuing contest between ambitious people. Choose it for the tactical bargains and the difficulty of telling a principled position from a useful move.
Where it differs
The emphasis is on maneuvering between competing power centers. It is more overtly a duel of clever operators than a study of inherited family damage.
The Righteous Gemstones
A much broader dark comedy follows a wealthy televangelist family and its combustible rivalries.
Title details on TMDB ↗Why it connects
The Righteous Gemstones combines sibling rivalry, parental approval, and immense privilege inside a televangelist family. It connects through the gap between a public institution’s story about itself and the needs of its owners.
Where it differs
Its comedy is broader and often physically outrageous. Religion and criminal farce replace Succession’s media-boardroom precision.
These are editorial comparisons of themes, tone, and storytelling, rather than a numerical ranking or personalized results. Title identities were checked against the linked catalog or publisher records on October 25, 2026. The connections and differences are Resonami’s analysis. Sources provide title context; availability and editions can vary. Read our editorial approach and corrections policy.
Dates distinguish the film or original series being discussed. A similar premise can still mean a very different level of violence or intensity.