10 Shows to Watch If You Love Succession
Finding a good show after Succession can be surprisingly difficult: you may want the money, the ruthless family politics, the comedy, or simply characters who make every conversation feel like a negotiation. The ten recommendations below follow your ranking exactly. We start the countdown at your #10 and leave your #1 pick for last.
These are not ten copies of Succession. They are ten different answers to the same viewing itch: power changing how people love, work, compete and behave. You will find finance, corporate founders, political offices, media companies, family businesses, dark comedies and prestige dramas.
Every entry begins with the premise, so you can meet the main characters and understand the conflict before the opinion. Then we explain what works, why the series holds this particular rank and who is most likely to enjoy it. Streaming availability is linked to current UK listings because rights change.
Keep this list handy if you are searching for shows like Succession, corporate drama, HBO dramas, dark comedy, workplace satire, prestige television or a new series to binge. Choose based on whether you miss the boardroom, the family mess, the jokes or the uneasy feeling that everyone is negotiating. Let’s get into it 👇
What makes a useful follow-up is not a matching set of boardroom furniture. It is the pressure underneath the scenes: people with limited time, unequal leverage and a reason to keep showing up even when the room turns against them. Some of these series put that pressure inside a company; others move it into a family, a government office, a restaurant or a holiday resort. That gives you several routes back into the kind of television Succession made so watchable.
The closest match will depend on which part of the Roy story stayed with you. If you liked watching people read a room, try a workplace drama. If the family arguments were the draw, pick a show where affection and inheritance collide. If you mostly want sharp dialogue, the comedies below can provide the same pleasure of hearing a character say exactly the wrong thing with complete confidence.
We have kept this countdown in your chosen order, so the #1 recommendation is saved for the end. The ranking weighs how clearly each show sets up its conflict, how memorable its characters are, how well it sustains its premise, and how specifically it answers the question “what should I watch after Succession?” These are different shows with their own voices, and the comparisons are here to help you choose your next watch, not to suggest that any one series needs to imitate the Roy family.
Before you press play, check the UK viewing link in the relevant entry. Streaming catalogues change, and some services split seasons between subscription, rental and purchase options. A quick check can save you from discovering that the episode you expected to start is only available to buy. The guide below stays spoiler-light and gives you the setup, central relationships and the reasons each series lands in its position.
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10. The Bear
Carmy Berzatto returns to Chicago after his brother Michael’s death and inherits a failing Italian beef shop. He wants to turn it into a serious restaurant, but debt, grief, old habits and a volatile crew keep getting in the way. His sister Sugar worries about the family; Richie resists Carmy’s authority; and young chef Sydney sees a chance to build something better. Each service puts the business at risk, while every disagreement brings private loss into the kitchen.
Jeremy Allen White plays Carmy as a chef who can control a plate more easily than his own panic. Ayo Edebiri gives Sydney her own ambition and standards, so the partnership is not simply about Carmy rescuing the restaurant. The compressed editing and clamour of the kitchen make the work feel physical. Beneath the shouting, the series is about learning how to share responsibility after grief has made everyone defensive.
Why it ranks here: It opens the list because its workplace writing and family tension are excellent, but its restaurant scale and frantic style are less directly about corporate power than the titles above it.
Who should watch it: Choose it for high-pressure workplace drama and an ensemble that becomes a chosen family.
Where to watch: UK availability changes, so check the current JustWatch UK listing before you press play.
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9. Veep
Selina Meyer is a vice president trying to turn the office into a launchpad for greater political power. Her staff includes loyal but anxious Gary, ambitious Dan, cynical Amy and socially oblivious Jonah. Their daily work means reacting to polls, press disasters and shifting alliances while Selina’s ambitions keep changing the plan. The story’s conflict is less about policy than access: everyone wants to stay close to the person who might soon become more powerful.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus makes Selina’s insecurity funny because she can turn confidence on and off like a podium microphone. The staff are not interchangeable joke machines: their rivalries and career calculations give the series a running political plot. Its rapid dialogue has the satisfying sharpness of Succession, while the White House setting lets every small embarrassment carry public consequences.
Why it ranks here: It beats The Bear for the central theme of ambition inside an institution, but ranks below the richer family and business sagas because its comic rhythm is more consistent than its emotional range.
Who should watch it: Watch if you want workplace satire, political manoeuvring and fast dialogue.
Where to watch: UK availability changes, so check the current JustWatch UK listing before you press play.
8. Arrested Development
When the Bluth family’s property empire collapses after patriarch George Sr. is arrested, responsible son Michael tries to keep the business and family afloat. His son George Michael needs stability, while Michael’s siblings Gob, Lindsay and Buster bring their own schemes and dependencies. The family is wealthy enough to expect rescue, but too self-absorbed to cooperate for long. The central joke is that Michael keeps trying to be the adult in a family that treats every crisis as someone else’s problem.
Jason Bateman gives Michael a useful straight-man perspective, and the ensemble’s escalating misunderstandings make the family’s business collapse feel like a machine that keeps producing new trouble. The comedy is densely plotted, with visual callbacks and jokes that reward a rewatch. It is lighter and more openly absurd than Succession, but both shows know how inherited money can preserve childish behaviour.
Why it ranks here: It sits below Veep because its family business premise fits the Roys, but it relies more on sitcom construction and less on evolving dramatic consequences. It outranks the entries below through its exceptional joke density and central family dynamic.
Who should watch it: Pick it for a fast, rewatchable ensemble comedy about wealthy relatives.
Where to watch: UK availability changes, so check the current JustWatch UK listing before you press play.
Before #7
7. House of Cards
Frank Underwood is a calculating Democratic congressman who expects a senior appointment after helping his party win power. When that promise is withdrawn, he and his wife Claire begin pursuing influence through political pressure, carefully chosen allies and public image. Frank’s conflict is to convert resentment into leverage without exposing how much he wants the presidency; Claire is a partner with her own appetite for control rather than a passive accomplice.
Kevin Spacey’s controlled performance makes even a quiet conversation feel like a negotiation, while Robin Wright gives Claire a formidable presence of her own. The series turns Washington into a workplace drama, where loyalty is temporary and public morality can be managed. It offers a less comic, more melodramatic version of Succession’s fixation on people who treat institutions as tools.
Why it ranks here: It lands at #7 because its political ambition and couple dynamic are compelling, but its plotting can become more schematic than the character-led shows above it. Its stakes still feel sharper than those of the sitcoms below.
Who should watch it: Best for viewers who want political strategy, power couples and a darker tone.
Where to watch: UK availability changes, so check the current JustWatch UK listing before you press play.
6. Yellowstone
John Dutton runs a huge Montana ranch that sits beside a growing town, an Indigenous reservation and land coveted by developers. His children—Beth, Jamie and Kayce—are pulled into conflicts over the family property, while each carries a different relationship to their father’s authority. John wants to preserve the ranch and the family’s control of it; that goal brings them into recurring conflict with outsiders and with one another.
The scale of the ranch gives this family drama a strong visual identity, but the real engine is inheritance: who gets to decide what the land means and who has the right to protect it. Kevin Costner anchors John with a mix of authority and fatigue. The show uses western action and melodrama where Succession uses boardrooms, yet both understand that family loyalty can become a form of coercion.
Why it ranks here: It beats House of Cards on the family-business theme and sense of place, but stops short of the top five because its plotting is more melodramatic and its corporate satire less precise.
Who should watch it: Try it for a sprawling family saga, land conflict and western atmosphere.
Where to watch: UK availability changes, so check the current JustWatch UK listing before you press play.
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5. The Morning Show
Alex Levy is a celebrated anchor at the UBA morning program whose professional world changes after co-host Mitch Kessler is dismissed following misconduct allegations. Producer Cory Ellison sees an opportunity to reshape the network, while reporter Bradley Jackson is brought into the show and unsettles its careful image. Alex wants to protect her position and the programme; Bradley wants to report with independence; UBA must reckon with the systems that kept its old culture in place.
Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon and Billy Crudup give the newsroom story competing centers of gravity. The show is interested in how reputations are managed, how colleagues bargain for influence and how a media company turns crisis into both threat and opportunity. It can be heightened, but its best scenes understand that a broadcast’s polished surface depends on arguments happening just off camera.
Why it ranks here: It makes the top five because it is a media-industry drama with a sharp ensemble and a clear institutional conflict. It sits below Mad Men and the financial dramas because its tone is less controlled across seasons.
Who should watch it: Choose it for newsroom politics, media power and ambitious leads.
Where to watch: UK availability changes, so check the current JustWatch UK listing before you press play.
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4. Mad Men
Don Draper is the mysterious creative director of Sterling Cooper, an advertising agency on Madison Avenue in the early 1960s. At work he sells images of success and desire; at home he maintains a private life built on omissions. Copywriter Peggy Olson arrives with ambitions that the office does not expect from a young woman, while Joan Holloway understands the agency’s power structure better than most men in it. The ongoing conflict is how these people pursue identity and influence inside a culture that keeps defining their roles for them.
The series makes office life feel like a changing social world rather than a collection of campaigns. Jon Hamm gives Don a polished surface with a restless void beneath it; Elisabeth Moss traces Peggy’s growth through work she has to claim for herself. The production design is precise, but the strongest detail is conversational: a pitch can reveal the lie someone tells about themselves.
Why it ranks here: It ranks fourth because its character writing and period setting are richer than the shows below it, though its deliberate pace and less explosive cliffhangers keep it behind the top three for a post-Succession binge.
Who should watch it: Watch for slow-burn prestige TV, complicated careers and beautifully observed dialogue.
Where to watch: UK availability changes, so check the current JustWatch UK listing before you press play.
After #3
3. The White Lotus
The White Lotus follows guests and staff at an expensive resort, with each season moving to a new holiday setting and a new ensemble. Vacationers arrive expecting privacy and service; employees have their own needs, ambitions and limits. Their interactions bring money, class, sex, grief and status into the open, while an early hint of death gives the season a mystery-shaped frame. The character groups change, but the core conflict stays recognizable: people with unequal power share a supposedly relaxing space.
Mike White’s writing lets awkwardness do as much work as plot. A small complaint about a room or a careless comment can expose a guest’s assumptions and a staff member’s constrained choices. The performances create an ensemble where everyone seems to be hiding a second motive. Its resort setting is a visual pleasure with a sharp edge; paradise looks different depending on who is paid to maintain it.
Why it ranks here: It reaches the top three because it turns wealth and entitlement into precise, funny character drama. It ranks below Billions and Industry only because its anthology structure offers less continuous corporate momentum.
Who should watch it: Pick it for class satire, beautiful locations and an excellent ensemble.
Where to watch: UK availability changes, so check the current JustWatch UK listing before you press play.
2. Billions
Bobby Axelrod is a billionaire hedge-fund manager whose success attracts the attention of U.S. attorney Chuck Rhoades. Chuck wants to prosecute financial misconduct, while Bobby’s team—including strategist Wendy Rhoades, who is also Chuck’s wife—understands that information and loyalty can move markets. The conflict becomes personal because both men see the other as a rival to defeat, and Wendy is caught between a professional relationship and a marriage that gives her unusual access to both sides.
Damian Lewis and Paul Giamatti bring force to the clash, while Maggie Siff gives Wendy a role that is not reducible to a prize between powerful men. The series makes finance legible through negotiation, research and the pressure of winning. It can lean into its own spectacle, but the changing alliances keep the central feud moving.
Why it ranks here: It earns #2 because its wealth-versus-law conflict is the most direct match for Succession’s appetite for power games, and it has a strong cast around the rivalry. Industry takes #1 because its younger characters, class pressures and financial workplace are more intimate and consistently observed.
Who should watch it: Watch if you want hedge-fund power plays, legal strategy and a long-running rivalry.
Where to watch: UK availability changes, so check the current JustWatch UK listing before you press play.
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1. Industry
Harper Stern arrives in London as a graduate recruit at Pierpoint, an investment bank where new hires compete for a permanent place. She is sharp and ambitious, but the job tests her confidence, ethics and ability to manage the people who control access to deals. Yasmin Kara-Hanani navigates privilege and expectation; Robert Spearing tries to prove he belongs; managers Eric Tao and others turn mentorship into another kind of leverage. Their early careers become a contest over money, status and survival.
Industry is the closest match for Succession’s ability to make professional ambition feel personal. Its young bankers do not inherit a media empire; they have to earn a place in a system that measures them constantly. Myha’la Herrold makes Harper both resourceful and difficult to trust, while the ensemble gives each character a distinct relationship to class and power. The trading floor supplies pace, but the show’s lasting interest is what its characters sacrifice to stay there.
Why it ranks here: Why it ranks #1: it beats Billions by making finance feel lived-in and socially specific, and it beats the broader family and political dramas by keeping workplace hierarchy at the center of character change. Its performances, tension and contemporary setting give Succession fans the closest ongoing rush of watching one choice rearrange an entire career.
Who should watch it: Best for viewers seeking a sharp financial workplace drama, messy loyalties and prestige television with real bite.
Where to watch: UK availability changes, so check the current JustWatch UK listing before you press play.
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Conclusion
The strongest shows on this list understand that power is personal. A career, family business, political office or restaurant can become a place where people bargain for love and respect as much as money. That is why Succession fans often enjoy series with sharp dialogue, shifting alliances and characters who cannot separate ambition from identity.
For finance and corporate life, try Industry or Billions. For family rivalry, The Bear, Yellowstone or Arrested Development offer very different temperatures. For satire, Veep and The White Lotus turn status into comedy. Our #1 wins because its world, characters, performances and ongoing conflict make the best overall match for the specific reason behind this watchlist. Tell us what you would move up or down, and which show we missed.
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Before FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
What should I watch after Succession?
Start with the #1 pick if you want the closest match to this article’s ranking criteria. Industry is a strong choice for finance and workplace hierarchy; The White Lotus is better for class satire; Veep suits viewers who mainly miss the sharp jokes. The rest of the list gives you more specific options by mood. For the quickest decision, match the show to the element you miss most: family conflict, workplace manoeuvring, class satire or rapid dialogue. The #1 choice is the strongest overall fit for this list, while the other entries serve narrower moods.
Which show is most similar to Succession?
The closest match depends on what you liked. Industry shares the financial setting and ruthless career ladder. Billions focuses on wealth and legal power. For family rivalry and social satire, Yellowstone, Arrested Development or The White Lotus offer different versions of that tension. Similarity is a matter of emphasis. A shared subject does not guarantee a shared tone, so look at the premise and cast dynamics in the entry before choosing. That will tell you whether you want a close thematic cousin or a change of pace.
Are these ranked from worst to best?
Yes. The list follows the titles in the order you supplied. Your first title remains #1 and appears last in the countdown; the tenth title begins at #10. Each entry includes a reason for its exact position. The countdown begins with your #10 selection and ends with your #1. We explain the trade-offs at each position, including when a title is excellent in its own right but less aligned with the core theme of this particular list.
Where can I stream these shows in the UK?
Streaming rights vary by title, season and subscription. Each ranked entry links to a JustWatch UK search where you can check the current subscription, rental and purchase options before watching. The linked JustWatch UK search is the most practical starting point for current options. Check the exact season and format, since a service may offer only part of a series or list it for digital rental rather than as part of a subscription.
Which show is best for a quick binge?
Limited series and short seasons are easiest to finish quickly. Check the JustWatch UK page linked in each entry for season availability and current providers. If you want a longer character journey, choose one of the multi-season dramas. A shorter run can make a show easier to finish, but the best quick binge also needs a clear story engine. Use the premise notes to decide whether you want a contained mystery, a single workplace season or a longer ensemble you can spend time with.
Which show has the strongest workplace drama?
Industry and Billions focus on finance; The Morning Show centres on a broadcast newsroom; The Bear puts its crew in a restaurant kitchen. House of Lies and Veep use workplace politics for comedy. The strongest choice depends on whether you want realistic professional pressure, comic office politics or relationships that spill from work into family life. The article points out those distinctions so you can select the workplace rather than just the genre label.
Are these recommendations spoiler-free?
The descriptions cover each show’s starting situation and ongoing conflict without revealing major endings. They may mention an early inciting event needed to explain the premise, but avoid late-season twists. We include the setup and early conflict because readers need enough context to decide whether a show is for them. Later turns, finales and major character outcomes are left out, so you can start with the central question still intact.
Can I watch these without having seen Succession?
Yes. The shows work on their own. The article explains the main characters and conflicts, and the comparisons are there to help you decide what to watch next. Each recommendation introduces its own characters and story, so no previous knowledge of Succession is required. The comparisons refer to themes and tone only; they do not depend on having memorised the Roy family’s business history.
Which show has the best ensemble cast?
That depends on whether you prefer drama or comedy. The White Lotus, Industry, The Bear and Veep each build a distinctive group whose characters want different things. The entries explain the cast dynamics before recommending them. Look for the entry whose supporting characters have goals beyond reacting to the lead. A strong ensemble gives each conversation more than one agenda, which is one of the qualities Succession fans often want from a new drama or comedy.
Why does the #1 show rank above the others?
The top spot goes to the show that best combines a clear premise, memorable performances, sustained character conflict, entertainment value and a close fit with the reason a Succession fan is searching for another series. The top-ranked title wins because its premise, character dynamics and tone line up most closely with the purpose of this watchlist. The comparison also accounts for what it does better than the other nine choices, while recognising the different strengths that make those shows worthwhile.
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