Jesse Armstrong

The complete, authorised scripts, including deleted scenes, of the multiple award-winning Succession.** Winner of thirteen Emmys, five Golden Globes, three BAFTAs and a Grammy. **With an exclusive introduction from creator Jesse Armstrong.'The most thrilling and beautifully obscene TV there is.' Guardian'Extraordinarily entertaining and incisive.' Empire'One of the most relentlessly paced shows on television.' Rolling StoneEverything I've done in my life is for my children.When Logan Roy, the head of one of the world's largest media and entertainment conglomerates, decides to retire, each of his four grown children follows a personal agenda that doesn't always sync with those of their siblings -- or their father.Collected here for the first time, the complete scripts of Succession: Season One feature unseen extra material, including deleted scenes, alternative dialogue and character directions. They reveal a unique insight into the writing, creation and development of a TV sensation and a screen-writing masterpiece.'Monstrous, near-Shakespearean perfection.' New Statesman

The Complete Scripts

Succession – Season One

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Can son trust father? The father clearly wants this and the son wants to be liked, to demonstrate his trust—

Tom, it's tough to have to tell you this way but I'm in a sexual relationship with your mother. And she talks in her sleep.

ROMAN: I thought you weren't talking to me?

ROMAN: Oh very much the fuck. Very much the fuck indeed. The big man's breaking down and everyone's invited!

SHIV: Bullshit. What's he doing? Do you think he's going to kill us one by one like in an Agatha Christie novel?

i forgot if they cut this from the show but 😭

TOM: Yee-haw. I have never ridden a horse. Can you believe it?

TOM: Honey. You don’t need to apologize. I know it’s not true. 

TOM: I’m not a good guy. I’m not. (beat, looks at her) But I do love you. 

She looks at him. He looks at her. Should he trust her? She strokes his hair or touches his face. He thinks it should feel reassuring.

Logan and Kendall catch one another’s eye. 

It’s quite a thing, that smile. It seems to acknowledge everything that’s come before, and without denying it, says, ‘Ah, c’mon.’ Kendall is stuck trying to decode it and also feels that old familial tug. 

Succession – Season One quotes

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