Succession – Season One: The Complete Scripts

Jesse Armstrong

May 2023 · Faber & Faber

About this ebook

The complete, authorised scripts, including deleted scenes, of the multiple award-winning Succession .
** Winner of nineteen Emmys, nine 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 Stone
Everything 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

About the author

Jesse Armstrong is one of the UK's foremost comedy writers. Alongside Sam Bain, he has written eight series of the BAFTA Award-winning Peep Show, as well as Fresh Meat, Bad Sugar and, with Chris Morris, Four Lions. Jesse also co-wrote The Thick of It, and the Oscar-nominated In the Loop as well as working on episodes of Black Mirror and Veep. He is the creator of HBO drama series Succession. He has won a screenwriting Emmy for each of the four seasons of Succession.