‘So deviously nasty’: These CEOs can’t get enough of Succession

Sally PattenBOSS editor

Updated Jan 10, 2022 – 9.33am, first published at 9.05am

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When it comes to bingeing, it is hard to go past parallels to the Murdoch family empire, infighting, corporate and personal largesse and backstabbing, all in the time of COVID-19.

Asked to nominate their favourite shows of 2021, Lark Distilling managing director Geoff Bainbridge and Arnie Selvarajah, boss of online broker Bell Direct, both nominated the HBO series Succession, which screens in Australia on Foxtel.

Sally Patten edits BOSS, and writes about workplace issues. She was the financial services editor and personal finance editor of the AFR, The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald. She edited business news for The Times of London. Connect with Sally on Twitter. Email Sally at spatten@afr.com