The trend is by no means confined to the screen – interestingly, the Succession scripts have recently been published in book form by literary publisher Faber. 12 of the best books of the year so far Why the super-rich love understated dressing In fact, our hunger for such stories seems insatiable. To what extent these are firing shots in some new class war is highly debatable, but one thing is for sure: we absolutely eat up content about the rich. Think Succession (reaching its finale this weekend), Parasite, The Menu, Glass Onion, The White Lotus and Triangle of Sadness. The slogan "eat the rich", apocryphally attributed to Jean-Jacques Rousseau during the French Revolution, has seen quite the resurgence in recent years – becoming a rallying hashtag on TikTok and twitter, and used to describe a wave of films and TV shows that gleefully enact revenge on the super-wealthy.
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