Don't Miss These 10 Perfectly Hilarious Drama Series if You Loved Succession

Succession redefined prestige drama, blending corporate warfare with scathing wit, family dysfunction and Shakespearean betrayal. Its world of obscene wealth, power games and emotionally stunted heirs left a void when it ended. For fans craving more of that sharp dialogue, slow-burn tension and pitch-black humor, there are plenty of other series.

They deliver similarly addictive blends of comedy and drama, pulling back the curtain on privilege, ambition and moral decay. Some lean heavier into the satire, others into the emotional breakdowns, but all echo Succession' s unique tone. Whether set in boardrooms, mansions, or PR disasters, these shows feature flawed characters navigating high-stakes chaos with razor-sharp dialogue and not-so-hidden emotional wounds.

Veep Delivers Succession-Level Satire

Selina Meyer's Political Climb Is Petty, Profane and Brutally Hilarious

Before Succession , Veep set the gold standard for political dysfunction and venomous dialogue. Julia Louis-Dreyfus stars as Selina Meyer, a Vice President whose ambition far outpaces her competence. She is surrounded by a backstabbing staff. Every episode is a masterclass in chaos, as personal agendas constantly derail public service. What makes Veep so Succession -adjacent is its unrelenting cynicism and its cast of wildly selfish characters who weaponize language as much as power.

The insults are barbed, and the stakes are often absurd. Similarly, the emotional damage is both hilarious and depressingly real. Much like the Roys, Selina and her team constantly fight for scraps of relevance while betraying each other at every turn. Though more overtly comedic than Succession , Veep shares political maneuvering and characters who treat relationships as currency.

Bad Sisters Showcases Familial Chaos

A Darkly Humorous Take on Loyalty and Betrayal

Bad Sisters revolves around a tight-knit group of siblings who find themselves bound by shared secrets. To protect their family legacy, the sisters deploy cunning schemes reminiscent of corporate power plays. Each decision carries weight, and every betrayal hits hard, drawing stark parallels to Succession's maneuverings. What makes Bad Sisters so irresistible is the chemistry between the siblings.

Their bickering, devotion and resentment feels authentic. It is about women who have had enough, and the lengths they'll go to fix what the world refuses to. Like Succession , it's about complicated family bonds and the damage people inflict on each other in the name of love. The series balances humor with high stakes, as the sisters navigate relationships fraught with conflict and ambition. Their interactions crackle with tension, rich in dark comedy and meticulously layered drama.

Loot Mixes Billionaire Meltdowns with Comic Bite

A Tech Heiress Spirals and Drags Her Wealth With Her

Loot follows Molly Novak (Maya Rudolph), a recently divorced billionaire who is trying to find meaning and save face after being publicly humiliated by her tech mogul husband. With absurd wealth and zero self-awareness, she stumbles into running her charitable foundation. There, her cluelessness clashes hilariously with her well-meaning and underpaid staff.

Loot and Succession share the moral disorientation of the ultra-rich. Molly's arc is one of slow self-realization, delivered through lavish absurdity, accidental cruelty and moments of biting social satire. The show skewers privilege, image management and corporate hypocrisy. Though lighter in tone, Loot paints a similar portrait of money as both a shield and a prison. Molly's wealth insulates her from reality yet traps her in a world of shallow relationships and false importance.

Arrested Development Perfects the Dysfunctional Family

A Crumbling Empire, A Selfish Heir and Chaos

Arrested Development tells the story of a once wealthy family. The Bluths are struggling to keep their company and each other from total collapse. After patriarch George Bluth Sr. (Jeffrey Tambor) is arrested, son Michael (Jason Bateman) reluctantly tries to hold the family together. What follows is a glorious mess of backstabbing, self-deception and some of the most quotable lines in TV history. While broader and more absurd than Succession , both shows deliver emotionally stunted heirs, toxic loyalty and the painful comedy of ambition colliding with incompetence .

The show satirizes wealth and entitlement with precision, never letting its characters off the hook for their delusions. Every Bluth is their own brand of disaster, and much like the Roys, they're endlessly watchable in their dysfunction. For all its slapstick energy, Arrested Development is a brilliant, layered portrait of a family that continually hurts itself.

House of Lies Turns Corporate Spin Into a Darkly Addictive Hustle

A Team of Consultants Lies for a Living

House of Lies follows Marty Kaan (Don Cheadle), a slick management consultant who makes millions by telling corporations what they want. Meanwhile, he privately dismantles everything and everyone in his path. With a fast-talking team of equally ruthless misfits, Marty manipulates boardrooms by day and tries to navigate his chaotic personal life by night.

Both House of Lies and Succession blend moral rot, sharp dialogue and charismatic antiheroes. Marty, like Logan Roy (Brian Cox), thrives in a broken system he's too smart to believe in. However, they are too greedy to escape it. The show doesn't flinch from its characters' worst impulses, and it knows how to make them entertaining even as they spiral out of control. It's flashy, cynical, and darkly humorous, with moments of genuine emotional weight hidden beneath the surface.

Industry Channels Ruthlessness Through a Financial Lens

Young Bankers Claw Their Way to Survival in London's Most Cutthroat Bank

Industry dives headfirst into the brutal world of high finance, where prestige, and performance determine who thrives and who's discarded. It is set in the London office of the fictional investment bank Pierpoint & Co. The show follows a group of ambitious twenty-somethings navigating impossible workloads, toxic mentorship and a system designed to chew them up. Much like Succession , Industry thrives on power dynamics, verbal warfare, and emotionally damaged characters pretending they're fine.

The dialogue is fast, the stakes are high, and the betrayals come swift and subtle. Everyone's angling for a leg up, even if it means throwing a friend or themselves under the bus. It's slick, cynical, and deeply intimate in its portrayal of ambition. With its mix of boardroom tension and personal unraveling, Industry feels like Succession' s younger, hungrier cousin: sharper suits, less money and just as much emotional carnage.

Yellowjackets Twists Trauma Into Something Ferocious

Survival Scars Run Deep in this Sharp, Time-Jumping Character Study

Yellowjackets centers on a high school girls' soccer team whose plane crashes in the wilderness and the adult women still living with the aftermath decades later. It flips between timelines to show both their primal descent into brutality as teens and their haunted, unstable adult lives filled with secrets, lies and paranoia. What sets it apart is how it balances psychological horror with biting wit and raw emotion.

These women are shaped by trauma and determined to keep surviving. Despite its cruelty, it is strangely funny, deeply human and full of twisted charm. Like Succession , it's all about what happens when damaged people cling to control of others, the narrative and themselves. The stakes are personal, the alliances are fragile, and no one ever really moves on.

The Righteous Gemstones Turns Faith and Family into Greedy Chaos

A Dynasty Unravels in a Mess of Pride, Power and Pettiness

The Righteous Gemstones follows the Gemstone family , a dynasty of wildly wealthy televangelists who preach virtue onstage and practice vice off of it. Led by patriarch Eli (John Goodman) and his over-the-top children, Jesse (Danny McBride), Judy (Edi Patterson), and Kelvin (Adam DeVine), the family clings to power while sabotaging each other at every turn.

Underneath the holy branding is a mess of jealousy, blackmail, sex scandals and emotional immaturity. What makes the show so gripping isn't just the satire; it's how much heart it hides under the bling and bluster. These characters are ridiculous and often terrible, but they're trying badly to matter to each other. Much like Succession , Gemstones explores how money and legacy twist family bonds into knots.

Billions Delivers High-Stakes Power Plays

Billionaires and Prosecutors Battle for Dominance in a World Built on Ego

Billions thrives on the same adrenaline that pulses through Succession . Set in the intersecting worlds of hedge funds and federal law enforcement, the show pits Bobby Axelrod (Damian Lewis), a ruthless billionaire investor, against Chuck Rhoades (Paul Giamatti), a shrewd U.S. Attorney determined to bring him down. Both men are brilliant, manipulative and completely consumed by the desire to win at any cost.

Like Succession , Billions is powered by verbal combat, strategic betrayals, and the kind of wealth that insulates its characters from the consequences of their worst behavior. Every alliance is as fragile as the next market swing. It is less about family than ideology and power, but the emotional pettiness and psychological gamesmanship are pure Succession . With its moral ambiguity and razor-wire tension, Billions scratches the same itch for high-functioning dysfunction and ambition without limits.

The White Lotus Exposes the Rot Beneath Luxury

Wealth, Privilege and Passive-Aggressive Warfare Play Out on Vacation

The White Lotus traps its wealthy characters in a resort and lets their worst instincts surface. Each season follows a different group of entitled guests and the staff serving them as they spiral into jealousy, betrayal and existential dread beneath a facade of leisure. Like Succession , this is a show about what money can't fix: emotional emptiness, fractured families, and self-destruction.

The dialogue is razor-sharp, the satire biting and the class tension simmers until it explodes. There is always a body by the end, but the real thrill is watching the slow, anxious unraveling of these flawed, morally hollow elites. The White Lotus trades corporate boardrooms for beachfront suites, but it portrays shifting alliances and characters consumed by self-interest.