Power games, wealth management and a dysfunctional family looking for the heir to their media empire.

“succession”, his award-winning TV series Jesse Armstrong balancing between black comedy and drama, and airing on HBO from 2018 to 2023, it offers a thoughtful critique of today’s corporate world and the human forces that shape it.

The series competently explores the interaction of politics, media and business. By revealing the dark underside of privilege and wealth, Legacy encourages viewers to question the morality of those in power and the systems that ensure their rule. But the elements that kept viewers interested over the years were smart dialogue, addictive acting, and a well-written screenplay overall.

As the episodes progressed, the writers delved deeper into the motives, fears, and desires of Roy’s family members. Each with its own morally ambiguous and multidimensional character – and the conflicts between them even more involved viewers in the development of history. In fact, on some occasions viewers could identify with aspects of Logan, Kendall, Siobhan, Roman, Connor.

In addition to gaining more and more rabid fans, the series at the same time constantly “starred” in advertising. Reviews, summaries, cast interviews, analytic podcasts and, of course, light spoilers have flooded the print and online media, as it has more or less always been with cable television.

There is no doubt that such a successful television project will receive recognition and, consequently, wide coverage in the media. But this one was superimposed fully proportional with the interest of readers who, with the end of each episode or the entire season, flocked to their favorite sites and social networks to read about it?

The answer to this question can be given by new data from specialized analytical companies. One of them is memowhich uses artificial intelligence to track the progress of articles on the Internet, its findings on “Continuity” were republished. Axios website. This company studied and compared coverage and readability (number of unique visitors to an online article in the first seven days after publication) of the last episode of The Heir with other popular television series of the period 2022-2023 (Yellowstone – Paramount, NCIS, FBI, Young Sheldon – CBS and Chicago Fire – NBC).

The media obsession with “Heritage” attracted excessive coverage out of proportion to reader interest.
While there is no doubt that The Legacy was a hit, the coverage was likely driven more by the media’s obsession with its own industry than by consumer interests https://t.co/NHWTNI3qzX.

— Sarah Fisher (@sarafischer) June 6, 2023

According to the study, “Legacy” received significantly more media coverage than any of the above series. However, it had the second lowest average readability of articles from the series included in the analysis.

The graph provided by Axios corresponds to the number of articles in the average readership. There were 1,000 articles written for Heritage, which on average were read 17,000 times, which means that a lot was written, but comparatively little was read. There were 173 articles written for the NCIS series that averaged 36,800 reads. There were 66 articles written about Chicago Fire, which averaged 37,800 reads. The 56 “Young Sheldon” articles were read 65,300 times and the 41 “FBI” articles were read 11,200 times.

While there have been no recent figures for the hugely popular Yellowstone, and all four other comparison series had season finales rather than full series finales such as Legacies, this data suggests that the show’s heavy media coverage was out of proportion to the extent of its readership. . interest and that media coverage may not always accurately reflect public demand; but be bigger due to the media’s fascination with their own industry not real consumer demand.