With "Game of Thrones" now history, it seems as if HBO has no purpose anymore. Although "Last Week Tonight" is great and "Euphoria" is spectacular but on season hiatus, one might ask what reason is there to subscribe to HBO anymore?

I found myself asking these questions, as I caved in (after scouring endless illegal links for "Thrones") and legally subscribed to HBO Now. And lo and behold becomes this surprise series, "Succession."

The show follows the antics of the Roy siblings--Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Roman (Kieran Culkin), Siobhan (Sarah Snook), and Connor (Alan Ruck)--as they compete to "succeed" their near-retirement father Logan (Brian Cox), who is the head of Waystar Royco, a media conglomerate company.

Perhaps what makes this show so fascinating is that it plays on a major irony. We resort to fictional TV shows as a method to get away from the vitriolic reality we live in. And yet, "Succession" seems to be a caricature of that very reality. The Roys bear similar resemblances to the real-life Murdoch and Redstone media families, the owners of NewsCorp (Fox News) and Viacom (MTV, Nickelodeon, etc.), respectively.

It's also not to mention that each member of the Roy family is, in some capacity, a douchebag. One tries to sell the company behind Logan's back, one tries to foil an acquisition that can help modernize the company, and another becomes a political advisor to one of Logan's political adversaries. Just as you think you know how low the bar is for these people, the show proves you wrong at every turn of the plot.

No character in "Succession" is pure, and maybe that's the X-factor of this show. It satirizes the rich as the pretentious people that they are, who have no idea what everyday people go through.

It's not necessarily another recycled social commentary but perhaps a masterpiece of black comedy. Although "Succession" is technically fiction, we all know that there is an element of reality to it. And that irony makes good dark comedy.

Because of these reasons, "Succession" has the potential to become one of HBO's greatest post-"Game of Thrones" hits. It's a raunchy, suspenseful, and witty series that can hit too close to home for the politically informed.

New episodes of "Succession" premiere Sundays at 9/8c on HBO.