Danny McBride may be the reigning national avatar of a very specific sort of white male frustration. On his HBO series “Eastbound & Down” and “Vice Principals” — both of which he co-created wit…
Danny McBride may be the reigning national avatar of a very specific sort of white male frustration. On hisseries “Eastbound & Down” and “Vice Principals” — both of which he co-created with Jody Hill and starred in — he brought life to a pair of downwardly mobile fellows who had already wrung every bit of satisfaction they might get out of the minor authority they enjoyed.
In “Succession,” the unable-to-launch kids of privilege make a sharp, if sometimes overdrawn, point about the crippling nature of family fortune. The Gemstones get up to more high jinks, but the baroqueness of their particular predicament tends to restrict us from getting to know them well. That Goodman’s Eli has made his name from his unknowability, and even to his family is more persona than person, is an elegant character beat, if one that keeps us, too, from yet greater understanding.
“Gemstones” can be credited with showing us more of what McBride can do; though his previous characters had their appeal and their reasons for behaving as they did, they lacked Jesse Gemstone’s pathos. But the conceit also gives the series disappointingly little to say.
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