“DC” is also a terrific episode of the show, in a second season that has run from strength to strength. I’ve had multiple critics tell me (and by “me” I mean Vox critic at large Emily VanDerWerff) they had to watch from between their fingers. (Check out Peep Show, the very funny Britcom he co-created, for a series that offers many kinds of jokes but is dynamite when it does cringe humor.) And “DC” is maybe the cringiest episode of Succession yet. Well, Jesse Armstrong - Succession’s creator and the writer of “DC,” the second season’s penultimate episode - is a Brit, and he’s a cringe comedian par excellence. The most notable example for American audiences is The Office, but if you’ve ever seen the original (and superior) British version of that show, then you know how good the Brits are at plumbing the depths of our most embarrassing selves for fun and giggles.
At its dark little heart, Succession has a lot in common with the cringe comedy, the show where humor comes from how much embarrassment the characters suffer and how little the universe seems to care that they are in pain.
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