People who tuned in said the episode conjured memories of the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections. “Watching election coverage, even for a fictional election, is triggering,” wrote one user .
“Me tuning into #Succession to be entertained but instead having to revisit the trauma of the past two elections & be confronted with the truth of the corrupt capitalist hellscape in which we live,” another person
tweeted . A pivotal plot point during the episode involved a firebombing of a Milwaukee polling center, which some swing state voters said particularly gave them anxiety. Wisconsin was called early by ATN, giving Mencken a big lead in the fictional race.
“as a Wisconsinite who stayed up until the wee hours in 2020 anxiously awaiting Milwaukee’s ballot count that episode of Succession was for real triggering,” one person tweeted . The episode was also a tough watch for journalists, some who shared memories of their own newsroom experiences on stressful election nights. headtopics.com
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