As a gay man I have been both an insider and an outsider in all-male domains. I know how they try to stomp out the feminine
Logan Roy is today’s King Lear in the HBO series Succession, turning his offspring against each other to pull up the drawbridge against threats to his reign. The Loudest Voice, Russell Crowe’s gargantuan embodiment of alleged sexual harasser and Fox News head, Roger Ailes, confronted us with the perpetrator’s point of view. Add Joker to the list, and the protagonists of 2019 are reprehensible and compelling to watch. The trend has made it to the stage too, with the recent global success of The Lehman Trilogy depicting the historic trading of moral values for towering stock worth.
The bravest provocation about this wave of storytelling is that the moral heart of the drama is so ambiguous, if not entirely absent. The first time a lead character airs a moral qualm in Succession is episode two of the second season. Cousin Greg hesitates at working for the fictional equivalent of Fox News. He is laughed at for having principles. Even when the show elicits empathy for Kendall Roy as he takes on his father, his objective is no storybook compulsion for the greater good. His core goal is greed and self-advancement.
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