Conner Reed is a writer and editor based in Brooklyn, New York.

05.25.2023

• Conner Reed

Succession Is Television’s Most Devastating Critique of the Ultrarich

Succession is heading toward its series finale, having settled into a portrait of how the ultrarich’s quest for limitless accumulation crowds out any semblance of humanity. The show is the most potent piece of class critique on TV in recent memory.

12.13.2022

• Conner Reed

The White Lotus’s Second Season Was a Triumph of Subtle but Biting Class Analysis

The second season of The White Lotus, HBO’s propulsive satire, had sex on the brain more than anything else. But it never lost sight of the razor-sharp class critique that also animated season one.