How ‘Succession’ Helped Me Grieve the Loss of My Father

'Succession' is far from the only TV show to represent parental death ('Buffy' got there first). Here's why it's the most cathartic.

Just before my dad died last summer, before a two-week hospital stay that was supposed to cure him of a bacterial infection, I had been looking forward to a good old fashioned TV binge-watch.

Neil Gaiman's adaptation of his dark mythical masterpiece, The Sandman, was about to drop …