HBO has the market cornered on powerful patriarchs thanks to Succession and The Righteous Gemstones

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Both HBO dramas running back-to-back on Sunday nights feature powerful patriarchs and their doofus children. "Succession has Logan Roy, a cranky old dinosaur and media titan who built his company from the ground up and is now struggling to decide what to do with it going forward," says Brian Grubb. "The Righteous Gemstones has Eli Gemstone, a big-time televangelist who built his church from the ground up and is now struggling to decide what to do with it going forward. Both of them cast long shadows. Both of them are powerful presences, the kind of born alphas who command every room they enter before they say a word. Both of them have dealt with insubordination via slap. Neither of them suffers fools for a second. They even have the same problems with their children."