Watched Succession in which Brian Cox plays the aged leader of a corporate media empire and his family are all scheming and backstabbing each other to be the one to take over.
It would seem that taking control of these kinds of corporate machinery is mostly a question of convincing everyone else to back you, including the bankers. The whole setup is a confidence game. Whoever gets the most confidence gets the crown.
And yet why would any of them have confidence in any of the others at all, given that they all betray and scheme against each other all the time?
Engaging to watch them all as they plot and gather support but it's not the kinda life and I'd want to live at all, not the kind of friends I'd like to collect.
Can you even have love and friendship when the stakes are that high? Kings and courtiers don't have real relationships, only alliances and strategic affiliations.