The Roy family of Succession is the Mount Everest of family drama. Here, business and blood are indistinguishable. The father, Logan Roy, is a titan who views love as a test of combat. His children oscillate between desperate desire for his approval and violent attempts to usurp him.
Use "The Unsaid" to build tension—the elephant in the room is often your strongest character.
Put seven people around a table. Establish the seating order (who sits next to whom is a map of the family’s alliances). Limit the external action. The drama comes from a single sentence dropped into polite conversation: