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Does HBO’s ‘Succession’ Sell Mansions and Luxury Condos?
Rava Roy’s apartment in the Woolworth Building … Photo: HBO Plenty of movies and TV shows portray lives of extreme wealth, but few have done it as well as Succession, which manages to convey both the seductiveness of that world and the blasé entitlement, even boredom, of the global elite. The show’s production design lingers on the interiors of immense penthouses, Upper East Side townhouses, and Hamptons mansions, providing tantalizing glimpses of spaces that are, for the most part, ignored by the characters. Almost by accident, the show acts as a kind of de facto commercial for the real estate. So maybe it’s not so surprising that there are no…