The hateful characters in the watchable series Succession (and a note on The Sopranos)

The 10-part HBO series Succession, a portrait of a dysfunctional uber-wealthy family based loosely, or maybe not so loosely, on the Murdoch clan and its right-wing media empire, will hold anyone's interest start to finish as it's well-written and well acted by the large ensemble, each family member w/ distinct personalities and neuroses. At one point they're called a "nest of vipers," which is apt: There's not a moment that we sympathize in the least w/ any of the horrendous characters in this family, the Roys. Top to bottom - the malevolent patriarch, his scheming 2nd wife, the 4 children constantly at each other's throats, the various suppliants and egocentric paramours, all are horrible - in their scheming, their treatment of anyone they can boss around or control w $, this vulgar behavior, their crude language (and here I offer a note to the writers: I have never seen a show that so frequently uses the adj. "fucking" or various other forms of the verb/adj; this tic does not make your writing stronger or more powerful, quite the opposite. One ex.: It's better if the father says to eldest son: You're a nobody, as opposed to You're a fucking nobody - the former is devastating in its simplicity, the latter just crude and bullying). So, yes, fun in a guilty way to watch this horror show and to hate everyone in it - but I note that over the past few weeks I've been watching Season 1 of The Sopranos, which is so great in large part because the mob characters are stone cold killers and brutal assailants, yet we also see them as tender, thoughtful, devoted to family and to their kids, and it's this broadening of character in such surprising ways, and the recognition of the pain these characters live w/ trying to justify their lives and criminal behavior that keep is involved and make us care about these characters. We feel that, if we knew him, we'd like Tony (et al.); with the Roys, we feel that wed never know them, they'd never know us, and if our lives crossed we would hate them.