HBO’s Succession Marks the Launch of Summer Television: New at Reason

Once upon a time, the first of June was generally a time to turn off the three-channel tube, which was mostly a wasteland of reruns and summer replacements, and head outside to practice genocide against anthills with firecrackers or see the USA in your Chevrolet.

But those days have gone the way of hula-hoops and the Olsen twins. The broadcast networks are a deluge of high-concept (Halle Barre knocked up by a space alien!) summer popcorn shows. And cable increasingly sticks to business as usual, rolling out new series all summer long. Television critic Glenn Garvin takes a look at the first three to hit the airwaves in June.

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