As his business hangs in the balance, his different sets of children are about to collide as they vie for control. When Stephen Richards passes suddenly, the family’s world comes crashing down. Riches follows the exploits of the stylish, privileged, super-successful Richards family. The series logline describes it as follows.
Series creator Abby Ajayi ( How to Get Away with Murder ) called the drama a “love letter to Black London,” adding that it has been “thrilling to create the Richards family and celebrate their opulence, ambition and immigrant grit.” (Or, to be frank, one that centers this many characters of color.) If the trailer is anything to go by, Riches will feature competing factions of beautiful people misbehaving, but it will also spotlight their unique experiences of navigating upper-class British life as a Black family. This twist is fascinating on multiple levels, not the least of which is that we rarely see a story like this told from this particular perspective. But there's one key distinction: the privileged, mega-rich family at its center is Black. Prime Video's upcoming drama The Richeshas drawn many comparisons to HBO's award-winning drama after all, its premise is pretty similar: A wealthy family patriarch experiences a medical emergency, and his children battle for control of the family's legendary cosmetics empire.
HBO's Successionis a blueprint for how to put together a traditional prestige drama: A Shakespearean family tragedy that focuses on betrayal and backstabbing, featuring A-list actors, generally unlikable characters (99% of whom are white), and a story set in the rarefied world of America's uber-elite, people who are so wealthy that no one even blinked when the show didn't bother to reference the COVID-19 pandemic during its most recent season because, at a certain income level, worldwide disasters cease to affect them.
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