What are people?” Logan Roy (Brian Cox) asks, and then answers it himself: “Economic units. I’m 100 feet tall. They’re pygmies. But together we make a market!” Meaning, he elaborates, everything about humans merely form a market—marriage market, job market, money market, market of ideas....

As OTS (over-the-shoulder), one-on-one conversations go, the above-mentioned, in the third episode of the final/fourth season of Jesse Armstrong’s HBO series, Succession, might well rank among the greatest such monologue on screen.