Imagine Succession, the gold standard for snarled PowerPoint warfare, boardroom backstabs, and siblings who treat Sunday dinner like a hostage negotiation. Now imagine if Succession was real life, or even better, if Succession borrowed from a real dynasty. In that world, Rupert Murdoch is the Logan Roy of reality: a media titan who built an empire the way some of us build Lego sets, meticulously, obsessively, and with constant chaos sprinkled in. 

And now Netflix is rolling out a documentary that promises to peel back the curtain on the real Fox royalty and the family drama that reads like a pitch meeting for a fourth Succession season.

The first trailer for Dynasty: The Murdochs, has been released by Netflix and it looks like a riveting docuseries chronicling the behind-the-scenes battle to succeed media mogul Rupert Murdoch at the head of a sprawling media empire. At the helm of the series is acclaimed documentarian Liz Garbus, a two-time Academy Award nominee whose work has consistently mined deep emotional and political waters.

Her Nina Simone profile What Happened, Miss Simone? earned Oscar attention in 2016 and cemented her reputation for narrative depth and archival prowess. 

The four-part documentary draws on thousands of pages of previously unseen documents, emails and text messages to explore the stakes and tensions that have defined the Murdoch family’s legacy. The trailers hint at jaw-dropping access to documents and private communications most of the world has never seen, and the vibe is very “we went to the vault, we read the angry emails, and we’re bringing them to your living room.”

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As part of Netflix’s giant documentary slate, this docuseries is succession planning as psychological warfare.

Dynasty: The Murdochs digs into the personal and professional battles within one of the most powerful media families on the planet. At its center is Rupert Murdoch, who has spent eight decades building an empire that reaches from newspapers to cable news and beyond. But empire building was only step one; the real drama has always been who gets the keys.

The series dwells on tensions between Murdoch and his chosen heir Lachlan Murdoch, and his other adult children, James Murdoch, Elisabeth Murdoch and Prudence Murdoch, using internal communications and interviews with journalists and media insiders to unpack a saga that feels like boardroom chess set on fire. Across four episodes, the documentary traces Murdoch’s rise from Australian newspaper heir to architect of a global media conglomerate that includes Fox News. 

In a media landscape crowded with big titles, this docuseries promises to be a standout, sharp, revelatory, and packed with the kind of insider intrigue that Succession fans have been starving for.

What do you think? Will the real Murdoch dynasty outdo fiction? Drop your thoughts!