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‘Ren Faire’ review: The future of a Renaissance festival resembles a low-rent version of ‘Succession’

George Coulam, who goes by the nickname King George, is the founder and owner of the Texas Renaissance Festival, as seen in the documentary“ Ren Faire.”.

The greatest joke of HBO’s “Succession” was the inability of aging fictional CEO Logan Roy to name his replacement. Talk about the ultimate failure! But there are egomaniacal men who will go to their graves before envisioning a world that exists without them. That’s the animating through line in the three-part HBO documentary “Ren Faire” (which premiered last week and concludes Sunday) about the tenuous future of

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