Riches follows the exploits of the stylish, privileged, super-successful Richards family. When Stephen Richards (Hugh Quarshie) passes suddenly, the family’s world comes crashing down. As his business hangs in the balance, his different sets of children are about to collide as they vie for control. Riches is exactly what we’ve been waiting for. The new London-based series is the brainchild of writer and director Abby Ajayi and follows the inevitable implosion that takes place when the two families of a rich CEO go to war for control of his multi-million dollar company, and it’s really, really good. Riches has everything we’ve been asking for on television: scandal, mess, diasporic connections, and dark-skinned Black people front and center.
The power struggle between the Richards, a family with a relationship so strained that calling them mortal enemies might be a better description. The cause of this tension? Stephen Richards (Hugh Quarshie) and the piss poor execution of his duties as his family’s patriarch. On one side of the beef is Richard’s first family, his ex-wife Oyin (Jumoke Fashola), his oldest daughter Nina (Them’s Deborah Ayorinde), and his oldest son Simon (Emmanuel Imani), and they’re all pretty much estranged from him because he abandoned them to start anew with Claudia (Sarah Niles), the head of a new branch in the family tree that also includes their three kids Alesha (Adeyinka Akinrinade), Gus (Ola Orebiyi), and Wanda (Nneka Okoye).
As if things weren’t bad enough for the Richards family dynamic, Stephen’s sudden death thrusts them into war when his will names Nina and Simon as the new heads of Flair & Glory, the successful cosmetic company that he founded (with the help of their mother). At the helm of the company, Nina is forced to reckon with the many stresses of being a Black CEO in a very white industry — and the daddy issues she thought she’d tucked away all these years.
Riches | Official Trailer
