![]() Tom is the first sacrificial lamb: He is humiliated on C-SPAN when Eavis exposes his correspondence with Greg (emails with the subject line “You can’t make a Tom-lette without breaking some Gr-eggs.” were sent 67 times in one night), and records of the files that disappeared after Thanksgiving. “DC” is an episode when the Roys make numerous decisions at the expense of those close, but not too close, to their inner circle. The last we hear of Roman and his legal crew (Karl and Logan’s lawyer) is when he’s being called into a room by guards. “Disgusting … hot.” Folks, this is what real love looks like on Succession. Before long, Roman is playing “Marry, Fuck, Kill” with members of Waystar’s executive board. Roman also has to do something that Logan personally asks for: try to secure the sovereign wealth money from the Middle East because that’s “no strings, fuckable, dry powder.” So, he hits up his soccer buddy Eduard Asgarov, and while there appears to be a mutual interest in the deal (remember: Asgarov’s dad has a “hose attached to the central bank”), Roman soon finds himself in the middle of a political upheaval in Azerbaijan and locked down in a hotel guarded by men with guns. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. And of course, will they get Shiv, the only woman in the group, to try to talk a victim out of testifying to Congress and giving a face and voice to the harassment issues at Waystar? As Shiv puts it, the survival of the company, her family’s company, depends on it, so yes, she has to do this.īy submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Notice. Will they throw Bill, former head of cruises and overall nice guy, under the bus? No question there’s a strategy for that, which Roman dubs “Kill Bill.” Will they offer better coverage for Senator Eavis on their network in exchange for more softball questions in the Senate hearings? You bet. Now, if you throw them against the ropes of the ring, give them a cut above their left eye, and keep hitting their weak side, any semblance of morality vanishes completely. The Roys already have questionable, to put it lightly, moral compasses. Theme of the Week: Using Other Human Beings As Shields It sounds like first she’ll have to make another tough decision. Maybe next week we’ll come full circle and Shiv will be back in the driver’s seat for CEO. It’s fitting that we end the episode back in a closed room with Logan and Shiv talking strategy, much like how this season began. Two weeks in a row now, Logan has had someone he was smitten with leave him. Logan, obviously, tells Rhea to fuck off, and she’s gone. I mean, I know you’re lying, but I still find you very plausible and appealing.” I feel seen. Soon, Rhea is backing out of the CEO gig in front of Logan, and, man, Holly Hunter’s last line is a walk-off home run that sums up the entire show: “It’s kind of a superpower isn’t it? If you can lie to someone like that to their face. But Logan’s daughter, who has, uh, gone through quite the political evolution since she worked for Eavis, shows that she’s just as monstrous as the rest of her relatives she convinces the woman not to testify and to take a settlement. ![]() Rhea balks, and tries to get Shiv to back out, too. ![]() Their job is to try to convince the woman not to speak. Soon, Rhea and Shiv are shipped to a nearby school where Eavis’s star witness for the case, a woman who was witness to Lester’s (Mo, Mo-lester) worst doings, works. In D.C., Rhea walks into the meeting room as everyone is arguing after Tom gets exposed on the stand by Senator Gil Eavis. Rhea set up Shiv, but she didn’t expect Logan to set her up. She’s defensive when she walks into the makeshift war room at Logan’s place and delivers a slew of complaints about how she feels like she got set up-“I feel like I’m your prophylactic, a rubber you’ve slipped on so I can protect you.” She knows that title be damned, she doesn’t have her hands on the steering wheel. Rhea is clearly still on the margins of Waystar’s inner circle, even though she’s set to be the next CEO. Gerri confirms and sets us off: “Buckle up folks, were gonna get an invite to the national latrine, see who wants to take a public dump.” Talk about a housewarming present for Waystar’s new landlord. While Logan tries to figure out how he can counterattack with messaging and money, Shiv delivers the message that prompts a primal yell from Logan: Senate hearings are coming. ![]()
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