And wow, I have always appreciated Kieran Culkin's comic acting, but in this sequence, as he realizes what he has done, his face is a work of art. Discovering a potential dynamic that he completely missed (in part because he was not looking for it see again his misogyny) unsettles him greatly. As we've discussed, the relationship between Roman and Gerri has been one of the few things that would matter to Logan that he didn't know about. So that's gross.Īaaaand then, just as the GoJo deal gets back on track after looking imperiled, a very bad (and funny) thing happens: One of those "d**k pics" he's been sending to Gerri goes astray, sent to Logan instead of Gerri. Roman's relationship with Gerri, which once seemed both playful and fully consensual, has evolved into something rather ugly now that she seems uninterested and he's refusing to take no for an answer. Let's also acknowledge how funny and casually misogynist it is that Logan lectures Roman about how a sexual relationship between him and Gerri is "disgusting" and she's "a million years old" and this will make Roman "a laughingstock," considering that it's certainly been implied (though not confirmed) that Logan is sleeping with Kerry, and that age difference is much greater. What Logan does here emphasizes exactly what Kendall is saying: Logan's lack of any conscience of any kind will always be an advantage it's almost impossible to overcome. Logan ends up not just tormenting Kendall about the dead caterer, but doing a sort of spelunking expedition looking for pain points in his troubled son - questioning Kendall's morality, his sexuality, his addiction, everything. That's true even if some part of him cares what Kendall is saying enough to resent the argument that it's his immorality and not his genius that's his competitive advantage. Logan is an emotional sadist and perhaps a sociopath (at least in the armchair sense). Logan reaches Peak Logan at the dinner with Kendall where, fearful that Kendall has poisoned his food, he has his grandchild eat some of it first. Not everybody appears every week, depending on how much they have to do. Or, if you will, how efficiently they are flying down the highway to hell. This season, each week, we are ranking members of the main cast of Succession based on how fast they are speeding toward moral ruin. We're going to talk about that at the end. Kendall winds up face-down in the pool.He wants to keep Kendall around to torment and punish him. Now, it seems he won't buy Kendall out even if Kendall wants out. Kendall calls a meeting with his father and offers to leave both the company and the family, just as last week's term sheet suggested.She also tries to wiggle her way back into the company's inner circle at Roman and Gerri's expense (the errant picture helps). Shiv has a discussion with her mother that throws her into a tailspin, which she soothes by being cruel to Tom.Just when it was going so well for the little weasel. To his surprise, Logan is into it, potentially - until Roman sends an explicit picture intended for Gerri to his dad, which undermines Logan's confidence in the deal, in Gerri, and in Roman. Roman runs off to try to keep Matsson on board, but he gets the impression that Matsson wants a merger, not an acquisition. Logan springs the GoJo deal with Matsson on Sandy 2 and Stewy, only to see Matsson's tweet about Macao destabilize the entire thing.Let's run through just some of the things that happen in this eventful episode: (She is played, incidentally, by the great Harriet Walter, who also plays Rebecca's mother on Ted Lasso.) The Roys are descending upon Chiantishire, in this case because it's the location of Caroline's wedding - she's the mother of Kendall, Roman and Shiv. Logan (Brian Cox) is still as amoral as ever.Ī number of crucial Succession episodes have been named after their settings: "Prague," "Austerlitz," "Argestes," "Tern Haven," "DC," "Dundee." This week, the titular setting is Chiantishire, a nickname for a part of Tuscany where well-off British folks live or vacation.
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