Wtf happened at the end there, what is Shiv's angle? :thinking: They are all making moves without each other: Ken lied to Roman and Shiv about telling Hugo to badmouth their dad in the press, Roman froze out Ken when he went off on Matsson on the cliff, and Shiv is now developing her own relationship with Mattson. These siblings can't work together, can they?
I like how the episode opened with a mirroring scene to Kendall’s original intro in the pilot. When Ken is rocking in the town car to rap, you know he’s back on his bullshit.
“Already rich.”
The Tom/Shiv stuff is so unhealthy.
I think Matsson was lying to Shiv about the blood bricks. He's playing her for sure. He was sounding Shiv out, I think the fact that he plays to her ego right afterwards by commenting how she is cool and like her father indicates some manipulation on Matsson's part.
I thought Toms little speech before that about how America has its own Paris and if that burned down they’d just build another was really good as well, such a perfect summation of a particularly American arrogance.
“I metabolise fast because I’m dynamic.”
“2 meters of nepotism.” is such a brutal insult to Greg. I think the Tom and Greg thing has slipped into self-parody at this point and it’s not really working anymore. Greg has become a pointless character.
“Sweden or Norway they all descend from the same rapists.”
Since season 1, I've been having the feeling Greg is somehow, at some point, gonna be the ultimate winner (and/or even 'the' successor) of this show. I mean, just look how far he has already gotten from absolutely nowhere. And the fact that Tom brought him in on Logan's good side, at the end of this episode, also only works in his favor! Just hope I am somehow right, really have respect for that dude :smile:
This episode was insane, so much happened! I can't believe it's the 8th episode, and finally something happened this season. The focus of season 3 being more on the company, not on the family is a minus for me because we know the Roys can’t lose the company, otherwise the show would be over.
Best episode of this season. I don't even know where to begin:
"Happiest Man/Bullet Proof Candidate" - How Connor proposed to Willa at his siblings' mother's wedding, and then pretending Willa accepted the marriage proposal. So much cringe.
"I may not love you, but I do love you" - The real tea is that Shiv meant every single word she said to Tom during their ‘dirty talking'.
"Your father never saw anything he loved that he didn’t wanna kick it just to see if it would still come back." - Shiv and her mom scene was amazing. So much hatred and hurt being shown.
The Kendall/Logan dinner scene! Logan used his grandson as a royal taste tester, he's truly a monster.
Shiv trying to get both Roman and Geri out the way by weaponizing the harassment against Gerri is a next level snake move. She is the most awful girlboss feminist ever.
I'm not interested in any Greg storyline. It seems to me the writers don't know what to do with him so they just put him in this random dull side plot that nobody cares about.
Why do people think Kendall died? As if the show would go there and lose one of their stars. That's actually my biggest problem with season 3 - the show just seems afraid to walk through any of the doors it opens. It doesn't want to disappoint fans with the direction it takes, do anything interesting, or follow through.
I can't believe we only have 1 episodes left and everyone is basically still on the sides we started out at. This season was promoted like there would be a split in the group, a war, like characters would be stabbing each other in the back, but nobody ended up joining Kendall, they're really turning him into a caricature this season, he has been taking Ls for the past like 7 episodes. Season 3 is definitely not nearly as good as season 2, what is basically a perfect season of television.
“You're suing Greenpeace? I like your style Greg. Who's next? Save the Children?.”
Maybe I’m being hyper critical but this season really lacks flow. It feels like there aren’t really any subplots, the main focus is just on one thing only, and that plot isn’t moving a whole lot either. It's mid season, and there's still no serious plot progression. It's like the show is just spinning wheels and doesn't know where it wants to go. Frank desperately stalling on stage this episode felt like a coded cry for help from the writers.
Not a big fan of this episode, mostly because I was expecting this to be a turning point in the season. They’ve been hyping the shareholders meeting since season 1 episode 8, and in the end, it was resolved with a few board seats and private jets. It felt pretty anticlimactic, and a total and complete cop-out. There was no tension because we already know they wouldn't lose the company or else the series ends right there. Also, we are into the 3rd season and the hierarchy hasn't been changed at all, it looks like the writers don't know a way forward without Logan in charge and keep going in circles - all the events that have taken place so far are shown to be huge but just end up being none issues. I’m surprised at how quickly they dropped Lisa Arthur or the DOJ investigation, for example.
We have watched 5 episodes of this season and I still have no clue what's the point of Kendall right now? The writers did very little with it given last season’s pivotal cliffhanger. Kendall was never this dumb before. It feels like he’s just kind of aimless this season, painfully ineffectual. I think the writers are planning to revisit this plotline of Kendall going after his dad, then fail. I hope I'm wrong.
Overall, there's still some great little moments (“It would be great to get the body up there”, Colin rushing off with the imaginary dead cat bag, “If he can do people, he can do rabbits”, the irony of saying they care about women and then cutting that video off) but I just couldn't really get into this episode. I hope the real action starts next week.
