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Nuclear war is invoked twice in Rehearsal.
The first time, Tom compares Logans wandering of the ATN newsroom floor to the threat of nuclear war.
The implication is clear: All of these characters know the cost of failure is mutually assured destruction.
Thats exactly the attitude to bring to your brothers wedding weekend!
Connor and Willa are (probably) getting married, everybody!
1.Business
1.
Its like hes trying to get someone to guess good dad in a game of charades.
They can do a hard reset!
The Roys dont really do love.
To solve their personal business, theyll have to come up with an impeccably structured deal.
2.Roman Roys emotional acumen
2.
(To be fair, he is clearing a very low bar.)
3.Lukas Matsson
3.
In this episode, thats Matsson.
4.Kendall Roys existential ennui
4.
Seriously, what the fuck is Kendall up to?
He jeers his father repeatedly at the karaoke apology summit.
He wont stop talking about Buddhists.
He must be up to something!
I dont actually think he is.
Kendall seems to have realized he already lives amid the rubble and is embracing that fact.
He doesnt get points for business acumen, but hedoesget points for accurately grasping his reality.
5.Logan Roys strained apologies
5.
He starts with the small stuff.
He kept them from getting on a helicopter so they were late to Connors rehearsal dinner.
Hes not good at this, but hes pretending to try.
Hes unconvincing, but affection-starved Roman, at least, seems to want to believe him.
Yet the abused childs fantasy founders in this episode, as it inevitably would in real life.
Of course his apologies were paper thin.
What would you expect?
But he still got his kids to sit down and listen to him growl at them.
6.The staff of ATN, pirates all
6.
He tries to back Tom and Cyd into giving Kerry an anchor job.
And he looms over an employee who, he glowers darkly, sentone email.
(God, Logan should not visit my workplace!)
Avast, me hearties, yo-ho!
7.Connor Roys ability to thrive without love
7.
Its like a superpower.
And hey, when he gets home, Willas there.
He doesnt need her to love him because theres money on the table.
Its a reasonable substitute (see: 1. Business).
8.Connor and Willas wedding
8.
Good thing Connor thrives without love!
9.Tom and Greg: geniuses at work
9.
(Also: Tom, taking Logans advice, boxes out Shiv from getting a cutthroat divorce lawyer.
A power move!)
10.Leonard Cohen
10.
11.Shiv Roys self-certainty
11.
The problem with Shiv is that she can never take the win.
She wants to be themost right.
Thats why its so interesting that she so perfectly sees through him in the karaoke summit.
Shes also able to understand that motivation because it exists somewhere deep inside herself.
(Bonus points: Sarah Snook has a solid Brian Cox impression.)
12.New York City
12.
Proposed ad for the New York City tourism board:
INT.
WAYSTAR-ROYCO BOARDROOM DAY
LOGAN ROY turns from a window overlooking the city and smiles.
The camera pushes in on his face.
LOGAN: Come, my friends.
Come to this city where the rats are fat as skunks!
13.Kerry
13.
Butlast week, when I said Kerry would rise precipitously through the rankings this season?
I was dead wrong.
Too bad, Kerry!
14.Family
14.
Thats the thing, though.
You either are loved or you arent, and the Roy kids havent been loved for a long time.
Is it any wonder the family is so spectacularly imploding?
15.The number 15
15.
As an ATN staffer finally acknowledges, the number 15 isnotthe same as the number 40.
Indeed, its less than 40.
Another cunning business insight from Logan Roy!
