Succession
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And so it falls to Kendall, who opts to put away his brothers note cards and speak extemporaneously.
Heres the key excerpt from the speech:
He made life happen.
He made me and my three siblings.
And yes, he had a terrible force to him.
And a fierce ambition that could push you to the side.
But it was only that human thing the will to be and to be seen and to do.
Dear reader, it is not in him.
Its not in any of them.
Thats the core joke ofSuccession.
Those are temper tantrums.
Never mind that the most extraordinary access she ever had was witnessing the potential end of democracy.
Roman fucked it, as Kendall so bluntly and correctly puts it to him.
If any of them were really up for the job, theyd have won thatkiss from Daddy.
Then again, what will they have inherited anyway?
WatchingSuccessionthese last couple of weeks has felt terrible because it feels familiar.
For folks like the Roys, though, were left to wonder if it matters.
The mourners are totally insulated from the world theyve created.
Hes the rare billionaire foolish enough to fuck around and find out.
If you have a little dickie, maybe you dont go to the nudist beach.
A tsunami just came in and washed everything away.
No one is checking the dicks.
Pretty clear why Shiv dragged her feet in telling her brothers about her pregnancy.
(Roman: If I see you breastfeeding, I am going to have to jerk off.)
And hilarious that her mother knows right away.
Fantastic episode for Marcia.
They share a knowing laugh about Logan grinding his teeth when he sleeps.
I miss him very much.
He broke my heart.
And he broke your hearts, too.
He always believed that he brought the polio with him, says Ewan.
This echoes an important line from Kendall last week about family and inheritance: Maybe the poison drips through.
When he let you in, when the sun shone, it was warm, she says.
It was warm in the light.
And then he forgets you, and its very, very cold.)
Everything about Logans tomb is amazing.
The gaudy enormity of it (Was he in a bidding war with Stalin and Liberace?
), the fact that he picked it from a dot-com pet-supply guy (Wow.
Roman cannot get in the fun, however.
He cant even bring himself to go inside.
The thing about your dad is hes lost a lot of influence over the last few days.
