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Tom Hanks would say he has dead eyes, but in this case, its an asset.
In basketball parlance,Successiontends to play a flowing game, while Lukas is the equivalent of a ball-stopper.
Lukas represents something completely different.
(Whatever happened to that guy, anyway?)
Hes also quite a bit weirder than all the Roy boys combined.
Up to this point, Lukass presence onSuccessiontended to take the form of volatile bursts.
Forget mailing liters of blood to an ex whos also his employee; thats pubescent stuff.
But having sex with randos whilewearing noise-canceling headphonesblaringpodcasts?
And Logan thoughtRomanwas the sicko.
Its fun to play the Who inspired this character?
Any fictional tech billionaire naturally evokes the usual antecedents: Zuckerberg, Dorsey, the Google boys.
The most unsettling quality about Lukas is the lack of clarity around his motivations.
This quality makes his late-night confab with Shiv all the more interesting.
Is Lukas, too, just looking to be seen a little?
That encounter produces an illustrative exchange: Everything is boring, isnt it?
says the Roy patriarch.
Yeah, everything is pretty fucking boring, Lukas replies.
Exceptthis, says Logan, referring to the merger.
Theres a clear mismatch in deal-making rationality between the two parties.
Did Lukas win the negotiation?
Well, the deals done with ATN in tow, even if GoJo does have to pay more.
Though, really, whats a few tens of millions more to a megaconglomerate?
Of course, its never about the money.
(Only Roman is an unambiguous loser here.)
More to the point, though: Will any of this really matter to Lukas?
Lets be clear:Successionis far from anyeat the rich fantasy.
Lukas runs little risk of suffering true comeuppance in this particular moral universe.
In this, the Scandinavian shares, once again, an aspect of Logans interiority.
Nothing tastes like it used to, doesnt it?
Nothing is the same as it was, muses the Roy patriarch in fourth-season premiere The Munsters.
