Succession Season 2 Episode 9 Review Tv Fanatic

If that doesn't get your juices pumping in apprehension of the finale, what on earth would do it for yous?

On Succession Season 2 Episode 9, it'due south all easily on deck equally Logan tries to deal with the whistleblower complaint. Just despite the incredible actions of Kendall, Shiv, and Roman, in the finish, it'southward apparent a sacrifice must be fabricated to keep the shareholders happy.

Who will information technology be? We can only guess.

Gerri was the starting time to offering a solution to their whistleblower problem, so it's unlikely nosotros need to worry near her.

Wanna hear what I recall? I recall we say the truth. [suspension] That the senior core here and the family knew null of this. So we throw Mo overboard. Mo, bad apple. Jim Weasel, bad apple. Spies a volume bargain, sort of OJ, backed by Sandy and Stewy, all corporate fucker. No real business organization. And in terms of historic shit? I'm afraid we requite up Bill because he should have allow us know what he discovered rather than make clean upwardly without telling u.s.a. the details. I don't think there's gonna be paper that shows annihilation beyond Bill.

Gerri

Even more importantly, her story is just getting proficient. Non only does anybody lean on her and capeesh her opinion, she's summit on Roman's list, and with Roman's increased responsibility, his word will accept a lot more merit.

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It began pretty easy. Let's all kill Beak. It was not only an first-class movie reference, simply it was an easy out for Waystar. Bill might have been a nice guy who everyone liked, just he was expendable. He'south not even with the visitor anymore.

Only that was before Tom took the stand and made a mockery of everything that had been washed nigh Mo's unsavory behavior.

Hugo might take said to fillibuster to have up as much time every bit possible, but what he did not say was to deed like a complete buffoon.

Gerri's suggestion was to tell the truth and dissuade Congress from the belief that anybody currently in accuse had anything to do with Lester's actions. Instead, Tom got bowled over past the pressure.

Gil: Lester's nickname was Mo. Mo Lester. Molester. That never came up?
Tom: Senator, ha ha, I guess maybe he was a footling creepy seeming, peradventure.
Gil: Well, you were right there.
Tom: But simply considering he was chosen molester didn't mean. Mmm. It was just a, just an off-colour joke. You know?
Gil: That was one hundred percent based on truth. Merely of all the many, many people that called this molester Mo Lester, non one of them had the slightest idea that he actually was a molester. You can encounter how that stretches our credulity.
Tom: Yep, Senator, I can encounter that. He just seemed a flake [pause] like one. Peradventure. But we didn't know anything!

When the topic of Mo's nickname showtime came upwards during Succession Flavour 2 Episode 4, I mentioned how common it was for sure groups of guy to latch onto nicknames like that.

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The best class of action would have been to utilize that avenue of good-natured idiocy every bit an alibi, simply Tom went straight for idiocy of the regular variety.

He maintained that grade of activeness when Gil brought up poor Cousin Greg. Poor Greg for getting involved with this side of the family and poor Greg for turning away a quarter of a billion dollars.

Gil: Do you know what is special about the hours between iii a.m. and 5 a.m. on the night of March 12?
Tom: Uh, no sir.
Gil: That was the only ii-hour flow in which you did Not send an email to Mr. Hirsch with the title You Tin can't Brand a Tomlet Without Breaking Some Gregs. You transport the same email to him 67 times in one evening.
Tom: I guess information technology was a joke [snickers nervously].

It was shocking to learn how much of his terrible behavior Tom referenced in emails.

From the 67 emails he sent to Greg about the Tomlet to Gil referencing the man furniture aka footstooling incident, Tom's ignorance most corporate email is phenomenal.

He'south always been a bit of a dumble, only he's also managed to have a career, presumably, even before he was involved with Shiv. I'd like to share correct now that all major corporations are not full of such dumbasses.

Many of united states of america had a lot of nasty things to say about each other, but we too knew what to use on email and what to do backside closed doors with each other while in the part. Yep, this stuff goes on no matter how woke the world claims to exist, but virtually of information technology goes unwitnessed and without a paper trail.

What is information technology like to exist married to a man with ii assholes?

Hugo

So fifty-fifty if Tom is married to Shiv, I'm placing him at the tiptop of the listing to sacrifice. No, Shiv volition non be happy about information technology, but I believe she'due south serious about cut the fat and making someone pay for the sins of the company.

When she visited the victim, she was very clear and quite truthful. She's going to do what is in her best interest.

And even if she might like Tom to some caste and maybe even dearest him, it'due south hard not to see how he got mocked and how mockable he remains as everything continues.

Does she actually want to be chained to that man given all that she knows? The reply will probably ultimately be yes, just dammit, I desire her to stand straight and fly right. Tom is a liability.

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So once more, she is also very persuasive. She wouldn't have been in politics without that skill. Shiv could very well talk herself, the board and everyone else into assertive something unlike about her husband.

After all, look how much data she got from Gil at a time Gil wanted to show her the door. Shiv walked abroad knowing the name of the victim and where to notice her. That's impressive.

Gil was giving it good during the hearing, but ultimately, Kendall endemic him.

That's important to recognize because Logan was not in his chemical element before congress. Exterior of a prepared statement, the man in whose shadow everyone else operates failed miserably.

Gil: Is that any style to proceed the lifeblood of a commonwealth going past using news every bit your own personal ATM?
Kendall: Uh, if, if I may, um, I call back y'all might be under a misapprehension, Senator. In this country, all news -- from the Times to the supermarket tabloid -- is for turn a profit, sir. We don't take a land media. As I'm sure y'all know, yous'd accept to go to China or Russia for that.

Kendall may be a mess because of his dependence on artificial substances and, inexplicably, his father, but when he's in the hot seat, he tin really manage a room.

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As Logan later said, Kendall came out fighting, but Logan was nevertheless hurt. And dammit, Logan deserves to be injure for throwing Kendall in front of the passenger vehicle. That's not a man who deserves to be ruling the roost any longer.

It irked me no cease that even if Kendall got a few pats on the back after his incredible display earlier Congress that Logan got a round of applause just for existence him.

He did aught but flounder when the light shone too bright into his eyes. What he appears to have is exactly what he sees in Roman. For some reason, people like him even if they detest him, too. They tin can't trust him, simply he isn't as despised as he should be for what he says and does.

Gil: Mr. Logan Roy, what did y'all personally know about the functioning of a system of obfuscation of wrongdoing in your prowl partitioning past means of keeping of shadow logs?
Logan: At that point, I believe my son was across that operation, wasn't he?
Gil: At which point?
Logan: At the point, he was across amusement operations. You could talk to him.
Gil: Mr. Kendall Roy. Tell us about the shadow logs.
Kendall: I'1000 sorry. Madam Chairwoman, can I, can I speak for a moment? Because, you know, I'm here in skilful faith today. I'one thousand very willing to talk you, Senator, and the committee through our operations, only, uh, permit'south cut the BS, shall we? Because it seems to me that this investigation, uh, is not about proper oversight of the prowl industry codes and standards or some highly regrettable but isolated incidents from nearly ii decades ago. What this feels to me it's about is your personal dislike of my male parent and your ideological hatred of his newspapers and his news channels, and in item, of the, uh, success story which is ATN on which you've appeared, I think, 14 times in the final iv months, Senator. Senator Eavis, it seems that since you don't concur with u.s.a. ideologically, goose egg nosotros tin can say will be enough. No groveling will exist low enough, and equally much every bit yous like to accuse of us of bias, uh, today you're the one with the bias. And so, I say, go ahead. Hit us as hard every bit yous tin can. We can take it. Nosotros have null to hibernate.

No, it was Kendall who cleaned up the mess Tom made before Congress and that Logan was unable to address.

Kendall'due south faults might brand him seem like a good blood sacrifice, just without him, the company would suffer. Logan props him upwards considering he knows Kendall's capabilities, and for that, Logan should be commended.

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He might not exist able to handle a lot on his own because he flies off the handle as well hands and dodges responsibleness, but Logan surrounds himself with good people. Good people with many faults, only generally good people.

So Kendall is in the articulate. So is Shiv. The nature of the conversation with Logan makes that a given, but she'south a capable, driven woman with enviable connections.

Even if she places herself starting time in many situations, she went to the mat for the family business organisation.

It wasn't easy to visit with a victim, especially since Shiv is so attuned to the more liberal side of democracy and with women's rights. She sees herself exterior of the scope of the family business, and she fully intends on changing things if she takes control of the company.

Shiv: What is it that yous are trying to get? Because money? Coin you can accept. That's easy. Book deal. Interview appearances. We will give yous millions of dollars, and I will destroy the men who ran that dingy operation. I will kill them for what they've washed, and I desire yous to aid me. We volition be the best, cleanest operation in the world because of you if you aid me do this. Would you help me?
Kira: Well, information technology sounds, uh, can I trust y'all?
Shiv: No. Really, no. Kira, yous're in a shitstorm of alien interests hither. You can't trust anyone. Yous just have to be smart. So listen to everyone, and make an cess, cause bluntly, I want what's best for me. But the other people, the folks who desire y'all to become upwards there tomorrow and get pulled autonomously? They want what'due south best for them. You need to think about what'due south best for y'all, huh?

What she'll ultimately notice if she takes the lead of Waystar Royco is that in a cutthroat business, information technology'south a lot harder to walk the lines she draws than she thinks information technology is from her electric current position.

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Sarah Snook does such a good chore with the complexities of Shiv and the push and pull of her contradictory political behavior and her need to protect the family that I hope she takes a much larger part in the visitor concern for Succession Flavor 3 fifty-fifty if Logan remains at the captain.

Watching her balancing act would exist very entertaining, especially if Tom is the blood sacrifice, and the two stay married. That would be so succulent!

Simply Cousin Greg ne Gregory is likewise a candidate for sacrifice.

Trusting Logan could plough out to be his worst decision. Logan had no problem kick his ass out of the room with the grownups when he was accusing Tom of dragging him to prison for the rest of his life.

So fifty-fifty while Tom would make sense philosophically, Greg would brand sense logistically. After the testimony and reveal that Greg'south whereabouts when the documents were destroyed are public knowledge, using the documents he kept from the fire becomes a petty more difficult.

Greg could very easily make a bargain with Congress if he were always accused of a criminal offense, but he's also cutting the ties with his grandpa. After Connor and Tom laid on the poorest rich human shtick, he's not feeling very confident.

Merely wouldn't it exist a lot of fun to see Greg and the great James Cromwell equally Ewan going up against the rest of the family unit? If it came down to Greg having the power to stick it to Logan, where would Ewan stand up?

When the condom met the route and Kendall tried to accept the company away from Logan, Ewan stepped to the side of his blood brother.

Logan is his cash cow. Nobody else feels for Ewan like Logan does. Fifty-fifty if Logan and Ewan don't shower each other amore, they have a lifetime of alliance between them that gets exposed when the going gets crude.

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Greg on the outs would permit him to make things a lot more difficult for Tom if cipher else. And he's family. Fifty-fifty if Greg got sacrificed, he wouldn't exist gone from the picture.

So Tom and Greg are adept candidates for the sacrificial lamb.

Someone who isn't a candidate is Roman.

Logan: I need you to hunt downwards the Sovereign Wealth money.
Roman: OK. Uh, I mean, right. Uh, that's a [snickers], information technology'south a cool idea, but it's kind of a stretch, you know?
Logan: That Cardinal Asian money? That's no strings, fuckable dry pulverisation. Fourth dimension out from the responsibilities of being a public company. That'due south a fuckin' lifeline. Can yous do it?
Roman: Can I practice information technology?
Logan: Uh huh.
Roman: [laughs] Um, fuck, dad, I desire to say yes, but I'll be honest, if information technology's like really of import... I mean, I can say I can practice information technology, like, you know, a fireman in a flick, only honestly, I
Logan: You deed the fuck knuckle, but you know, people similar you.
Roman: Information technology's a actually large, fucking deal to set up.
Logan: Eh, anyone can do a deal. It's getting the right number from the right suit. Getting your dick in there is easy. Getting them into bed. That's hard.
Roman: For some.
Logan: You can do it.
Roman: Then, uh, yeah. Certain dad, I got it.

Whether Logan was honest with his son well-nigh his capabilities isn't even of import. What is of import is that Roman stepped upward to the plate.

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He was doing really well with his presentation when the got interrupted by terrorist activity. He was confident and sure the company could overcome any obstacles that might keep Eduard and his dad from making coin with Waystar Royco.

Roman: Oh, fuck. Ohhh. Fuck, fuck, fuck. This isn't business organisation, is it?
Karl: No, information technology is not very businessy.
Roman: Shit.
Eduard: Don't worry. This is all normal.
Karl: Actually?
Roman: Yeah, swell, cause this feels super fucking normal, homo. Is this, are these terrorists? And where's my fuckin' security guy? Where's Dave?
Eduard: Information technology, it's just a, an administrative action role.
Roman: Uh, yeah, just great, and what exactly is a, oh hey, look at that. Guy non existence allowed to leave the hotel. At gunpoint. That'south an administrative action function. This is gr, what, what is that?
Eduard: There'southward simply like a, um, gathering hither at present of us and some, some, some other investors and so on, and
Roman: With guns.
Eduard: Yeah, their guys are some kind of, um, anti-corruption kind of guys, and they're like, it's their briefing or, uh, party, and nosotros're all invited.
Roman: Uh, well, that'due south uh, nice, just what if we, what if nosotros don't wanna go. Is that absurd? [screams band out]
Karl: OK.
Eduard: Information technology'due south the kind of political party where you accept to go.

But what a crazy turn, right? Kieran Culkin was exceptional equally Roman realized the danger was real. And like Roman, I have to wonder -- where's Dave? Is he expressionless? Why take Dave?

Honestly, I don't fifty-fifty know who Dave is, but the way Roman grasped at the fact his security baby-sit was the commencement to go spoke volumes.

And as horrific as the entire scenario was, it also produced laughs from their brusk game of I-Spy something with my little heart starting with H catastrophe in hostages to their game of Marry, Fuck, Kill.

God, I dear Danny Huston. He's such a great wingman. Jamie choosing to marry Gerri sent Roman to his snarky best when he went to the uttermost degree possible to show Jamie how gross he thought it was that anyone would want to marry Gerri.

That cements Roman's sincere feelings for Gerri as well as her hereafter on the prove, right? Right.

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The funniest moment came from Jamie, though, when Roman wondered if they were all going to get killed, an answer we do not have as of the credits at the end of the hour.

Roman: And can I ask, not to make this all about us, just are they going to shoot us at any bespeak?
Jamie: I am also intrigued on that signal.

I don't know what it was about the way Jamie said that just I couldn't finish laughing. Their situation is then dire that it'due south the best opportunity for humor, and comedy was used to its all-time reward.

Roman was most shocked that he was continuing so tall in such stressful circumstances, simply he was even more taken aback by the fact he was still wheeling and dealing while their lives were on the line.

I mean, should nosotros encounter if maybe some of the other hostages desire to cut a bargain? This could be a bumper time for united states.

Roman

If you pay attending to the cycle of news in these United states of america, you know there is nothing that takes the force per unit area off of something like a congressional hearing like a personal disaster.

The best thing for the family right now is for the news organisation to get current of air of the terror in Turkey and Roman's identify in it. That will prepare the country right back onto the side of Waystar Royco.

A sacrifice won't need to be made because attention volition turn, at least temporarily, to the fact that one of their own was in nifty peril while the family was busy fighting for their visitor.

And 1 thing is certain. Rhea will not exist the sacrificial lamb because she walked.

It seems she actually was snowed by Logan and wanted to do the right thing, but when you tin't believe the homo giving you orders, it's hard to move forrard.

Logan: You know, y'all're fungible.
Rhea: I am non fungible.
Logan: Oh, yes you lot are. Yous're as fungible as fuck.
Rhea: Fine. So funge me. Go ahead. Effort.

She's right. She's not fungible at all. If she was, she wouldn't have been plucked up so quickly by Logan. She has value.

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Granted, Shiv wanted that value to be taking the pressure off of the family as CEO during tumultuous times, but that ship has sailed.

Going into the Succession Flavor 2 finale, there is a lot on the table.

Volition everyone with Roman arrive out of Turkey live? Volition his deal mitigate the legal repercussions when the visitor goes private?

Will the visitor name a blood sacrifice before Roman's deportment come to light? And if that person is told fifty-fifty if they aren't sacrificed, how will it go downward?

There is then much to unpack here from the nifty performances to Logan's congressional hiccup.

What stood out for you during "DC"?

Hit the comments, and let'southward chat about it!

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