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- Episode aired Apr 30, 2023
- TV-MA
- 1h 2m
IMDb RATING
8.7/10
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Ahead of Investor Day, Shiv weighs a proposal from Matsson, while Kendall and Roman each try to match Logan's volatile leadership style.Ahead of Investor Day, Shiv weighs a proposal from Matsson, while Kendall and Roman each try to match Logan's volatile leadership style.Ahead of Investor Day, Shiv weighs a proposal from Matsson, while Kendall and Roman each try to match Logan's volatile leadership style.
Justine Lupe
- Willa Ferreyra
- (credit only)
Alan Ruck
- Connor Roy
- (credit only)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaSeries creator, Jesse Armstrong, confirmed that the idea to set the episode around a product launch was inspired by both Apple and Microsoft's keynote events.
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Featured review
Grief takes many forms
It's powerful how this episode shows the different forms grief can take. However, it does it through a "normal day in the life", via the not-so-relatable routine of running a major corporation, which also happens to be a family business. It is unironically refreshing to have an episode focused on business work. It gives us a plot that is a bit more grounded. The previous episodes, and the whole arc they followed, were more focused on the drama and on inter-personal relationship dynamics. They helped us understand each characters inner struggle. But they were always in flux, always a pathway and not quite a destination.
Here, the plot has a more conventional structure, with a beginning, middle and end. The brothers had tried to kill the merger deal from the outside by trying to alienate Matsson. This time they are trying to do it from the inside, by either souring the board or unlocking "unlimited growth".
What is of note is that the siblings are at very different mental states. Kendall is the most emotionally open; it doesn't make him necessarily the most vulnerable. You could actually argue that acknowledging the grief and harnessing it into a productive endeavour is somewhat positive. Yet, as we've seen with Kendall again and again there is a superficiality to it. It is all kinda fake, it's all just buzzwords. And you can feel that it's fragile, that the façade could crumble anytime. And he knows it. We have seen that happen before were he started confident and bombastic but it lead him ultimately to a hard crash. I believe it happened every season so far. Nevertheless, as for now Ken is in charge and de facto the best Roy to take over. We'll see if the bubble bursts, or if Ken can find a way not to drift away in the ocean.
Roman, on the other hand, is almost the polar opposite; he agressively refuses to face his own feelings. We've seen already how it lead to an unhealthy outburst that resulted in a situation that is the opposite of what he wanted. This time, his whole behaviour is a continous outburst of repressed denial. And you can see the anger and sadness in the way he wants to fire anyone who stands up to him. Yet there is also something changing in Roman, Ken is taking his feelings head on but it's just the same old Ken. Roman's grief is making him into someone else, and for now it seems it can go either way, for better or for worse.
Shiv is somewhere in between the two in the large spectrum of grief. Not quite delayed sadness, not quite repressed anger, but a bit of both at the same time. It is revealing: for her pain and pleasure are very alike and she revels in receiving it as much a giving it. Maybe even more so.
This episode allows us to see how these emotions manifest themselves.
Here, the plot has a more conventional structure, with a beginning, middle and end. The brothers had tried to kill the merger deal from the outside by trying to alienate Matsson. This time they are trying to do it from the inside, by either souring the board or unlocking "unlimited growth".
What is of note is that the siblings are at very different mental states. Kendall is the most emotionally open; it doesn't make him necessarily the most vulnerable. You could actually argue that acknowledging the grief and harnessing it into a productive endeavour is somewhat positive. Yet, as we've seen with Kendall again and again there is a superficiality to it. It is all kinda fake, it's all just buzzwords. And you can feel that it's fragile, that the façade could crumble anytime. And he knows it. We have seen that happen before were he started confident and bombastic but it lead him ultimately to a hard crash. I believe it happened every season so far. Nevertheless, as for now Ken is in charge and de facto the best Roy to take over. We'll see if the bubble bursts, or if Ken can find a way not to drift away in the ocean.
Roman, on the other hand, is almost the polar opposite; he agressively refuses to face his own feelings. We've seen already how it lead to an unhealthy outburst that resulted in a situation that is the opposite of what he wanted. This time, his whole behaviour is a continous outburst of repressed denial. And you can see the anger and sadness in the way he wants to fire anyone who stands up to him. Yet there is also something changing in Roman, Ken is taking his feelings head on but it's just the same old Ken. Roman's grief is making him into someone else, and for now it seems it can go either way, for better or for worse.
Shiv is somewhere in between the two in the large spectrum of grief. Not quite delayed sadness, not quite repressed anger, but a bit of both at the same time. It is revealing: for her pain and pleasure are very alike and she revels in receiving it as much a giving it. Maybe even more so.
This episode allows us to see how these emotions manifest themselves.
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- May 8, 2023
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- Warner Brothers Commissary Fine Dining Room, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA(lunch between Roman Roy and Joy Palmer)
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- Runtime1 hour 2 minutes
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- 1.78 : 1
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