I don’t think I breathed for the second half of this episode
I just realized that I really hate Shiv.
This season, though still very good, has been a bit of Groundhog Day in plotting, but this is easily its best episode so far, finally advancing forward with ferocious force. More shading in tragedy instead of wallowing in variations of cringe comedy too (only Kendall has been getting most of this during the season's latter half; the convo between Shiv and her mother here is great). Plus, after almost an entire season of one-way attack, Shiv plunging the knife into Roman when she has the chance is so satisfying to watch lol.
It makes perfect sense that Roman involuntarily self-destructs because of his dick like it was destiny, but it was so sudden, so perfectly executed to 1) see the fall from the top to the deepest trenches of the Roy family pit in a matter of minutes 2) see Shiv keeping eye on the ball and just throw in as many punches as possible. Can't tell if the world is about a fight for a knife in the mud, but the Roy family is definitely that. I sat amazed while I also laughed for minutes til my head hurt and I can't remember the last time I did that. Truly chef's kiss television.
oh yes, shit is getting real
Look at you trying to get inside my head. Don't open Pandora's box, there's just more dicks in there.
Culkin is hilariously perfect as Roman.
Take it easy there, mother. That's my stepfather you're talking about.
Dead pan. Dead pan. Dean pan.
What a surprise, Ken doesn't know where his kids are.
The dick pic gave this the fuel it was missing. Felt so bad for Gerri. And not Logan saying she’s a million years old when he’s fucking his assistant like…
Also, from my calculations I believe the whole story takes place in under a year, we start from Logan’s bday and then season 2 kicks off immediately after season 1 finale and same with season 3 so, it’s been months to a year, but irl it’s been like 4 years so obviously the grandchildren look way older that they are supposed to so they should’ve casted similar age kids
Logan Roy an absolute piece of sh!t. Couldn't give me enough money to live in this world.
First half was a slog, but 2nd half was amazing.
Review by cutecruelBlockedParentSpoilers2021-12-06T18:23:50Z
This episode was insane, so much happened! I can't believe it's the 8th episode, and finally something happened this season. The focus of season 3 being more on the company, not on the family is a minus for me because we know the Roys can’t lose the company, otherwise the show would be over.
Best episode of this season. I don't even know where to begin:
"Happiest Man/Bullet Proof Candidate" - How Connor proposed to Willa at his siblings' mother's wedding, and then pretending Willa accepted the marriage proposal. So much cringe.
"I may not love you, but I do love you" - The real tea is that Shiv meant every single word she said to Tom during their ‘dirty talking'.
"Your father never saw anything he loved that he didn’t wanna kick it just to see if it would still come back." - Shiv and her mom scene was amazing. So much hatred and hurt being shown.
The Kendall/Logan dinner scene! Logan used his grandson as a royal taste tester, he's truly a monster.
Shiv trying to get both Roman and Geri out the way by weaponizing the harassment against Gerri is a next level snake move. She is the most awful girlboss feminist ever.
I'm not interested in any Greg storyline. It seems to me the writers don't know what to do with him so they just put him in this random dull side plot that nobody cares about.
Why do people think Kendall died? As if the show would go there and lose one of their stars. That's actually my biggest problem with season 3 - the show just seems afraid to walk through any of the doors it opens. It doesn't want to disappoint fans with the direction it takes, do anything interesting, or follow through.
I can't believe we only have 1 episodes left and everyone is basically still on the sides we started out at. This season was promoted like there would be a split in the group, a war, like characters would be stabbing each other in the back, but nobody ended up joining Kendall, they're really turning him into a caricature this season, he has been taking Ls for the past like 7 episodes. Season 3 is definitely not nearly as good as season 2, what is basically a perfect season of television.