oh i didn’t get at all that the rally energized him. to me that (literally) knocked him down to reality. sarcastic, cutting remarks don’t mean shit if you’re getting punched.

It is interesting that Connor was in that video of Logan relaxing with old employees/sort of friends. And Connor even roasted him a bit with the teapot song, calling back to the first episode this season. Logan didn’t respect him and didn’t see him as a potential rival or threat like the other kids, which in a…

You caught me, I clearly loathe this TV show I have written 25,000 words about and given uniformly high scores to.

I’m gonna go with the men kill each other, potentially Sally kills Barry (but not necessarily), and the movie gets made now from Sally’s POV with her as the victimized heroine. Last scene is Sally advising the superhero actress on how to play her in the movie. Either Sally remains an absentee mother now that she’s a…

Barry becomes a single-father/lumberjack in the Pacific Northwest. Sally goes to work for a sprinkler sales company in Florida.

This has equally become Kendall, Shiv and Roman’s show. I think the writers were just giving us some insight into how each kid is experiencing the death of Logan in tremendously different ways because the neglect they each feel is from the same man but in different ways. It would have been a miss by the show if Shiv…

I don’t know how you can watch this show and think capitalism isn’t a problem. It’s literally what the show is about. Capitalism has killed and abandoned people just the same way as any other system.

he also, more often than not, rises to the occasion in these situations, especially when everything else is falling apart. like, all that stuff we saw him go through BEFORE the funeral fuelled that.

And instead it felt like he’d spent all week writing and rehearsing it for this contingency.

I was saying something similar last night. We don't know what happened on that night out with Greg. I think it comes back. He's either the huge fall guy, or he just bumbles upward 

One of the things that struck me during this episode is just how thoroughly alone Roman is. While it’s true that neither Kendall nor Shiv have deep friendships that we’ve seen, we’ve gotten a sense of relationships they have cultivated outside of Waystar. Both have been married; both have occasionally called upon…

I honestly don’t think any of the kids ends up atop the company, regardless of whether the deal goes through or not. I think both sides of the deal—Matsson and/or the Board—have seen their unsuitability. If they haven’t been preparing to look outside the Roy family for the next leader of Waystar, they’re dumber than…

I continue to be stunned at how Armstrong and Co. can put out such consistently stellar writing and direction each and every episode. Seriously, I can’t think of an episode this whole series that was a misstep. The characters are so finely drawn and fully realized, and that’s so, so hard to do consistently across…

I sincerely fear Culkin may have stolen Bob Odenkirk’s Emmy tonight.

That whole episode, I just winced every time Greg opened his mouth. He’s cut from the same mold as Tom, but Tom at least has the barest ounce of (something like) loyalty to balance against his opportunism. Greg is pure opportunism at its most bald-faced and grasping. 

Honestly Ewans speech was good and James Cromwell was so amazing that  for me his speech just over wrote Shiv’s and Kendalls. Ewan was a man who hated and loved his brother and now he has to bury him and Ewan was the eldest. He did it so well MVP for me 

We were absolutely meant to have the “is Tom going to jump?” thought — the lingering camera was perfectly engineered to create that tension. Mad Men did similar teases with Don Draper.

When Tom yelled, “I asked you to marry me because I LOVED you!” I finally understood the full extent of the damage Shiv’s parents caused. She can’t comprehend that anyone would genuinely love her.

I guess he figured

“There’s one person here who doesn’t think I’m a joke.”