I think Roman is supposed to be seen like the German—and indeed English and American and so on—industrialists who supported the Nazis without actually personally sharing Hitler’s mysticism and such. All they really needed was a combination of believing Hitler and the Nazis would be good for their economic interests,…

I would describe it as a very traditional black comedy, in the spirit of Dante, Swift, Nabokov, and so on. Part of the point of such comedies is to inspire laughing at the people responsible for great social evils, the theory being that ridiculing the many personal failings of the oppressors can help embolden the…

I think the problem with viewing Roman as a killer after this episode is that Roman doesn’t even see it as a meaningful sacrifice to support someone like Mencken. His worldview seems to be that politics is all a big joke, no one really believes anything they claim to believe, everyone he cares about will be fine no…

So Roman unapologetically supports a white supremacist for President for personal gain, and Shiv inadvertently fails in her attempts to stop him by acting selfishly as well.

I guess I never forgot about Roman in the episode of Season 3 when they are picking who to support for the Presidential nomination.

The show has used recent episodes to set up like a gazillion ticking time bombs for the kids if the deal doesn’t get done. Basically everyone they know now has leverage in the form of information about illegal activities or similar, and they have all said all the care about is the kids making sure the deal gets done.

I felt like this episode was indicating Tom has a fatal lack of self-confidence. He was basically lobbed a softball job interview question by Lukas (“In the company, are you hands-on or more of an overview guy?”), and the best he could do is ask Lukas what he wanted to hear. That’s the sort of question where there is…

This episode it suddenly felt to me like they have explicitly decided to apply the classic beats of a romantic comedy to Midge and Susie.

My sense is Tom getting out of Shiv’s shadow and becoming part of Logan’s inner circle was a huge boost to his sense of self-worth, and now he is seeing it slip back away. Shiv of course is perfectly fine with Tom’s betrayal netting him nothing, and when Tom realizes that he becomes profoundly angry at her lack of…

So here is the conversation with Karl:

So the standard definition of materiality is just that there is a “substantial likelihood” a reasonable investor would consider the false information important in deciding how to invest. And it certainly seems like Kendall believed that putting these words specifically in Logan’s mouth would make a difference. Obviousl…

I thought it was potentially more her making some light humor at his expense, and certainly the picture you would get of my persona if you listened to my family when they are making fun of me would not be 100% accurate. But obviously I don’t know how their relationship works.

Yeah, Netflix didn’t invent the season-ending cliffhanger. Indeed, at least the way I was taught TV history, it was actually more or less invented by Soap in 1978, although episode-ending cliffhangers existed long before that, and for that matter happened with serialized films, radio shows, serialized novels, and so on…

Thank goodness. Loved the show—apparently Keri Russell in marriage dramas wrapped in thrillers is my personal perfect subgenre—but I wasn’t sure how it was doing with Netflix’s usual renewal metrics.

I definitely think your version of the story is possible, and it all depends on the writers at the end of the day.

So Roman comes in wanting to fire someone over Kalispitron, and Joy tries to get him to “sidebar that” because of the “big personalities” involved. With the benefit of hindsight, that was obviously a major strategic blunder by Joy, but to me it didn’t read as necessarily self-serving.

As others pointed out, to me this read like the Law & Order version of the Theranos case.  And Holmes eventually ended up with an 11.25 year prison sentence.

I’m referring to the original recording of Logan that Kendall was watching at the beginning of the episode, where Logan says, “I’m convinced that the Living Plus real estate brand can bring the cruise ship experience to dry land and provide a significant boost to the earnings of our parks division.” That original…

My read is they sincerely believed he had done a good job pitching the eternal life angle on Living+. Of course some might understand it basically pitches itself, some might be worried about fraud, and so on. But I think they were judging just by the results in the moment, which indicated that both the live audience…

Gutsy choice, but I am not sure why I am surprised at this point.