Except we do have context. He put his arms around her. What are you talking about?

I’m amused that you think accountants all act like grown-ups.  That’s adorable.

Sexless too. Poor Steve. 

She was in her 50s when the relationship began. Miranda’s age.

Well, as we recently learned from Elvira’s story, people can realize things about their sexuality throughout their lives. 

Sorry. Kinja’s stupid system made me think you were talking about Gatsby. I agree, the kids are both vapid and terrible. Their only real excuse is that they are the products of their father’s abuse. They’d rather have his approval than be “good.”

Possibly. Wanting specifically “evil” is probably worse. But when evil can masquerade as power and success, it’s not so clean cut. Like, how convenient for those with power to demonize the ambitious… Seems like a recipe for entrenched classes. 

That’s one of the points of his background, yes. The other point is to show a particularly American tendency - we have more sympathy for a self-made bad person (because it feeds our fantasies/mythology of the self-made man), than the useless bad people born into wealth.  But they’re all bad. 

Huh? When did I say that?

Dinklage has such a beautiful speaking voice, I wish they’d gone with a normal movie. Or let him not sing…

This.  When they announced that she was fighting “Ares” during WWI, I thought it was kind of brilliant. It’s a war where the clear “villain” is war itself.  But the movie didn’t do anything with that so…

If money was enough to satisfy them, there would be no show. 

The agreement was between two parties. If both parties agree, then they can definitely amend the agreement. Just like, if you initially agree to pay $1,000 for a car, and the seller and you both agree you should pay $1,100 instead, that would be perfectly legal.

It illustrates how self-defeating the children often are. Shiv could have had Tom’s loyalty so easily. But so thoroughly took him for granted, she set herself up to be backstabbed. Shiv can’t even take feelings to manipulate others and that’s a weakness when going against her father who is a master of that. 

A multibillionaire is always going to have power positions to hand out. Also, Tom, perhaps reasonably, believes Logan is going to find a way to get ahead despite the purchase.

True, but it does minimize the idea he’s “neglected.” Frankly, less exposure to Logan and the Roys is probably desirable. Benign neglect. 

Yeah, I think one of the ways the show explores abuse is it shows how it stunts and warps the kids’ ability to feel and express love.  Kendall is literally eaten up with the need for his father’s love and approval. 

One does not get successfully involved with gambling as a business without being both ruthless and cruel. 

Because Connor, weirdly enough, is the one who understands that you don’t play Logan’s game.  He might beg for money, but he doesn’t “play” that often. He’s basically constantly playing dead in front of the bear.

A darker view too is that he thinks a wounded, more-vulnerable Shiv will turn to him.