Logan is vicious and domineering because of how he was raised. The kids are selfish and vapid because of how they were raised. He’s not an idiot. He understand both elements.

Well certainly. It’s not like his speech was subtle. My point is that he’s not shocked and horrified by what the kids are. I’d say he just groups them among Logan’s sins/monstrous accomplishments.  Logan made mean, vapid children just like he made a mean vapid world. 

I mean, they do have an excellent reason to act the way they do: They were raised by Logan. But Ewan justifiably hates all the monsters, big and small, Logan has made.

I assumed that Matsson’s use of “american CEO” meant that he was selecting Kendall. It was a slippery way to make Shiv think he was picking her for now, but he wasn’t.

Not sure how this would be an example of “navel gazing”? It’s not like it’s yet another film about the film industry.

Yeah, and they are fascists.

I think the issue is that ultimately it’s all about Kendall and his ego. It’s not about whether Sophie is happy, it’s about whether he’s a “good dad.” It’s about his power, his legacy, his biography.

I mean, I think it’s kind of the opposite. Empathy hasn’t made Kendall actually do anything meaningful for his daughter. It’s essentially more self-pitying narcissistic garbage from him. “Oh sweetie. It was so hard selling you and everyone like you down the river. It hurts me so much.”

Seems like a weird read. One is a refusal to engage in corrupt practices and the other is failing to court actual voters. 

“Dems lose election because they don’t get into bed with big business enough,” is a strange take. 

“I’m not a fascist in my heart. I’m just friends with fascists, financially and politically support them, and constantly repeat fascist things,” isn’t very convincing. Also, Roman supposedly calling out Joy wasn’t sincere. It is a common fascist tactic to call out hypocrisy as a way of avoiding criticism.

Maybe it’s just that social media means we know people are doing this? Like, people famously lost their minds when Dickens had “Little Nell” die in his serial novel. 

I mean, yeah obviously. Sometimes a show surprises you with something you didn’t know you’d like and sometimes you find out that it’s going in a direction that you don’t like.

Nah. If that were the case, they wouldn’t show Roman rushing off desperate to squeeze a win from Connor and failing to even do that. Roman is spinning out.

That is a laughably ridiculous interpretation of that scene. Roman literally walks away from his failed attempt to reconcile with Geri to an equally failed attempt to browbeat his weakest brother. You didn’t catch that the Connor scene was Roman transparently searching for anyone who he could bully into obeying him?

I think your view is utopian if you think Kendall has “loyalty” to anyone employed at WS. His loyalty is based on the degree of usefulness a person has to him.

Because that’s how humans talk? In this case, they are expressing the gravity/scale of the problem by expressing it in terms of needing a whole other India. 

Does getting rid of Geri benefit him? She’s competent, reliable, and morally flexible. Basically the ideal general counsel for him. If he really wants to be Logan, but bigger, keeping Geri makes sense. Roman wanted to get rid of Geri for personal reasons and Kendall is letting him run amok, but if it’s just Kendall?…

I’m not sure there’s any upside to that. Everyone already thinks he’s a brilliant, money-printer. So creating a narrative where he isn’t, but actually he IS wouldn’t gain him much. Unless it’s a misdirect from some other bad thing going on at his company? 

It’s not the number of people in India, it’s the number of people who would actually be inclined to subscribe.