Yeah, of course guys like this are against no-fault divorce and think women should be bound to them forever. That’s a given. My main takeaway here is that he is suffering and in real emotional pain, and that has made my day just a little bit better. 

“Take half” is code for “I don’t want to pay child support and alimony, and I don’t want to marry a woman who can support herself either because then I wouldn’t have 100% control of the rest of her life.”

“but you’re good-looking—your best path to victory is simply to marry a man, leave him, and take half.”

I’m not an Armisen lover by any stretch, but Hader’s dry “That guy’s here to kill me” was a perfect counter-reaction to Armisen’s blatant over-the-top acting.

It’s a revolver, if I recall. In which case it’s both a prop and real gun as revolvers don’t need to be modified to shoot blanks (thanks for that knowledge, In Bruges).

I heard it more as a “Rip Torn was a badass” remark, rather than a slight.

Oh yeah 100%. As soon as they introduced the assassins as the “podcast guys who talk about gadgets that never work” I knew we were going to see one of those gadgets not working. Still a fun reveal.

It’s the little lines like that that make this show so great.

They would have to tank the deal by making Mattson walk away. After that their plan requires that nobody figures out it was them and for the board to say “well we were just keeping you around to finish this deal because it’s what your dad would have wanted, but now we’ll just let you run the corporation going forward”.

“Their hotel with the little pods, river and sauna is Hotel Juvet (also seen in Ex Machina)“

You know, right when they got there I thought it might have been the same place as Ex Machina.  Glad to have some confirmation!

Kendall complaining the rooms were small and that mountains make his sneaks muddy made me hate-laugh at him so hard. What a rube.

Now I have to go research this hotel and bump Norway up a few slots on the travel wish list.

...so much so that I thought the role Kristen booked was as Sally in an upcoming film version...

We've known about the gun for a while. Gene tries to use it on Barry early in season 3. (Which makes me think he knows it's not a prop gun and is just embarrassed by his failure to use it properly.)

Last season GoJo was the minnow/target and during the course of the season got slightly bigger than WRCo. enough to offer a takeover of most of it (with ATN spun off). He’s now obviously big/rich enough to just swallow up the whole thing while paying a premium. So his ego has just gotten bigger. Also, not sure he was…

Significant blood loss with do that to you.

Thank you for sharing this. I’ll add it to my list of places I want to visit.

-He told you that?

Except she said more money would give him the win, and he took her advice on the two women from Waystar to keep. He ultimately delivered on those things. Further she wasn’t actually drinking and she did not actually snort any coke. She was on fire and in control.

Agreed. I think Shiv handled herself well, and maybe Matsson was impressed with her, and maybe-maybe the blood story is real, but more than anything I think he’s just looking for a back channel he can dump the minute the deal is signed.

This may have been Shiv’s finest moments. Last week having all but force to agree to let the brothers take the dual corporate leadership, and totally off her game, she triumphed in just 12 hours. I thought Snook looked physically different, her face void of angst and instead she was a Bond girl: cool, seductive and…