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They’ll surely crash in the end, but the bros somehow nailed it this episode

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They were both embarrassingly incompetent in the negotiations with Matsson. Attempting to lie about him at the beginning of this episode was also pathetic. It came across so unbelievably weak and incompetent that they seemed like children, probably why Shiv related it to their youth.

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Kendall was a manic mess this entire episode, dropping inane corporate lingo word salad that didn't even make sense while running on a weird manic high. He was about to commit blatant fraud and make a national joke out of himself if both Roman and Karl hadn't made him pull himself back at the last possible minute. His decision making is erratic and borderline delusional. He fell arse backwards into a decent win for the moment despite terrible decision making up to that point.

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Roman has been overly emotional and pretending to be Logan by just hastily firing people. He's a nepo baby with zero competence, which is why people don't respect him like they did Logan. I thought the show also tried to make it very clear that firing the well-connected Hollywood executive, when most talent in LA won't work with them due to ATN, was a bad decision.

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He still ultimately nailed it, and all reports are the world loved his pitch. It was a pivot that tons of companies successfully did to get a higher valuation by being linked to tech so it’s not a crazy move by him and appears to be well received

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Gtfo. The show did a good job of showing she’s making crap and lighting money on fire. Like Roman said, his dad would’ve done that. Heads would’ve rolled after they screened the shitty movie she was making. Any studio anywhere can get creatives.

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Kendall was a manic mess this entire episode, dropping inane corporate lingo word salad

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and who Cousin Greg had to dress up as while he was working at the theme park, Brightstar Adventure Park, in the pilot episode.

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I thought this was the best episode this season. Good stuff

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do we know if their interventions caused him to actually change the presentation?

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The problem is not Kendall essentially promising, in a public forum, that the company would soon be able to offer eternal life (though it fits in well with Kendall in his extremely playing-God era right now), but Lukas Matsson – soon to be joint owner of the late Logan Roy’s dynasty – and his tweet responding to his lofty ambitions.

“Doderick Macht Frei,” it reads, extremely offensively, and if the words weren’t enough, Matsson has also found the time to mock up a picture of Doderick the dog, holding balloons, in front of Auschwitz.

“That’s a very nasty joke,” Roman says, and Shiv adds, “That’s what, a holocaust joke?”. Correct, and probably about one of the worst things anyone could say on social media.

The tweet is a play on words of the gates outside the World War II Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz, which bore the lie “Arbeit macht frei”, or “Work will set you free”. According to Auschwitz’s official site, which explains the history of the phrase: “Prisoners marched out through the gate in rows of five each morning…When they returned to camp, the prisoners carried their fellow prisoners who had collapsed from exhaustion or illness, as well as those who had been worked to death or been murdered during the day.”

Matsson is essentially comparing Living+ – a compound/facility for older people, run by Waystar Royco – to a concentration camp, fronted “the family of Waystar’s cherished movie and TV characters”, like Doderick the dog. Doderick, you’ll remember, is the company’s mascot; star of the fictional kids film (“Doderick and Friends coming this spring!”, promises a poster at Investor Day earlier in this episode) and who Cousin Greg had to dress up as while he was working at the theme park, Brightstar Adventure Park, in the pilot episode.

However the character quickly gets attacked by children when a stoned Greg is out for a stroll in the park (and putting on the dog’s high-pitched voice), and he ends up vomiting through Doderick’s eyeballs.

What were the other tweets about Kendall’s speech saying?

Aside from Matsson’s abhorrent tweet (which, when called out by Shiv later on, he later deleted), otherwise, the general public seemed pretty pumped by the idea of Living+, and, even more so, by the offer of eternal lifem even if it is fronted by a cartoon dog.

On a screenshot of Hugo’s phone, above and under Matsson’s tweet, other comments read:

“Presentation today was totally compelling. I’m going long on KR”; “What would you say to an offer of immortality? I’d say yes fricking please dog. Even if the offer was from a talking dog” and “Who wants to live forever? Me! I’m in! #LivingPlus #Yesplease.”

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