re: Succession Alert

I didn’t hate the ending, but I was rooting for Kendall. I hate Shiv so much. I wished they would’ve kept her in the dark about Tom just to watch her get destroyed by the guy she’s shite on for years.

In the end I think it’s kind of a lesson on self preservation. Ken was trying everything he could and so was Shiv. I hate that she kinda won in a sense.

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I do think the 1 minute where Kendall is ceo and acting like a jackass played a part in reminding shiv who she is dealing with. He was always pretty bad in the board room.

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Exactly what I took away from it. The night before, for that one time, they acted like normal siblings. They were at a safe place at mom's house away from the business and everybody else. Shiv was done, Roman would have done whatever, and Kendall was finally acting like a "serious person" about the CEO role. So Shiv and Roman gave up their battles and said ok Kendall it's you. The family acted like a family in the kitchen, playful silly behavior, mom came down the stairs and told them to quiet down, Roman being Roman licking the cheese, making that gross shake, pouring it on Kendall, etc. As soon as they got back to that boardroom they went back to cutthroat. Kendall went back to his CEO Bro bullshite, and Shiv remembered why she hated him. He was gloating and she hated that he'd won. Roman remembered what Ken had done in the past and finally spilled it to Shiv and that cemented her vote

I also think Ken definitely jumped in the ocean. We'd seen him pass out in the pool with his face in the water, we saw him swimming in the ocean at the end of another episode, then we saw him swim out to the dock by himself in this episode. Seems to make sense that with him staring at the ocean he was going in after the episode ended

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I don't think Shiv's change of heart was well explained. After she learned Tom was gonna be CEO, she was even more motivated to stop the deal. So it couldn't have been that she wanted Tom over Kendall as the reason for her flip-flop. And then nothing happened between Shiv and Kendall between the beach decision and her walking out of the boardroom to change her mind either.

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IDK why it doesn’t make sense to most of you. It makes perfect sense. There’s a little bit of, yeah Tom will be it. But mostly, Shiv just didn’t feel like he deserved it and he didn’t. None of them deserved it. That was the point. It becomes another public company just like any other. The board would have had shareholder lawsuits for voting no on that deal.

I don’t think Shiv was all in at their mom’s. She was kind of in a cloud of unity with Roman’s injury. But really Shiv and Roman both didn’t want him to have it. That’s the whole point.

I loved the ending. So glad none of the kids got the company. They didn’t deserve it.

Some people just need to go back and re-watch the show. Connor and Shiv were not in favor of Kendall being CEO from the beginning.

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He wanted out by the very end and seems most likely to be content with a playboy billionaire lifestyle lacking professional ambition.

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I think he accepted his fate when he was in the bar, but a few minutes before that he was crying in Kendall’s arms saying “why couldn’t it be me?”

I think all the kids didn’t really know what they wanted because they’re not serious people. Kendall was ready to be CEO of a company he tried to frick last season because it was a dinosaur. Shiv wanted to be CEO but she also wanted to be a mom, and a better one than her own. Roman wanted to phone in his vote at the board meeting but the night before he said that Logan wanted it to be him. Lots of examples.

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Succession Alert by Civildawg
Tom was the only one willing to step up and go to jail for the company

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Well he did destroy criminal evidence when head of cruises, or directed Hreg to do it. And he only agreed because he was scared of Logan and Logan offered to take care of him financially. He wasn't being altruistic. He's a weak boot-licker, that's the only reason he got the CEO job.

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Well that’s more than what any of the kids would have done

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True, Kendall was supposed to take the fall but went full whistleblower instead.

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Tom was the only one willing to step up and go to jail for the company. He was also the only one that actually did some type of actual work. He deserved it in my opinion

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My feelings exactly

I also feel that shiv was thinking of the child, and their heir to the throne/succession. Loved the season and the ending. As Kendall would say "they fricking nailed it bro"

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I think he accepted his fate when he was in the bar, but a few minutes before that he was crying in Kendall’s arms saying “why couldn’t it be me?”

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I think him crying in Kendall’s arms was his accepting it. Making much ado about that eyebrow cut being opened wasn’t a coincidence. Roman realized he is damaged goods and was lamenting why he couldn’t have been normal or given a normal shot at life. Of course Kendall is arguably just as abnormal in his own way, but completely in denial, hence him claiming he made up the dead wedding employee etc.