Ken REALLY stepped up here. First made sure Rome was fine, then decided to go up there unprepared, wiling the risk of humiliation, because he knew people were watching, especially Menken and Mattson as well as the old guard and media! And MY GOD DID HE DELIVER! I love how he both acknowledged and subtly called out Ewan for his hypocrisy, indirectly telling him that he was just as bad as his brother but at least their dad had guts to get things done - Damn! You can see Ewan looking away in that moment. Also, I loved when he said "He made me and my three siblings" - not two but three! Saying aloud that the Roys stick together and Caroline's immediate shot after that is so telling of her - always the absent mother that can never be happy! I wish I could hear what she whispered (Any ideas guys?). Rome really went down in flames in this episode - that pre-grieving sh** doesn't work I guess. I am SOO EXCITED for the finale - I have a strong feeling that all the Roys will go down badly! No winners in this game but my hope is for Ken to finally get his chance at the top job like he always wanted to - It'd a full circle for his character!
Agree on all parts but one. Caroline’s response is worse than you are seeing. She is a narcissist with BPD. She looked down annoyed because Ken acknowledge Logan for “making” them. She suffered narcissistic injury with the comment because Logan got the credit and she didn’t. She is so much worse than an absentee mother who can’t be happy. She is as toxic as Logan was. It’s a miracle the kids turned out as well as they did despite them all being riddled with CPTSD and absolutely destroyed as humans.
My read on this is two-fold: logan was every bit the fuck up that kendall was, and just as much a product of abuse. He also succeeded because he was as much the shrewd businessman and bully as he was a puppet to social/economic forces much bigger than himself. My guess is that Kendall must fail catastrophically before sitting on the throne, sit on it, and quickly realize that he's there at the behest of the force of capital.
@@KingMinosxxvi Tom's reputation and career is dead because of the Mencken call. That was the purpose of the scene where he is in his office instead of going to the funeral. He was afraid of being attacked by an angry mob. Greg even told him last episode "there's a lot of important people that want to scream at you right now" and begged Greg to tell Mencken it was him who made the call to try and salvage something.
@@chrishernandez3699 what? The deal is that Menken will be able to stop the deal...so therefore...hello..that's why he wants people and Menken to know...he wants his picture bigger in the paper which by the way would show that the ultimate decision was Kendall's
Leave it to Shiv to need to get up there and try to steal some of Ken’s limelight and thunder with the last word. 🤦🏼♀️ Ken thrives under pressure that isn’t family or emotionally related. He did it at the SEC Hearings. At Living+. Here tenfold. He knows the company and is the only Roy who ever was truly involved. Roman and Shiv are not worthy. So even if they got CEO somehow, they would fail at the helm. And this is all presuming the Board would even elect one of them. This isn’t a unilateral decision they can make. Also anyone saying Greg - an Administrative Assistant to the guy who only just got clout at ATN - is on the throne at the end is ludicrous. It’s a multi billion dollar publicly traded heavily regulated multinational conglomerate that needs Board approval to sneeze. Jess has a better chance at CEO than Greg.
The writers did roman dirty EDIT: Alot of these responses aren't inaccurate, but they still don't take away from the fact that the writers did roman dirty.
@@idglet9565 I agree, it'd be different if his character traits and so many past events (specifically earlier this season) wasn't telegraphing his breakdown..... ever since Logan's death alone, this guy's been like the walking Hindenberg waiting to happen
