But he could.Īnd so, Greg winds up desperate for advice - so desperate that he accepts help from Uncle Ewan, who lines him up an attorney (Peter Riegert) who just wants to use Greg and what he knows in a different way than Kendall does: to bring down Waystar Royco and capitalism in general. Greg is starting to realize that Kendall is a pretty dangerous guy to bet on, particularly when Kendall oh-so-subtly reminds Greg that while he isn't going to reveal to the government that Greg gave him the documents he's basing his case against his father on, he could. Gerri is playing it very cool right now, not doing anything too nasty (you have to decide for yourself how much she really believes the kids would be iced out if they teamed up with Kendall versus how much she just wants Roman to stay loyal to her). Roman's vision is that she puts together a team to distribute blame in case anything goes wrong, but he and she will actually be in charge. The detail that Gerri takes a picture of the TV announcing her ascent is really a good one: This means more to her than she's letting on, and certainly more than she let on last season, when she seemed to believe being temporarily in charge was a burden more than anything. He would have done it if they could have done it together - if, as he says, it could have been nice. you know, go for the kiss from daddy.īut maybe most important and most tragic, Connor would have gone for this if his siblings had all been united, if the discussion at Reva's had gone differently. It would make all the sense in the world for Connor to seize this opportunity to get out from under his father, but he can't, because he's too busy seizing the unexpected chance to. Roman and Shiv (and, of course, Kendall) all are scrapping for control of the company, but Connor sees how he can maybe wiggle in there, into his dad's field of vision and approval, given that Kendall is now a pariah. And more than the other kids, Connor sees Kendall's behavior as an opportunity at a personal and familiar level. Nevertheless, Connor is not quite at the point Kendall eventually reached, where his hatred of Logan outweighs his desperate wish that Logan would just love him already. It would be really exciting to him if Kendall were coming around to one of his strange political ideas. The little moment where Kendall says Waystar is a declining empire within a declining empire and Connor says "amen, brother" is so sharp and also bitterly sad, because Kendall is just rambling like a knucklehead (as I said last week, my sense is that he's very high), but for Connor, this is the kind of thing he deeply believes in and loves to hold court about. And weirdly, as Connor has become even a fringe political figure, he's gained allies and an identity that's not reliant on Logan. I've always considered Connor a ticking time bomb, in that you can tell how much he notices (and resents) his father taking him for granted, writing him off, acting like he doesn't matter. The title of this episode, "Mass in Time of War," comes from a 1796 piece by Joseph Haydn that, to quote the program notes from Boston Baroque, carries "a sense of foreboding as Austria and its allies were about to face Napoleon." 30 MPH: Connor Like Shiv and Roman, Tom spends a lot of this week trying to take out his discontent on other people - Greg, in particular, who has been ducking Tom's calls until Tom thinks to call him from a different number. His decision to withhold his "I love you" from Shiv is just another way of trying to get her to give him more reassurance, but it's interesting how unsettling it is to her. Tom is doing what Tom does best: tormenting Greg and desperately wishing for his wife's love. (Shiv saying "unsubscribe" while Kendall unfurls his dopey speech about the end of empires is my choice for the single funniest line of the week.) 49 MPH: Tom Shiv would go along with a team effort here, too, except she can feel that in a way, she will never be part of the team. They laugh it off when she tells Kendall she would only go along with the overthrow if she then became CEO, and they side with Roman when she needles him about Gerri and he gets upset. But Shiv is a pragmatist, and she knows that none of the men in her family intend to cede any ground to her. Shiv is upset about Gerri getting the CEO job over her, and it seems at first that there's a chance she's going to turn on her father. There are times when Connor (Alan Ruck) tries to be a good big brother to Shiv (Sarah Snook), but she's pretty much never into it.
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