This will be a short entry, as from here on out, based on my belief that Kendall has been the main character for the entire series, I will only point out what matters in that regard.
It’s still very possible that someone else has an ace up their sleeve, but at the end of this episode Kendall had pushed his sister out by promising her that she would be equal. (She immediately understood this lie as soon as it was announced that Kendall and Roman would be co-chiefs.) (I’m suddenly remembering an episode of The Office where the brilliant (haha) David Wallace decided that Dunder-Mifflin should have two co-managers. Oscar, the only smart person in that place made a joke, “Yes, what country doesn’t have two presidents? How about the two Popes?” — something to that effect.)
Anyway, once Shiv was shivved by Kendall and Rom, the announcement was made by the board of directors and everyone knew before the opening bell of Wall Street on Monday, Kendall made his next shiv. This time it was to tarnish his father’s image by using soft (Trump would call it “fake”) media to spread the rumor that his father was losing it and his children had been making all the decisions. This went against everything that Ken’s brother believed, so this was a power move, ultimately, against Roman. He hasn’t knifed him well enough, and he now has an enemy in his sister, but it’s a start.
The next episode will see how well they can stand up to the Viking. And the ending credit music, by the way, was absolutely spectacular. I hope the writer of the music makes an orchestral piece of it. The opening music is good, but it’s just bing da bing da bing da bing da. The end credits was worth a listen on its own.
I actually enjoyed this episode because so much of this happened when my dad died in 2002, (21 years ago). Some guys who had been his investors had brought paperwork for my mom to sign the day after he died. A single day they waited. I saw them come in with their manila envelope and approach my mom and tell her she needed to sign some papers dealing with the business. She was in mourning, trying to “entertain” at a wake, and these papers that they had her sign were papers that turned her shares into non voting shares, which gave them the power to run the companies he owned as they saw fit. It put her into a passive role which she could nothing about. I remember wanting to get up and stop her from signing them, but I was also so confused about my position in the family and my relationship to both my mother and father, I decided against action. If I had acted at that moment and stopped her from signing the papers, we might have avoided 5 to 10 years of lawsuits. But, in my defense, my mom would have told me to go away and she would have signed them not to “cause any trouble,” just the same way she accepted the Beckett family’s offer of $400k for my dad’s 30% of Beckett Gas, a company that my dad predicted would be worth 50 million in 20 years. Guess what? It’s worth 50 million. He was very smart.
OOOfff. This became a diary entry. Oh well. Maybe it’ll get picked up by google and will appear on page 1123 of their search results.