This is a 9 episode season, so Succession Season 3 Episode 8 was the penultimate episode.
Next week is the finale. The majority of this episode was about relationships, but it also
spoke to the succession battle as well as the business. And of course, it ended with
a major cliffhanger. Let’s begin by quickly touching on the various
relationships, starting with Greg. Comfry gave Greg a kiss on the cheek. She
may actually like him. So what does he do, he begins hitting on the contessa, which is
the Italian word for a countess. Roman also hit on the contessa and told Greg to stay
away. Since the wedding took place in Italy, who knows if we ever see her again, but if
so, there may be drama between Greg and Roman. That would be pretty funny.
But that’s the least of Roman’s concerns. Roman is obsessed with Gerri. He tired getting
dirt on her husband, and at the board meeting, he tried to send her another dirty pic despite
the fact that she had asked him to stop doing that. In poetic fashion, Logan sent Roman
a very similar text as Gerri had sent him, so Roman accidentally sent the picture to
his father. And real quick, why is Roman’s phone background
a sexy picture of his sister? Anyway, in their 1 on 1, Logan politely asked
Roman: “What happened to that piece of tail you were with?” “Tabitha? She’s amazing.
We’re having some issues.” So yeah. Roman has issues. Big time.
Connor still wants to be president. And investigative reporters are looking for dirt on his girlfriend
Willa. It seemed as if Connor was about to break up with her. But instead, he proposed
to her. It makes sense. In the last episode, she defended him twice, and it turned him
on. He loves Willa. She did not say yes to the proposal, and she
didn’t say no either. But she kind of said no. Who knows? Maybe Willa has a thing for
the creepy Waystar Royco investor, Ron Petkus. And yes, I’m being sarcastic. Bad jokes
aside, I’m curious whether the Connor and Willa stuff is just fun filler or if it will
play into any of the subplots. Maybe the DOJ investigation for instance. They keep saying
that it’s all but done, which leads me to believe that it may not actually be done.
And don’t forget. Tom warned Kendal that he has the feeling he is going to get screwed.
And Logan told Tom that he won’t forget what he did. So it begs the question. Will
Kendal get screwed by Logan in terms of the DOJ?
Last, but not least, let’s talk about Shiv, and then we will discuss the business moves
and the ending. Shiv had a great scene with her mother. They
both feel as if the other has abandoned them. And they both have excuses for why they did
what they did. One thing is for sure, there’s still a spark of mother-daughter love between
them. But the primary purpose of their conversation appears to have been to set up the scene with
Tom. Shiv’s mother told Shiv that she wouldn’t
be a good mother, so Shiv went to Tom and said they should have a baby. That was a nice
callback to Tom trying to have a baby before going to jail. Shiv asked Tom to talk dirty,
and he didn’t know what to do, so he awkwardly asked her to talk dirty. And she did. She
told him that she didn’t love him. Unfortunately, that hit close to home. So the next morning,
Tom raised his concerns. And Shiv’s responses were not great. Shiv clearly does not love
Tom the way that he loves her. Their relationship is just transactional to her.
And speaking of transactions, let’s talk about GoJo Go.
Lukas Mattson sent out some cryptic tweets. Tweets that teeter on the edge of what is
and what is not allowed to be discussed public during times when a company is in merger and
acquisitions discussions So Roman went to Lukas’s beautiful home to chat, and although
I’m probably way off here, it almost seemed as if Lukas wanted to bang Roman. But let’s
put that aside. Lukas is smart. He’s obsessed with coding, and he doesn’t like people.
He’s very unique. But it became very clear in this episode that Lukas is not a pushover.
GoJo Go’s stock price climbed on the back of his tweets. GoJo’s market cap is nearly
as big as Waystar Royco. To be clear, that just means that the value of its shares are
nearly as big as the value of Waystar’s shares. So basically, Lukas does not want
to be acquired anymore. He wants to it to be a merger of equals. And he mentioned firing
people quarterly. However, Logan made a good point. There’s no such thing as equals.
There’s always a top dog. The question is: which side will be the top dog?
So that’s one of the ongoing business subplots. Lukas is attempting to merge as equals. That
factors into the another subplot. The Succession Battle. Earlier in the season, Shiv got a
deal done with Sandi. So Sandi’s side has four seats. And the Roy’s have four seats.
But if they were to merge with GoJo, and split the board 50% with GoJo Go, then the Roy’s
would be down to 25% of the board seats. That is very concerning for Waystar’s non-family
executives since they would lose power and may even be fired due to redundancy. It is
concerning to the Roy kids as well. Their family is losing influence in the company.
And as that happens, they continue to fight amongst themselves.
As an example, on back of Roman’s mishap, Shiv pounced. She reminded Logan that there
are rumors of Roman’s personal trainer giving him hand jobs. Logan heard her out, kicked
her out of the room and then called in Roman. Meanwhile, Shiv encouraged Gerri to file a
formal complaint against Roman. Shiv isn’t actually concerned about Gerri or the company,
Shiv appears to be solely focused on climbing the ranks by knocking down her brother. So
basically, the family continues to cannibalize itself as they slowly sell off their power
in the company to others. Granted, they don’t have majority control of the board anymore.
And Sandy’s side is not happy that the Roy’s pursued GoJo Go on their own. So due to the
elevated price, only time will tell if the GoJo Go deal goes through or if the legacy
conglomerate remains as such. And don’t forget that Shiv told
Tom that she is going to find a bigger and better deal than GoJo Go.
Now, the ending. Logan did not want to interact with his son
Kendal. But Kendal was the bigger man, so he invited his father to dinner. Logan was
delusional. He was so worried that Kendal was trying to poison him that he made Kendal’s
child, his own grandson, try the food first. Logan is a sad, sad little man. Kendal was
shocked, telling his dad that he will be broken when his dad dies. And then it got even worse.
And keep in mind, Logan’s ex-wife said this about him: “He never saw anything he loved
that he didn’t want to kick it just to see if it would come back.”
So it is implied that Logan still loves Kendal. He kicked him to see if Kendal would come
back. But he kicked him one too many times. Now Kendal wants out of the family business.
Kendal said he won’t even speak at Logan’s funeral.
Unfortunately, Logan’s buyout offer only last 7 days. And now, Logan won’t let Kendal
go. To make matters worse, Kendal said that although he loves his father, he is evil.
That he doesn’t want to be like him because he believes himself to be a good guy. And
like any good father would do, Logan reminded Kendal of the boy who drowned. Then, we got
the final pool scene. It has been noted several times this season
that Kendal has been neglecting his children. But he brought them to his mother’s wedding.
Unfortunately, both of them got bored and went inside, leaving Kendal and his beer all
alone at the pool. We don’t know whether or not Kendal did
any drugs or not, but either way, Kendal passed out and his head fell face first into the
water. There were bubbles, which means Kendal has exhaled. When he breathes in next, Kendal
will be breathing in water. A nod back to the boy who drowned at Shiv’s wedding. And
don’t forget … Comfry told Kendal that a podcast is currently looking into that boy’s
death. “How long was that kid alive before he started
sucking in water?”