#succession speculation

[holycartoonwarrior]

Predictions for S4: Roman Roy comes out in the Marilyn Monroe nude dress and sings “happy birthday Mr. President” for Mencken

[tomsgreg]

I think it’s time we think about the very real possibility of CEO Greg. Like it’s all shits and giggles, but idk if its a joke anymore and I NEED you to hear me out on this. 

1) Greg is now in Lukas’s inner circle. He’s wiggled his way in and out of all the members of the Roy family/main characters he’s the only one Lukas has taken any interest in besides Shiv, and let’s be real, he’s playing her. He has NO intention of making her CEO. If nothing else gave that away, his Shiv being pregnant as a minus comment is 10000% a red flag.

2) He’s ambitious enough to take the position if it was handed to him. He knows how to play the game well enough to get where he is, but he doesn’t quite know it well enough to get to the REAL top on his own. It would have to be given to him. Which leads me to

3) He’s inexperienced enough that he needs guidance. He’s malleable. Between that and the fact that he’d owe his whole career to Matsson, he’d basically be a meat puppet for the guy. Which is exactly what he wants out of the American CEO.

4) A huge theme of the show is the myth of the American meritocracy. The rich claim they’re where they are because they’re smarter, they worked harder. Taking CEO away from Kendall, Roman, and Shiv, who worked their whole lives hoping to get the top spot, and giving it to Greg because he kissed the right asses at the right time would help drive that point home in the final episode.

[noxdemon]

I think Roman is taking anti-anxiety meds. He is fidgety and low energy, and in the car he complained that the seatbelt was choking him. A side effect of anti-anxiety meds is a sense of emotional blunting, a psychic flatness that limits emotional range. With how monotone he's talking, how he has a lack of reaction to anything, and barely makes any of his usual jokes I think this adds up.

[tedsasso]

ive seen so many posts saying "tomgregs dying" or asking why the writers ruined what they had and like. i get it but. i feel like it had to end up this way. greg was always going to become hungrier and disgusting and consumed, and tom was always going to harden and control him and lash out because theyve been doing this since day 1. like greg is an outlet for tom and tom is a ladder for greg and they are too selfish to ever treat each other as anything else. there is a sentimentalism between the two of them, and they care about each other, but. nowadays, its like never getting rid of something old. you know it doesn't really work, but it used to! and you just can't let it go.

tom needed greg the way a dog needs a chewtoy, and greg needed tom the way a kid needs a stepstool to reach the snack cabinet. but tom has nearly beheaded the chewtoy, stuffing coming out, its covered in his slobber and grime and is near repulsive to play with now. and greg is tall enough on his own, he doesn't need help to get his hands in the water. and yet, occasionally it's the only toy tom can stand to chew on, and sometimes greg convinces himself he needs the extra boost.

[deliciousdietdrpepper]

The parallels between Logan and matsson are insane and the Roy siblings are projecting their daddy issues onto him because of it.

Roman: Hates matsson (Logan) and resents him for forcing him to repress his emotions yet again. He is trapped, in royco, in himself…in the world of expectations and pretense. The dog in the cage. He cannot escape, he cannot get out. Forever gnawing at his own leg and at the chain that binds him. He has exhibited the fawn trauma response towards his dad for so long, has wallowed at his heel, and compressed himself inward so much, that he’s spring loaded and ready to fly. He just wants to bite and kick and scream and get the hell out. I think he’s more alone in that than he realizes.

Shiv: Wants to get into matsson’s (Logan’s) club and maybe fuck around in a distressingly codependent relationship. She doesn’t see the red flags because that’s all she knows, and as long as she’s getting a crumb of respect she’ll keep coming back with hope in her bruised, broken heart. She isn’t naive, but she doesn’t have the self respect to challenge false affection. She needs love. She needs someone TO love, or else, who is she? She has an angry man in her house and I don’t know if he’ll ever leave now.

Kendall: Wants to rule over his own empire of ashes. Wants control. Power. Revenge. To burn the world! 😊 He has control issues because he’s been at the mercy of his dad for so long. Pushed down, again and again and again. Blackmailed and belittled. Now that he has the opportunity to exert his will over the world, I’m a bit scared to see what he’ll do. There’s been a fire building in his belly for a long, long time, and it’s coming to meet us.

[davidbyrne]

Thinking about the two settings to episode three. How important it was to have Logan die in the air, trapped by his wealth in a luxury plane that actually just ends up looking and feeling claustrophobic and then having the kids find out when they’re on a boat, literally, physically as well as emotionally unmoored. Neither party having any control of the situation, the one thing they’ve had all their lives, that money has always been able to buy them. Down to being able to pick the next goddamn president. Death being the great equaliser once again. Jesse is a genius my fucking god

[grammatically-incoherent]

at the end of the day we got a status quo shiv, a (more) broken ken, and

ROMAN SMILING AND SIPPING HIS MARTINI

given kieran culkin's insanely emotional performance this season in particular, i was so goddamn happy to get this little glimpse into roman's new future: lighter, freer, and dare i say... happier ?

#i like to think after he got a little drunk he hit up gerri and she figured fuck it, he's out of the company and officially fuckable and martyn is a stupid name

[rhaenyrastormborn]

If one more of y’all says Roman is gonna die