Honeymoon States
- Episode aired Apr 16, 2023
- TV-MA
- 59m
As the Waystar team discusses a pivotal recommendation to the board, Roman, Kendall, and Shiv navigate a misstep with Matsson.As the Waystar team discusses a pivotal recommendation to the board, Roman, Kendall, and Shiv navigate a misstep with Matsson.As the Waystar team discusses a pivotal recommendation to the board, Roman, Kendall, and Shiv navigate a misstep with Matsson.
Storyline
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- TriviaFirst episode Kendall is seen wearing a Richard Mille RM67-01
- Quotes
Kendall Roy: Is it real, Frank?
Frank Vernon: I don't know.
Kendall Roy: My dad wanted me to take over?
Frank Vernon: Well, sometimes.
[Chuckles]
Frank Vernon: You know that, he did. Sometimes.
Kendall Roy: He made me hate him, then he died. I feel like he didn't like me.
Frank Vernon: Oh.
Kendall Roy: I disappointed him.
Frank Vernon: No. No. Come on. We think these grand horror things at times like these, these ice shelves are gonna come at us in the night and take our heads off. It's not true. He was an old bastard. And he loved you. He loved you.
Kendall Roy: You think?
Frank Vernon: I think so.
With this episode, It finally feels like the show is attempting an answer, what is this show: what have we been watching?
This episode gives the feeling that the whole show has actually been about Kendall. Given that it had a rather open-ended storytelling so far it's rather natural that it does not provide a definitive answer, it could still go in any direction. Yet there are a number of elements that lead to the show in general being Kendall's succession arc. He started as the presumptive heir and it took him that much time and efforts to rise-up to that actual position. To self-actualise in some way. A fall-rise(-fall?) arc of sorts and we are finally seeing him becoming the killer his father wanted him to be in the very first episode of season one. It also makes sense in the way the show has always showed us a more intimate side of Kendall which it has not done for any of the other children. We've seen his inner thought more than any other character's.
This episode also strengthens the argument against the social commentary, the political satire and the business aspect of the story. They're present but in reality none of them hardly matter. The real core of the show is that dialogue the three children have around the coffee table, that is what we are watching. The rest, the side meeting of the executives in the kitchen or the library, the snarky comments from Greg, Connors antics, those are all side-shows. They're fluff and flavour. The real engines are those characters of Kendall, Shiv and Roman. Logan is the most important person in that world. But even though his overbearing presence is felt even when he is not in the room with them it turns out the story isn't about Logan, . It might well evolve into something else, but as now it is about the realtionship between Kendall and Logan.
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- Apr 18, 2023
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- Runtime59 minutes
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- 1.78 : 1