Succession Episode 5 Review: This is the Showdown of the General Meeting of Shareholders

We all highlighted ours in red that day succession-The weeks-long diary of brand executives is finally here-It’s time to hold the Waystar Royco shareholder meeting, which is between the L team and OG (An Roy) and Team Hostile Takeover (also known as Sandy’n’Stewy) The biggest skirmish so far in the battle for agency rights.To commemorate the occasion with a proper ceremony, I put on my most polite turtleneck pullover; meanwhile, Logan wore orthopedic moon boots after falling. In last week’s episode, hiking around Josh Aaronson’s Hampton Manor.

Negotiations with Sandy (Larry Pine) and Sweet (Arian Moyed) are deadlocked. It seems that everyone will be at a deadlock soon. Tom (Matthew McFadien) happily Turn it, and quickly “climb on the voting boat” and make a decision to shareholders. When everyone knows that Logan (Brian Cox) and Kendall (Jeremy Strong) are still fighting, can Royce win the majority? It seemed like a hard no, Shiv (Sarah Snook) was terrified.

Naturally, Kendall appeared, No This time he used speakers and set up his war room in another anonymous suite, which he incredibly named the “Headquarters of Tag Resistance.” His first task was his daughter’s phone call, complaining that her nanny would not allow her to feed bagels to her new pet rabbit. Executive level business (spoiler alert-this laissez-faire attitude towards carbohydrates will not have good results for rabbits)! His former friend Stewy came to visit him, and it had no real purpose other than to use a rigorous but accurate assessment to stimulate Ken to wake up the role of his performance. “You shouldn’t yell’is the time up?’ on a rainbow soap box somewhere?” he asked.

Encouraged by this light roasting, Stewy and Geri (J. Smith-Cameron) and various Waystar servants (Logan refused the invitation and refused to “tap” for his enemies) as well as Sandy and his daughter Sandi Meet (hope Davis). Since the last time we saw him, Sandy’s health has dropped sharply, and he can only speak through Sandy. Roman (Kieran Culkin) never stood on tiptoe and asked bluntly if she regarded her father as a “meat puppet”-for a moment his eyes stayed on them for too long, as if he saw two People have unwelcome views of their future.

Sandy and his colleagues are not very demanding. They only require multiple board seats and veto power, which allows them to refuse any Roy family member to take over the company. Somehow, Shiv managed to persuade them to give up their veto, and the summit ended with a (very) provisional agreement — or the parties agreed to consult their lawyers, but Shiv seemed to mark it as a victory.When she told Gerri, her complacency went beyond the chart she Good news will be announced to Logan (“He is my dad, so…”).

At the same time, Connor (Alan Luke) Has decided that he needs to “sand [his] Before becoming the leader of the free world, he needs a Waystar job that shines like his siblings. Before the key shareholder meeting, there is no time for crazy moments like asking your father to do some nepotism for you, right, Kang?However, his actions paid off because Logan was not completely disagree When his eldest son suggested that he could supervise the European cable television department. Last week, Shiv offered him a glass of show wine on Waystar’s food network, which is of course an improvement-but it may also be the first sign that Logan is not going well.

Cousin Greg shoots from all angles. Kendall not only admitted that he might have to “burn” his former lackey and hand him over to the Department of Justice to advance their investigation until “someone betrayed Dad”-unless, that is, he dropped out of Waystar’s joint law Defense plan and updated his Team Kendall membership card. To make matters worse, his grandfather and Pugh got together. Pugh was a Dickens lawyer hired by Greg and was presumably fired when he decided to return to Waystar. The angry grandson rejoined Logan’s “a bunch of greedy crooks”. Grandpa told Greg that he thought he had been deprived of the right to inheritance. Pugh was preparing paperwork, presumably writing on parchment with a quill to ensure Greenpeace The organization can get the last cent.

Returning to Camp Roy, the mood was a kind of premature celebration, until Sandy’s phone call introduced a final condition-to get rid of the private jet. For a group of billionaires, this is as good as you might expect, but Shiv and Gerri are willing to take the blow to save the company. However, the increasingly weird Logan refused to give his consent and instead asked Tom, who wandered around his father-in-law like a melancholy housekeeper, to accompany him to the toilet. “Thank you, son,” Logan said when Tom helped him out of the cubicle. Although it was obvious that he was useless at all, Vamsgans briefly lit up. In the end, the approval of his father that Tom always wanted-Logan had to be delirious to express it, which was a shame.

His assistant revealed that Logan had a urinary tract infection, and if he didn’t take medicine, he would soon be confused. Perhaps this is why he offered Kang a good job in the London office. Logan is in this state, can his family risk pushing him to shareholders? “Send him to a trapdoor surrounded by dry ice,” Connor suggested.

Now are two terrible times. Kendall rushed into the family suite and asked to know what happened to his father, just as Logan’s bodyguard Colin’s task was to take out an imaginary dead cat from under his chair (“That’s an imaginary cat, Get out now!” Romain shouted). Then the president called and revealed that ATN’s brutal reports on his health had persuaded him not to run for a second term. Connor was the only one to celebrate-Logan called him a “raisin”, which could have helped them get rid of the US Department of Justice investigation.

Shiv sneaked into a humble hotel corridor to negotiate a crisis with Sandi, and agreed to the private jet terms before playing the female boss card, implying that it would be so It’s great to have a like-minded person join the board before giving her an extra seat (as long as Shiv also has one). Business woman! This is a transaction-the vote is cancelled. Prompt Kendall to run onto the stage to hijack the meeting. Is he going to perform a diss version of L for OG? No, he would read the names of women affected by the Waystar #MeToo scandal in an extremely boastful way, while “not even wearing a tie”, as the frightened Tom pointed out. “He looks crazy, which is good for us,” said Karolina (Dagmara Dominczyk), Waystar’s first public relations guru.

The acquisition has temporarily come to an end. Of course is it time to celebrate? Not for Logan, when she tried to dig out the smallest compliment from him, she poured a glass of champagne on the savior Schiff. However, the situation may be worse. Kendall was called to a room where he was told that his father would meet him there—until the long-suffering Jace showed up and told him Logan had actually left the building. When Kenny called him, Logan handed his mobile phone to his assistant and told her to “block this number. Forever.”

So, he and the Sandy family will not take over Waystar for the time being, but they have successfully concluded a very important deal, which seems to make Logan very angry-honestly, it seems to be very important to this person. In addition, it is very important. Glad to see someone (others) shrink Kendall (“Save it to Vanity Fair!” he interjected when his former friend started talking about his progressive values). Please say more.

Last week, Greg was looking for a trendy job in a theme park, and I’m pretty sure he thinks it’s like a roller coaster tycoon. Now, Kendall has voluntarily made him a tribute to the Hunger Games of the U.S. Department of Justice, and his grandfather has completely deprived him of his inheritance rights. After he discovered that it was impossible to sue someone “in an affectionate way,” he now sets his sights on… suing Greenpeace.

None of the Roys performed well in this episode (except perhaps Connor, who managed to use his father’s temporary delusion to find a lightning-fast new job) but it is increasingly clear that Kendall is free In a state of falling body, his acquisition attempts have been almost completely marginalized. He was definitely a powerful participant in the conspiracy of the shareholders meeting and had to break into the stage during the PowerPoint presentation to get some air time. Now his father blocked his call. Kendall, how are you?

The most tense animal storyline: Sophie’s Rabbit

First, Jess had to introduce the rabbit to Kendall’s children through FaceTime and put the iPad in its cage. Now, despite the advice of the nanny, now the poor creature is feeding bagels according to his orders. cake. Thoughts and prayers to the rabbit, and Kendall’s doctor (“If he can be a human, he can be a rabbit”)

The most worrying relationship development: Tom’s “Shadow Journal”

Tom has started tracking Schiff’s menstrual period to determine when she is most likely to conceive, because he thinks it would be good to have a baby in time before the end of his supposed prison sentence. Shiv rightly felt scared.

This week the scene was crowded (I especially like Roman’s low-key belittle about his brother’s arrival, he told Connor “It’s so important that You are Here,” and he referred to Tom as “Poirot the Pissing Hercules”) but Tom only managed to get ahead through his confusion about Greg’s upcoming court battle: “Are you going to sue Greenpeace? Save the Children, who do you think you are looking for next? “

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