![]() If he wants to ward off this regulatory business, he’ll need to stop by her party. Shiv agrees, knowing it won’t go over well with Tom, but at least she has some juicy intel to give her new best pal, Lukas. ![]() Waystar Jesus, as Shiv calls her brother, uses the breakfast meeting to ask a favor: He and Roman want Shiv to invite Nate Sofrelli to the election party, where they hope to corner the young political operative (who also happens to be Shiv’s former lover) and use him to stir up regulatory roadblocks for Matsson. Instead, Kendall meets with his siblings over Logan’s funeral arrangements and the plan of attack for Lukas Matsson, who hasn’t taken the Living+ stock bump bait and is still hanging around to execute the GoJo deal. She walks away, her only directive seeming to echo into the opening credits: C all your daughter, Kendall. Also, by the way, he is working across “six continents,” thank you very much, “breaking my back, and it’s all for them.” Rava, bless her, knows this song and dance, and all she can do is laugh. Kendall fully explodes, not so much out of outrage on behalf of Sophie but because he blames Rava for not being with her. A guy wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the ATN Nazi news anchor Ravenhead pushed his daughter on the street, and, Rava continues, “she felt it was racially tinged, and she’s been upset.” Kendall strips off his sunglasses, and it’s difficult to parse how much of his instant, almost comical concern is authentic and how much is artifice. She tries, anyway, and then warns him of an incident with their daughter, Sophie, who doesn’t want to go to school because she’s “freaked out” about the election. Kendall meets with his ex-wife, Rava, outside a coffee shop, where he’s completely incapable of accepting the brief, condoling touch she offers him. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to playīrilliantly, the camera then cuts to the fallout of a different marriage, one we’ve spent much less overall time observing. All is not well, but it’s not objectively terrible either, right? They could be happy. They’re having near-constant sex as they prepare to co-host the evening’s election party, and Democratic nominee Jimenez is polling ahead of ATN’s candidate of choice, the bluntly fascist Mencken. But there’s a curious, if suspicious, tenor of hope that soars above the opening scenes, in which Tom delivers his bride breakfast and gifts her with a scorpion paperweight. Given everything we already know about how this couple operates (or, perhaps, fails to operate), we should be expecting them to snap at any moment. Turns out “Bitey” was just a precursor to the real carnage.Īs with so many of Succession’s best and most heart-rending scenes, the inelegant fight between Shiv and Tom near the end of “Tailgate Party” does not seem like a foregone conclusion at the episode’s beginning. Now, with the airing of episode 7 of Succession’s stupendous fourth and final season, the damage is officially irreversible. There was always something putrid coating the arteries of Shiv and Tom’s unorthodox marriage, but it always seemed possible-if not probable-that the poison might be flushed out.
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