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Breaking Down the Offer: What Kendall and Roman Accept in Succession

Yesterday Siobhan Roy was sad. Today Shiv smiles

Breaking Down the Offer: What Kendall and Roman Accept in Succession
Chema Carvajal Sarabia

Chema Carvajal Sarabia

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Yesterday, episode 5 of Succession season 4 premiered and what happened caught us off guard. Kendall and Roman running the company, negotiating to the breaking point, and with Shiv behind pulling strings with whoever has the money.

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Last week, Logan Roy’s only daughter suffered a figurative and literal fall. She watched her siblings ascend to her father’s CEO chair, while she sat in limbo, wondering if Kendall and Roman would keep their promise to honor the siblings’ equal status.

Coupled with her doctor’s “good news” about her nearly five-month embryo and Tom Wambsgans’ manipulative reassurances (in hopes of keeping his job), it was a difficult day. It looked like Shiv was going to lose relevance.

The woman who rules in the shadows: Shiv Roy

Yesterday. Or yesterday. Today, Shiv smiles again. She smiles when she walks into his brothers’ joint office to plan his crucial trip to see Lukas Matsson.

She laughs on the plane when Kendall offers to “cut Tom’s throat” and even smiles a pleasant smile when Lukas greets her with a sexual harassment joke.

Shiv is loose and confident and ready for Royco to sneak into GoJo’s corporate retreat in a way that her siblings are not, despite “fighting ogres to the death” in preparation for their big negotiation.

So it should come as no surprise that by the end of the episode, she’s the only sister still smiling. Even when Roman has nearly come to blows with Lukas hours earlier.

Yes, technically, Kendall and Roman get what they set out to do. More, even. They get a bid five points above Lukas’ initial figure and a whopping $48 above their own target.

The fact that the proposal includes ATN, a segment Logan originally intended to keep, is troubling to the departed patriarch’s most loyal members, but that doesn’t stop everyone from toasting on the plane.

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Right now the series is heading to a place we saw coming and where we don’t have much information to place our bets. We’ll see what they surprise us with.

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Chema Carvajal Sarabia

Chema Carvajal Sarabia

Journalist specialized in technology, entertainment and video games. Writing about what I'm passionate about (gadgets, games and movies) allows me to stay sane and wake up with a smile on my face when the alarm clock goes off. PS: this is not true 100% of the time.

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