Succession Power Rankings: “Hanna-Barbera Business School”
Ranking the Roys after 405, “Kill List”
No Friday post this week because I was on vacation :)
There’s a field trip this week for the Waystar Royco C-Suite, with the mains making a last minute trip to Norway to see the Swede. Is it a test or a squeeze? The jets are chartered to a retreat of GoJo’s “insular weird brutal motherfuckers,” and no one knows what to expect. Confederacy of Dunces …. Sweetheart I think you mean circlejerk of dunces. Here’s where we stand after 405, “Kill List.”
Lukas Matsson
Roman’s talk about grinding down … baby … well! This sexy ass Bigfoot. “On the offer, I am what I am what I am,” Matsson says mid-episode, leveling with the chain of fools (Shiv and Kendall and Roman). He’s pushing hard on the Waystar deal, demanding that ATN be added back to the final pot. The kids wonder if he’s playing them to pay less on the deal with the carveout, or if he wants to buy ATN just to fuck them, or if this is a play at something else. Matsson’s brash plainness is sort of his power…
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