How fucked is it though that shivs choice was between Kendall and Tom like. You can have your brother-father or you can have your husband-father but either way you are never escaping your father
that last tom and greg interaction …… i could write paragraphs. greg’s last slimy conniving move was another attempt to get in on a family venture and be a quad with his cousins and when that backfires the person who welcomes him back is tom the outsider. tom who knows exactly who greg is, underhanded backstabbing and all, and accepts and cares for him anyway. tom who brought stickers from logan’s apartment just so he could do a bit. greg has only gotten worse and he’ll never face any consequences but it doesn’t matter because tom’s in his corner unconditionally. it’s unbelievable
i’m so beyond thankful to jesse armstrong and his team for making the decision to end it on a high and give us an insanely good 40 hours of unparalleled tv rather than ride the high and drag it out. there are so few shows where fans can objectively say that the show had a good ending but oh my god. i’m going to chew on the enclosure of my container because i still can’t believe we got this fucking rare gem of a show for four seasons straight.
and of COURSE it ended pointing “no real person involved” pointing back at the Roys. Tom the winner being an empty fucking suit. Roman admitting they are ALL bullshit they are not real they are hollow. Kendall confessing if he’s not CEO he is nothing. Shiv reduced to a human vote and a wife and a mother. Greg literally getting bought like a piece of antique furniture. None of them are real people because they never were to Logan!!!!!
The completion of the Nero and Sporus arc was so perfectly written.
Greg couldn’t just be “financially castrated” for it to fit narratively — he had to lose all personal and political influence that wasn’t already owned by Tom. Greg completely reliant on him. He’s been castrated and reduced to the role Tom assigns him. He was literally claimed as a possession by the end of the series and he was happy about it.
Tom didn’t so much push Shiv down the stairs as gently guide her down until the person she was before lay dead at the bottom. The person she is now is not the person she was at the beginning of the series.
And Tom? Our Nero? He’s the Puppet Emperor. He’s gotten everything he’s ever wanted. He has claimed the keys to the kingdom and he couldn’t be happier.