pov you're roman roy, and you have a body that has reactions you can't control, and those reactions are pathetic and freakish and prove just how much you've gotten it wrong. you can't laugh, you can't talk, you can't even cry at your father's funeral without everyone seeing what a failure made flesh you are.
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i bring a sort of “hamlet haunted by his father’s ghost” vibe to the interim ceo role that other people don’t really like
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roman roy fails to handle grief and emotion (1568000 fired employees, 533 lawsuits)
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So this is it, huh?
Hmm, yeah. I guess. We gave it a go.
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the thing is, roman wasn't going to give a eulogy about logan roy, his dad. he was going to give a speech about logan roy, his media mogul father.
then ewan happened.
clearly all the logan lore ewan dropped was stuff that kendall, shiv, and roman hadn't heard before. it's why they couldn't look away and listened intently. they were waiting for the moment where they could fully groan and go, 'oh great, here we go' and have someone escort ewan away. but then their jaws kinda dropped. because ewan actually gave an honest and sincere account of their father. ewan is probably one of the few other people in the room who actually knew logan. the person logan. not the media mogul titan logan. and that's why roman couldn't speak afterward. he was about to go onstage and spew a bunch of political, business-related bullshit about his father without actually ever saying anything real (we know this because his entire practice speech was about his dad's accomplishments). ewan came in and destroyed that plan. he forced roman to contend with the reality of his father as a human being, who roman misses very dearly and loved very much.
it wasn't hard to "pre-grieve" a media titan. of course roman was blasé about that. but he never grieved his dad
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it's so heartbreaking how in the first season shiv is pretending so hard that she's uninterested in being a part of the company and that she has her OWN Good Liberal Agenda and her OWN desires and beliefs and her OWN ways to get power and success and no tom don't worry I don't even want it!!! ofc she wants it more than anything in the world but she knows that to express desire is to be vulnerable to humiliation. but then that OLD CUNT coaxes her out of her shell and makes her believe she has a chance only to humiliate her over and over again and make her entire life about him because he can't stand for any of his kids not to be obsessed with him. "I've managed to get myself into this situation where what does my dad think is my entire fucking universe." sarah snook emmy logan roy kys 1000 times
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