#is the one who breaks down the hardest after Ewan's scolding and speech might not be coincidence

[elbiotipo]

Ewan's speech was great, but I think his defining moment and something that I think will stay with me is when he tells off Greg (and Shiv, and by extension, everyone else) when they tried to stop him from speaking.

The Roys and virtually all the Succession cast are the rudest, most disrespectful characters I have ever seen in any media, period, and not just because they say "fuck" as a comma every five seconds (though that also gets ridiculous) but because they have no reverence or solemnity for anything. They treat close family, enemies, friends, strangers, business partners, employees, world leaders, whoever they come across, with the same level of (dis)respect, they treat any ocassion to plot and do business and self-agrandize (and this all without ever stopping saying fuck fuck fuckity fuck) even in formal speeches, they say and do whatever insulting nonsense they can think of and they get away with it... they are basically always saying shit, never getting hit.

I cannot think of a more disrespectful thing a human being could ever do that to stop a man from speaking at his brother's funeral. I really cannot. Yes, even if afterwards Ewan did condemn Logan in the harshest terms, the mere act of trying to stop him from speaking is probably the most transgressive, rudest, crude and disrespectful thing I can imagine in a normal, civilized setting, and that's saying a lot from this show.

So I was pleasantly surprised that afterwards, it wasn't taken as a joke, it wasn't forgotten about. They didn't get away with it. Ewan told them, point blank, one of the harshest lines of the show: "What sort of people would stop a brother speaking for the sake of a share price?". And he kept talking, he talked all his mind, and this time, the Roy siblings (and everybody else in attendance) could not stop him from talking, and could not stop themselves from listening with stupid quips and variations of the word fuck. They just had to sit there and bear it and stew in the shame, perhaps for the first time in their lives.

Even if I also find Ewan a big hypocrite (if you "stan" anyone here you're, to borrow some of their language, a fucking idiot), it was an inmensenly satisfying moment that turned the usual dynamics of the show on its head, just leading to the finale.