#succ spoilers

[declanscunt]

siobhan.. do you remember when we first uh knew one another… the first time in france when i flew to you…and it was that very difficult time for you.. and … i’d sent you uh.. all those handwritten notes .. and then the first time.. you were wearing a very fine silk shirt. and i put my arm around you.. and i said .. i kept asking…do you like this. do you like this. you said eventually… i like it all

[coveredinsun]

roman saying “cunty” over the phone killed logan roy

[lovebugism]

so real

[deanwinchestergf]

YOU CANT BE CEO BECAUSE YOU KILLED SOMEONE

[igbeh]

so why did roman start eating logans pills like candy

[clarafordahwin]

[sunflowerdigs]

Roman finally getting his partner in life/business who will never leave him, except Mencken is so obviously going to betray him asap because fascists literally do whatever the hell they want to anyone they want whenever they want, that's the point of fascism. And Roman knows that because he was raised by a fascist. But because of Logan, Roman will always choose people who will never put him first to partner with, over and over again, because that's his role to play, that's the cage he belongs in, and the cycle is unending.

[kazanskyy]

the pictures behind greg in logan's office being of shiv's wedding and roman and shiv as kids...feeling totally normal about it

[slimepuppied]

SUCCESSION : romangerri 4.07

nope.

[ladysophiebeckett]

logan’s death finally allowing for krank to feel comfortable on the plane to adjust their compression socks without judgment. 

love wins in the end. 

[stoneantler]

obsessed with connor saying “America be afraid” (genuinely frightening statement) only to follow it up with “Conheads are coming” (silly, hilarious, juvenile in all ways)

[mahkari]

‘we gave it a go’

[shivology]

tom admitting to shiv that he loves her but he also loves money. tom/stewy mirrors nation rise

[thee-rat-king]

IDK if I was the only one that noticed, but Tom and Greg’s ✨dynamic✨was barely present in this weeks episode, at least in its usual form. It was obvious in episode one that there’s been a shift between them. A level of stability that didn’t exist in earlier seasons - but in episode two I can’t remember a single moment that read as Tom belittling or dismissing Greg, or treating him as his pseudo-property. And Greg’s obviously much more comfortable and confident around Tom now, but seeing that in an office environment really drove it home.

It’s not just that Greg is becoming Tom, as I’ve seen some people say, or losing that final part of his humanity (that I maintain he never really had) - it’s that Greg doesn’t perceive Tom as a threat anymore. Wether that’s in relation to physical violence, or psychological warfare, or even just general workplace harassment of a superior to an employee, Greg is season 4 is acting as though he is comfortable with the knowledge that he is Safe in Tom’s presence. Something that has never really happened before over the course of a whole episode. And Tom is reinforcing this.

Of course the majority of their shift is dynamic can be attributed to the fact that they are the last of the “working family” (Conner doesn’t count, Roman is up in the air) in the Waystar inner circle. There is not immediate threat of prison or public humiliation, and a financially advantageous deal is near enough to done and dusted. External pressures were at least partially to blame for a lot of their conflict in earlier seasons, although that for sure wasn’t helped by Tom being weird and wrong in Mind Body & Soul, and Greg being the an actual cartoon character come to life. They certainly had their moments of synergy before (“we hear for you”) but never to the extent that they could go a full episode without at least some minor ribbing/workplace harassment/whatever satanic midwestern/Canadian courting ritual they’re doing this time.

There is still absolutely a power dynamic - Tom is older, and Greg’s boss. I couldn’t guess what Greg’s official job title is - in earlier seasons I wouldn’t have been surprised if his pay slips just said “nepotism cousin” on them. But he is functionally in his “attack dog” (no matter how terrible he is at it) era.

But by now they’re the closest they’re ever been the on an equal level, in the family, at work, and it seems in each others estimation. I have no idea if they’re going to kiss each other passionately on the mouth, but either way, they’ve started on mutual respect, and that’s always a good beginning (middle?) to a relationship.

[butchdutch]

what if this was my last straw

[sunflowerdigs]

Matsson being a mirror/foil for Roman makes that scene at the top of the mountain even more heartbreaking. Roman can't forgive himself for laughing at Matsson's joke about Logan's death, for the way Matsson is playing little power games with Logan's legacy. The way that Matsson (and, thus, Roman) has no respect for anything real because nothing means anything. Because if anything meant something, Roman (and, thus, Matsson) would have to sit with it and realize how incredibly empty his life is, devoid of all seriousness and meaning. Roman may like a joke, he's told himself, but he isn't a clown. Really, he's not.

Ghosts at the theme park, the Hanna-Barbera school of business. Matsson's lines are almost word-for-word Roman's actual strategy for the proxy battle in S2. And now, in s4, it's too silly, Waystar Royco means too much. Logan means too much. And Roman should have realized it then, but he didn't. So he starts yelling.