Kendall was not so good at the last family wedding. His mother's Tuscan wedding seemed hopeless.

Give any friend a story

As a subscriber, you have 10 gifts to send every month. Anyone can read what you share.

At the end of this week's "Inheritance" episode, Kendall Roy was floating on an inflatable raft in the swimming pool, face down, apparently drunk. Under water, in the shot aimed at the surface of the pool, we saw Kendall dropping his beer bottle into the water. From the camera's point of view, his face also seemed to be submerged. He looks...dead?

When the credits are rolled over, whether this is a literal or symbolic death remains unresolved. (Surely this show will not kill a main character in this ambiguous way?) However, we do know who is responsible-in a roundabout way-to put Kendall in that pool. It was these people who brought him into this world: his mother Caroline (Harriet Walter) and his father Logan.

This week, Kendall and his family attended the wedding of Caroline and her old lover Peter Munien (Pipe Torrance) in scenic Italy. After the disastrous birthday party last week, he seems to be on a task to straighten out his life. His hair was messed up-"Stripped naked," he said-and he seemed determined to reconcile his siblings and settle his Waystar business.

But as soon as Kendall arrived, his mother pulled him aside, told him Peter’s horrible "line of events," and asked her son if he could help separate them so he wouldn’t be in the same place as Logan. ——According to Logan's request. This was the first blow to Kendall's confidence.

The second time happened when Kendall talked with Confrey about some last chances to keep his crusade against the company's malfeasance in the media. A popular podcast is investigating "Royce's Curse" and wants him to participate. problem? The host will dig deeper into all family scandals...including the death of the caterer who was believed to have been bullied to death by Logan but Kendall actually drove into the lake at Schiff’s wedding.

This year's TV offers originality, humor, resistance and hope. Here are some highlights selected by the TV critics of The Times:

Kendall's third mental blow-the Terminator-happened when he had dinner with Logan. Kendall considered a lot for this meeting. He consulted Logan's doctor to make sure the menu complied with his father's dietary restrictions. ("Are you afraid that I will go to Jim Jones with olives?" Kendall joked.) He prepared a reasonable suggestion. He will cash out Waystar at a price of US$2 billion, while retaining one of the company's media assets for himself. He also promised to stay away from Logan's life forever. "I won't even speak at your memorial service," he said.

But Logan will not play together. He asked Kendall's autistic son Iverson to taste his food to make sure it was not poisoned. It was cold, not only because it showed a lack of trust, but also because Logan seemed willing to sacrifice his grandson. (During further digging, he asked Kendall of Iverson, "Is he getting better?") Although he seemed willing to buy his son before, he hesitated now that he had a counter-offer on hand.

The whole scene-tense and emotional-subtly sums up the mentality of Logan Roy as a whole. He wants his family and his employees to be on call, but he doesn't want to give them any real benefits. Whenever the person negotiating with him seemed satisfied, Logan became restless.

Like almost all his other corrosive personality traits, this combination of greed, jealousy, and bigotry has been passed on to his children—especially Schiff. When Logan had dinner with Kendall, Schiff and Caroline and some of her future in-laws were trapped in "Girls' Night." Her conversation with her mother also revealed "Royce's curse."

For a long time, Schiff has listed Caroline on the list of childhood disappointments she must overcome. But Caroline will not let her escape this revisionist history. In Shiv’s memory, her mother took a sum of money from Logan when she was 10 years old, and then forced her to live with her brothers and their father when she was 10 years old, all because of Caroline I don't want to play mother anymore. true story? Shiv is 13 years old; she made a positive decision to live with Logan. ("I want Bacon and Dad," this is her mother's way of describing her daughter's inadvertently cruelty.)

This discovery angered Schiff, and she returned to her room to tell Tom that she was ready to fight for Waystar's highest position-and have a baby with him. But their night of passion did not go smoothly because she was caught in a weird sadism-style role-playing, seeing her purring while seducing Tom, "You are not good for me", "I don't love you."

The next day he wanted to discuss this, wondering, "Should I directly listen to what you say when we are closest?" But Shiv insisted that none of this should be taken seriously. ("What will happen in Sex Vegas...?" she asked weakly.) She also revised their pregnancy plan, offered to freeze their embryos, and then ended the conversation, "I might not love you, But I do love you." This is how Roy expresses his love.

This profound change is also reflected in the way Logan handles ongoing negotiations with Lukas Mattson and GoJo. At the beginning of the episode, Logan took Stewy and Sandi to the office and told them about the acquisition, pretending it was out of courtesy, but really wanted to rub them on their faces. But he also insisted that if they didn't like it, he would terminate the deal. To be honest, he was a little nervous about Mattson's seemingly reckless, emoji-filled tweets to push stock prices higher. ("I'm not used to negotiating through eggplant," Logan sighed.)

Therefore, Roman was sent to the Mattson compound to find out if the GoJo boss was mentally unstable or just "moving." The two had a disturbing discussion about the thrill of failure; and Roman may have left a thin impression of Mattson at this meeting. But he would hedge his bets with Logan anyway, telling his father that their potential business partners really wanted an "equal merger"-he thought it would ruin the deal.

On the contrary, it is surprising that Logan is open to the idea of ​​making GoJo an acquirer while Waystar runs the business-as long as he knows that Mattson is "a serious man" and not a "Twitter panties flasher." ("I can win any match with a boxer," Logan said. "But I don't know how to knock down the Joker.")

However, what caused the old man to stop was that when Roman was celebrating another major victory he thought was his own, he accidentally sent a photo of his penis to his father, thinking that he was harassing Gerri. Now Logan has reason to question Roman, Gerri... really his entire command structure.

Interestingly, when Roman tried to explain the whole concept of sending genital photos, Logan assured him that he was aware of this phenomenon and said: "We did publish some popular newspapers." This is the same as what he said to Kendall Echoing each other, because they didn't solve any problems. Kendall tried to make a summary statement about his time at Waystar, telling his father, "You won because you are corrupt, and so is the world." "You have turned black bile into silver dollars." Logan smirked. " Just noticed, didn't you?"

Logan first countered Kendall's self-righteousness by defending his revolutionary vision for journalism: "A little spice, a little fun, a little truth." Then he pierced his son's heart, mentioned the dead waiter again, and asked. : "How long did the child live before he started to absorb water?"

Therefore, as night fell, Kendall finally absorbed water by himself and fell into self-loathing in Tuscany paradise. Whether he died or not, he was definitely not alive at this moment.

The budding relationship between Greg and Comfry seemed to stagnate as he watched her constantly being distracted by the "call content." He said to Tom and Schiff, “I really want to know, is there any depth there?” Based on their suggestions, he decided to use his time at Comfry as a “dating ladder” in order to achieve better results and be honest with someone The kind-hearted European countess flirts, who is also an online brand ambassador for fermented yogurt drinks. But he gets flustered when talking to her. The best way he can think of is that the drink she chooses is "a food that cleans the intestines."

Everyone is very worried about Caroline’s boyfriend Peter’s true intentions-even the bride-to-be herself, she admits, "He is terrible, I can clearly see that." (Roman pretends to be aggrieved: "You said Is my stepfather.")

In the past, in Kendall's many coups and disasters, Roman and Schiff have always maintained a special connection because they are connected because of the common relief that they are not brothers. This harmony now seems to be in danger, thanks to Roman's public joy at Shiv's exile from the inner circle. This week he tried to win her back by recruiting her to help him defeat Peter, but she asked Roman sincerely and bitterly. He muttered to himself: "We are working hard. A continuous process."

When Connor knelt down in front of Willa, it made Connor ignore a basic rule of social etiquette: never propose at a wedding.