Since Logan Roy’s death, the largest telecommunications company in the United States has been without leadership. Although it may seem that the brothers are working together to achieve the same goal and start new businesses, the reality is quite different.
As you may recall, Matsson managed to buy Waystar Royco with a sky-high offer, provided the board of directors added the ATN news channel to the deal.
The brothers forced the machine and got – unwittingly – a deal much more advantageous than I thought, not even Logan Roy would have been able to reach such a figure: $192 per share. The target was $143.
The duel for Logan Roy finally arrives
Normally, when a family member passes away, their children take time to grieve. In Succession, Shiv Roy schedules her mourning, setting aside an empty meeting room somewhere in the bowels of one of Waystar RoyCo’s Los Angeles properties to mourn for a few minutes.
Roman Roy dismisses anyone who wakes the dragon (sorry, this is another successor to a very different throne) and listens to an edited video of his dead father’s voice insulting him over and over and over again, only to hear his voice, his name on his father’s lips.
And Kendall, well, gets his father up on stage with him at the Investor Day presentation and has a macabre, gimmicky conversation with Logan for all the world to see. He keeps trying to bust the Lukas Mattson deal and, while no one trusts his harebrained schemes, he actually succeeds.
Living+, Kendall’s craze
The idea is Living+ and Mattson hates it. Kendall cynically describes it as a plan to “warehouse old people and keep them drunk on content while we suck them dry.” By the end of the episode, it’s a visionary app that could turn the company around.
Living+ is the gated community of the future, a high-tech real estate project that promises security, entertainment and, most importantly, eternal life. Sort of. “If not forever,” Kendall says at one point, “live…more forever.”
For the time being, Living+ promises a future with all the comforts that technology has to offer and medical care that only billionaires can currently receive.
It’s a pipe dream, but not that far-fetched. And why not? Why not also invent fake figures to drive Waystar RoyCo’s price up over bad weather? On screen, Logan Roy’s ghost promises to “double” profits, but it’s all fake.
It’s all a lie, a not-so-subtle edit of what the Roy patriarch actually said, edited by a beleaguered worker who Greg forces into the task.
Nobody should take this deal for granted because the series still has a few chapters left and I’m sure Matsson has come up with something to punish the Roy’s. He doesn’t seem like the type to sit idly by after losing. He doesn’t seem like the type to sit idly by after losing.
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