![]() ![]() The movie is essentially the capstone to everyone’s respective journey focused on the backstory and mission to save the Bradley Cooper voiced Rocket Racoon (Cooper legitimately gives a great performance). It’s focused on its characters and saying goodbye to them (or this iteration of them). Guardians 3, for a lot of reasons, is very good, but it’s allowed to be because it’s not concerned with setting u the next thing. The problem is that the MCU’s overarching mission of connecting all of its movies and setting up the next story within the one you are watching isn’t conducive to telling compelling stories. Marvel hasn’t released a fully satisfying movie in quite some time. ![]() The next episode is the election party, so it’s going to be an episode where the dynamics change as every important character will be in close contact with one another exchanging one liners and making moves. She still has an in with Madsen as well as her husband back, so where does she go from here? The election is coming up, and Shiv is the least deprived politically out of her siblings and is adverse to ATN, basically pushing for Mencken. She rekindles her relationship with Tom, who now bites back (literally) and is the most honest anyone has ever been on this show with his “I like nice things” speech he gives to Shiv. She knows they are trying to tank the deal, and any idea of them looking out for her or her being an equal part of their sibling trio was laid to rest in her mind. She comes to the conclusion she is being played by her brothers because they can’t BS her. Shiv had the second-best arc in this episode. What other course does he have now other than self-destruction and ensuring his father’s most precious toy continues what it's designed to do and shape culture in the most depraved and anti-democratic way possible? Romans road looks pretty dark from here on out, I expect him to hang on to the one aspect of himself and the family business that means anything to him, and that is ATN and the network pledging its allegiance to the fascist presidential candidate Jeryd Mencken. Roman fires a studio executive fires Gerri after she confronts him about how that was a bad idea, bails on the presentation, and ends up on the outs once again, missing yet another opportunity to be seen as a serious person. Will this last? Probably not, but with so few episodes, maybe something has finally clicked with Kendall. He ends the episode on a beach, writing out “#1” in the sand with his feet before diving into the ocean (a dangerous proposition considering the character’s history with water). Kendall has always wanted to feel important, and he stumbled and bumbled until everything clicked, and he surprisingly exceeded all expectations. Kendall wins the room, navigates a Madsen-planted trip bomb in the form of a Nazi tweet, and is greeted as a conqueror after everyone from the C-suite Allstars to his siblings, and Greg wrote him off. ![]() The arc of Kendall’s meltdown and rise was hard to watch through the cringy awkwardness of Jeremy Strongs performance, from the CEO flight jacket Kendall wears, to the parody of this kind of CEO tech talk BS-the presentation doubling as a way for Kendall to grieve his father (whether genuine or not)-everything gelled into a perfect concoction. The presentation was written and acting at its finest. As the Northman, Lukas Madsen put it" “You know how shitty and heartbreaking it is to be locked up on a cruise? How about that but you also get to stay in the same fucking place the whole time?” Kendall describes it himself as a “warehouse the elderly and keep them drunk on content while we suck them dollar-dry.” Living+ is basically a cruise but on land, an idea left to the Roy brothers by their late father, who appears in this episode in the form of a pre-recorded investor pitch for the potential service. He is ready to wow the company’s investors (by lying about growth) and introduce the world to the brilliant idea that is Living+, a parody of the tech company-everything is a subscription model that every company in the world is trying to do. Kendall is at his business-bro jargon peak and is constantly crushing LaCroix. He and Roman are scrambling to get this investor presentation right. ![]() We follow Kendall and Roman, who are supposed to put on this show and end up diverging throughout the episode, with Roman falling deeper into a pit of inadequacy and continued grief and Kendall, who is high on his own supply, feeding his addiction with a glazed look over his face poised to have everything blow up in his face.įrom the jump, Kendall looks ready to fail. The episode revolved around the very Silicon Valley tech bro investor meeting presenting the media strategies for Waystar. ![]()
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