It seems pretty likely that he’ll be telling his whole story now, not just talking about the cruise mess, and he certainly has the media connections to do it. Long live the lesser Pierces!She insults the academic Pierce with a crack about Wikipedia; she trolls Roman’s reading recs and bullies Tom in front of everyone; she’s wrong-footed with Nan (who gives her a truly operatic glare) when she tries to compliment Pierce.
When she’s told she will get the job, she immediately falls apart with anxiety at the thought that her father hasn’t yet announced her as his successor.Immediately after having his own future thrown into question, Tom actually does a nice little job building Shiv back up in the hallway, but she refuses to even acknowledge cutting him down. Maybe he’s impressed with his second son. When they agree to sell to Logan the next morning, they try to demand that Logan name Shiv his successor when he announces the acquisition, the better to quell fears that Pierce’s storied journalism history is going to someone who won’t simply loot and pillage it. We’ve all remained extremely close.”“The Pierce family has this elitist mentality, like, We have higher beliefs and higher ideals and what we do serves something greater,” she goes on. (RIP Vaulter. I think I’ve become addicted to wellness. I thought that was so cool,” she goes on. The perfect crime.
... the attraction between Naomi and Kendall is almost immediately obvious. The press conference at the end of the episode mirrors the awkward remote interview from the season premiere, marking Kendall’s arc from puppet to rebel, from bait to shark.Undoubtedly we’re meant to be left with a sense of ambiguity—it is a cliffhanger, after all. He even protests Kendall’s offing, the way a person would stand up for their brother.Get our newsletter in your inbox twice a week.What’s next for Kendall, in a post-Logan world? And it turns out, this museum brings up a lot of memories of her childhood on the Upper West Side. The finale ends on a shot of the man staring implacably forward. It’s gut-churning and heart-breaking, and I genuinely can’t believe how much Shiv risked for something she barely believes in, beyond liking the idea of having power. Greg did the right thing — whatever that means — and once again, he rises to the winner’s circle. “There’s always something that brings me here,” she says. But Kendall and Naomi live to see another day.Maridelis Morales Rosado for W MagazineYou can try to draw parallels between Dexter-Jones and her character—both come from highly influential families in the arts and culture space, for example—but when we meet on the steps of the American Museum of Natural History, Dexter-Jones exudes the most down-to-earth quality. Everybody lies so much in this world that it’s strange to hear Kendall tell the truth about what Logan Roy is really like—to add, too, that his father might be accountable to some higher authority for his behavior. Before you can be sucked back into this whole — [gestures vaguely to Roy family] thing.
He makes it hysterically clear that he will never relinquish power on anything but his own terms. It's possible. Not great for the woman who was nearly CEO. But I wonder if Logan’s fate wasn’t really sealed when he invoked the cruise’s offensive motto — “no real person involved” — to refer to the waiter Kendall let drown. Naomi is … Sometimes, demanding what you’re owed is the play, even if it comes from a place of raw anxiety. “I felt like I knew her because I grew up in New York City and went to an all girls private school, and was kind of surrounded by a lot of people like that.”Sign up to receive the best in fashion, art and film from the W editors. In my house, it was not like that. There’s two sides to that coin, but it’s exciting. Then, she swings the Zabar's bag filled with coffee beans and baked goods over her shoulder and heads towards a restaurant for lunch with her mom.As we move through a hall dedicated to the conservation of the New York state environment, Dexter-Jones confesses that city’s overwhelmingly positive response to the show is starting to freak her out a little bit.