![]() ![]() ![]() Was this the silver bullet the CE-bros needed to pull out? As he made puerile homophobic wisecracks and shrugged off Shiv’s questions like an overgrown teenager, Matsson almost resembled a long-lost Roy brother. ![]() Matsson was rushing through the sale so the story would “get lost in the deal dazzle”. I knew he was a bullshitter.” Well, it takes one to know one. “You’ve got to hold those fresh bills to the light. Trouble was brewing in India, where GoJo had vastly inflated its subscriber numbers. Yes, he’d been sending her frozen blood but that was the least of his problems. Sure, his image as a coding genius was PR spin. After witnessing Matsson’s public bullying of comms chief Ebba (Eili Harboe), they pretended to sympathise while fishing for intel. Just when it looked like game over, the quad squad got wind of a potentially fortuitous scandal. Once again, the brothers were reminded they weren’t worthy. “I’m not Gil, you’re not Logan and that’s a good thing,” said Nate. ATN would go easy on the Jimenez administration if it could kick the deal into the long grass. Regulators would have legitimate concerns about foreign ownership, let alone Matsson’s extreme political positions and Holocaust jokes. Button-holing Nate, he promised to “reset the dialogue” if the takeover went away. Notable how Matsson didn’t agree immediately, saying he’d ponder it. In return, she wanted a “very, very, very significant role”. Such treachery wasn’t without risk for Shiv. Like “a self-teaching AI”, he learned fast, reassuring sceptics that GoJo wouldn’t “data-mine you all to death” and he’d be more amenable than “the dumpster brothers”. Shiv steered Matsson around, advising him who and how to network. They’d continue their regulatory schmoozing while Shiv stayed close to Matsson. “VIP in the house!” Thrown by Matsson’s surprise arrival, Kendall hastily formulated a gameplan. Keep your friends close … Roman and Kendall formulate a gameplan. As VIP guests arrived – “thought leaders, podcasters, op-ed narcissists, crypto fascists, rightwing nutjobs, venture capital dems, centrist ghouls and beltway psychos” – the Roys set out to spread “surveillance capitalism heebie-jeebies”. Mini-burgers were adorned with stars-and-stripes flags. Ain’t no party like a tailgate partyĭom Perry corks popped. Double agent Shiv was straight on the phone to Matsson, warning him that “Dumb and Dumber” were “going regulatory”. As a political strategist who worked across tech and trade for Bernie Sanders-alike Senator Gil Eavis, he’d be a useful inside ally. Shiv reluctantly agreed to invite old flame Nate Sofrelli (Ashley Zukerman) to the party. In case they couldn’t price Matsson out of the sale, plan B was to tie up the takeover in regulatory knots. Despite Kendall’s triumph in Los Angeles, the Living+ stock bump was wearing off. “Your usual ‘malign influence’ material?” spat Roman.īack to business, the brothers worked angles on the GoJo deal. They wanted a “tight 90”, not a “three-day griefathon”. Merry widow Marcia (Hiam Abbass) was trying to hijack the ceremony. Regulate this, Warren GĪs the “funeral management committee” convened, Connor (Alan Ruck) was fresh from his latest visit to the funeral home, noting that Logan was “looking good” as he had “woken up on the right side of the coffin”. The second week running that ATN’s lurch to the far right had caused blowback for Team Ken-Ro. When Kendall dared question Rava’s parenting, she hit back that he was “running a racist news organisation”. A passerby in a T-shirt depicting ATN’s Nazi-sympathising anchor Mark Ravenhead had made a “racially tinged comment” to her. Their eldest child, Sophie, refused to go to school because she was “freaked out by the election”. We’ll put him down as a “maybe”, then.Īcross town, Kendall (Jeremy Strong) met ex-wife Rava (Natalie Gold). The post-coital pair prepared to show off their newly reconciled status by co-hosting ATN’s traditional pre-election party – or, according to billionaire Lukas Matsson (Alexander Skarsgård), “your dad’s bullshit, braindead, AOL-era legacy media, putrid stuffed-mushroom fuckfest”. Tumbleweeds blew across their Tribeca triplex. A joke, apparently, because “you kill me”. Now “Father Sexmas” gave his wife, Shiv (Sarah Snook), a scorpion paperweight. The pilot episode saw him present Logan with an unwanted watch. Polls showed a 4% swing to Democrat candidate Daniel Jimenez, but the headline story here? Never accept a gift from Tom Wambsgans (Matthew Macfadyen). ![]()
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