Succession Series Finale: With Open Eyes

After four years of Succession, none of the Roy kids wins a kiss from daddy. Ken in a sense does become his father, terribly abusing his siblings during the board meeting. But he only claims his birthright to cruelty, and not Logan’s business acumen and ends up doing something the old man rarely did: failed. His CEO dreams die by one vote, and he ends up the same sad sack he always was.

 

Instead, Tom Wambsgans triumphs as the lapdog CEO of the new company. Shiv unwittingly sets this in motion by saying her estranged husband will “suck the biggest dick in the room.” She means this as a passive-aggressive way to save Tom’s job but keep him at heel, but Matsson takes it differently. After Tom doesn’t push back against Matsson wanting to fuck his wife, the Swede realizes Tom will submit himself to Matsson’s real power, something Shiv would never really do. And so Tom, the empty suit, fails upwards into the CEO job—exactly how it goes sometimes in real life. Greg, with his combination of cunning/slackjaw-ness, is a similarly useful idiot to Tom, so of course Greg also ends up failing upward.

 

All this is true to life. Did anyone think the world of Succession was a meritocracy?

 

The night the Roys spent at their mom’s in Barbados was a parallel to how they bonded at the end of season 3 in a similar tropical location. It was also a parallel Earth, depicting how the kids could have just walked away from the company intrigue and enjoyed each other’s company and the billions they’d cash out with. I don’t fully understand their problem with Caroline. Sure, she’s a piece of work, but no less than anyone in their circle. They might have been better off with her. After Roman’s breakdown/beatdown, Caroline is the only one who actually says she’s taking care of him.

 

The kids skip out on her plans to go back to the board meeting. “Never had my plans ruined before by a huge board meeting,” their mother says. She’s passive-aggressive but right—I have some sympathy for how it must have been to try to build a life with the Roys and have it constantly interrupted.

 

The siblings compare notes and realize that at one point, Logan told each of them they could have the company. Shiv got her assurance a few seasons ago when she seemed to be on the upswing, and Roman inferred a more cryptic vote of confidence just before Logan died. Ken’s promise came at a Candy Kitchen at age 7, and he’s had to carry that warping burden ever since. After finding out Matsson is screwing her, Shiv decided to screw him and tank the deal. The three “anoint” Ken as CEO in a sweet bonding scene on a raft in the water (they always seem to bond over the water). The thing is, none of them are very competent. Roman never could have gotten it; he’s too all over the place and has too much work to do on himself first in terms of working through his child abuse. I always saw Shiv and Ken as about equal in terms of ability, but Ken might have an edge as he was more involved with Waystar than his sister. But really, none of them are serious choices to run a company.

 

The scene in the kitchen as the three blend together a vile concoction as “a meal fit for a king” was sweet and fun. It played on some untold history among the three and was a nice way for the show to say goodbye to them. They flew to Barbados separately and in a snit, but they fly home together.

 

The show also has a final goodbye scene to Logan, shown in a video of a recent dinner with his mistress and the grays. He’s relaxed, riffing on politics and singing songs. None of his kids was invited. They can put stickers on Logan’s belongings and claim them after he dies, but they didn’t break through to that true inner circle with their father.

 

Unity crumbles in the boardroom. Roman has a last heartbreaking moment of mourning the CEO position he didn’t get, wondering why it couldn’t be him. Ken hugs his little brother but in doing so, literally reopens a wound so he can claim his power. It’s a hug and an assault; a harbinger. The vote to sell is 6–6 with Shiv as the tiebreaker. Siobhan lives up to her nickname in the final moments of the show and tanks the deal.

 

Shiv’s motivations for this were likely complicated. I think she does believe, correctly, that her brother would be terrible as CEO. “I love you but I can’t fucking stomach you,” she tells her brother. Maybe a part of her also calculated that if the sale goes through, she’d be married to the CEO and could still stay in the game. Maybe voting to sell was just her exercising whatever power she could.

 

The scene in the glass-walled boardroom was the ugliest in the show’s history as the three backstab one another worse than they ever have. Kendall screams “I’m the eldest boy*!” at his siblings, showing all of Logan’s thunder but none of his power. Shiv brings up the waiter Ken killed, threatening to reveal that to the board. Roman makes some shockingly nasty comments about the biological parentage of Ken’s kids. Most alarming of all, Ken—who had previously defended his little brother against their father’s abuses—assaults Roman with a horrific face-hold that made it look like he wanted to kill him. Ken continues the cycle of abuse in his family, inheriting his dad’s cruelty—but walks away with nothing.

 

The siblings are shattered after all this. These are terrible people who hurt one another and somehow have still managed to retain a bond after everything, but the hurt may just be too deep to come back from this time. After all, they no longer have their father or the company to orbit around. If Logan had any wishes for them to remain together after he died, all that lasted about a week.

 

So where do they go after the final credits?

 

Roman Roy is finally free. “We are bullshit,” Roman says, almost as a thesis statement for the show. “It’s all fucking nothing.” He goes to the bar for a drink and while there is a twinge of sadness on his face, there’s also a smile. Maybe he can live for himself and find some peace.

 

Siobhan Roy’s future is uncertain. She’s married to the CEO and pregnant but their marriage is an ongoing disaster and Tom is still facing heavy criticism for his premature election call. Can she really be happy outside the center of power? As her father said, she married a man “fathoms beneath her” so he wouldn’t betray her, but he betrayed her anyway. In the car, Tom extends his hand and she accepts it, but half-heartedly.

 

Kendall Roy is completely lost. He came within a micron of power and lost it. He’s estranged from his siblings and his kids. Now all he has is a bodyguard he doesn’t need, and nothing really to do. He walks around and stares out at the river. He thought he could be his father and ended up with the old man’s worst qualities and none of the success.

 

Season 4 was a thrill ride, powerful enough to bring me to the brink of a panic attack over the death of someone I didn’t know, and to send me into despair about the election of a fictional fascist. None of the kids ended up with the crown but that was immensely satisfying to me and very true to the spirit of the show. Succession was never really a show about succession, but instead a show about idiots failing upward and stayed true to that until the end. It wasn’t about the destination but the incompetent bastards we met along the way.

I'm trying to develop Very Strong Online Opinions about the remake of 'The Little Mermaid'

There comes a time when you can’t just sit on the sidelines and be neutral about a hot-button cultural issue; when you need to stand up and opine. This becomes clearer to me as I get older. That’s why I’m making a real effort to develop some Very Strong Online Opinions about the live-action remake of The Little Mermaid.

 

I enjoyed the original when I saw it many years ago but I never really had any strong feelings about it. Well, that’s about to change dramatically. I’m going to either view the movie in worshipful terms or become disgusted with the way Disney heartlessly trashed the most beloved movie of all time.

 

I’m wondering if the stance I need to take is to absolutely detest Halle Bailey’s performance as Ariella—just on principle and before even seeing the movie. In doing my research, it seems as if this is a common viewpoint in certain circles. I’ve learned from the haters that opposing the casting of a Black woman in a role originally portrayed as white has absolutely nothing to do with racism. No, it’s actually a principled defense of the vision of creator Hans Christian Andersen, a lifelong passion that started the moment these people heard about this casting decision. After all, the original 1989 mermaid was a redheaded woman—er, drawing—so it really takes a machete to people’s souls to see this fantastical creature portrayed differently.

 

I’m sure Bailey’s performance is fine but that’s wrong of me to think. No, I either need to get into high dudgeon over it, or speak in rapturous tongues about its glories. It’s the same with Melissa McCarthy as Ursula. She’s either perfect for the role and will embody it completely, or she’s a disgrace against art and she should be run out of town on a rail. Plus, Awkwafina will either outrage or delight me. I’ll decide on all of these characters soon.

 

Beyond just the actresses, it’s important to have a position on whether or not remaking The Little Mermaid brings back fond memories or ruins my childhood. My research has found many people take the latter stance—a childhood irreparably destroyed by Disney’s decision to retain hold of its intellectual property—so I’m leaning toward that. It will be important to emphasize the tragedy of this to everyone who can hear or read me complain, since I had just begun to rebuild a childhood that was completely shattered by the remake of The Lion King.

 

Childhood, it appears, is very fragile. When it’s ruined, it happens retroactively—all those pleasant memories you had are no longer valid. When you look back, every day will be an ice cream cone dropped face-down on the asphalt. And it’s not like it’s an option to just not see a movie’s remake and be content with the original.

 

So I’m weighing how to react to all this; to find extreme passion for something I never really cared about before. I’ll let you all know, at a very loud volume, soon.

Succession 4.9: Church and State

It’s a safe bet that on TV, when they show someone rehearsing something they’re about to do, they won’t actually get to do it for real, or will do it in a form very different from what they were rehearsing. So when I saw Roman cavalierly running through his eulogy, I figured he wouldn’t get to give it straight during Logan’s funeral. It sounded like Roman’s speech would have just been boilerplate, more about his father’s business legacy than anything else. As usual, Roman makes jokes on the way to the funeral, mocking Ken for using sunglasses as a shield for his tears and teasing Shiv about her pregnancy. “If I see breastfeeding, I’m gonna have to jerk off” is such a charming thing to say to your sister on the way to your dad’s funeral.

 

But hearing Ewan’s honest eulogy about his dad visibly breaks something in Roman; you can see him snap. He finally, finally drops all his defenses and can only sob at the lectern. The full weight of who his father was and what he lost hits him. The crying was heartbreaking, and another great performance from Kieran Culkin (engrave his Emmy while you’re doing Sarah Snook’s). When he says “Is he in there? Get him out,” this is a grown man reduced to a child in the face of losing his dad.

 

Ewan’s eulogy was extraordinary. Every criticism of his brother’s rapacious capitalism and hoarding of wealth was true (“the grain stashed while another goes hungry”). But his recounting of their perilous wartime trip across the Atlantic, and the death from polio of their sister Rose—and Logan’s guilt for having think he caused it—was humanizing and intimate to an almost painful degree. Nobody in Logan’s circle had probably ever heard any of that. “He fed a certain kind of meagerness in men,” his brother says. “Perhaps he had to, because he had a meagerness about him. And maybe I do about me, too. I don’t know. I try. I try. I don’t know when, but some time, he decided not to try anymore. And it was a terrible shame.” This was praise and burial, humanizing and demonizing. No wonder Roman broke down.

 

Ken acknowledges his father’s monstrous tendencies but asserts that he used that monstrousness to build something great—newspapers, movies, ships. His is a shadow of his uncle’s speech and he can only really relate to his dad through money. “I hope it’s in me,” Ken says of his dad’s ruthlessness, as much a eulogy as an audition.

 

Shiv’s speech was a little more human than Ken’s Ayn Rand tribute. She acknowledged the problems he had with women, saying Logan “couldn’t fit a whole woman in his head,” but also saying goodbye to her “world of a father.” By the time they get to the cemetery, after seeing how Roman can’t go into the mausoleum and hearing him say he “couldn’t breathe” when dad was around, Shiv starts to doubt, asking Karl and Frank what kind of person her father really was; she gets no real answers that she doesn’t already know.

 

There were some nice touches I liked at the funeral, like Caroline immediately sensing Shiv is pregnant (your mother can always tell). The monosyllabic exchange between them was like something out of Ab Fab. In a lovely grace note, Logan’s wives make peace with the mistresses who supplanted them. I liked the small touch of humanity Marcia showed to the genuinely shattered Kerry.

 

The funeral once again underlined something very sad about this family: it’s really only immediate family and the hangers-on from Waystar in their circle. A funeral is usually a time when you reconnect with relatives and friends who come out of the woodwork to pay their respects, but the Roy kids weren’t actually mingling with or receiving any family like most normal mourners do. It was all dealmaking and corporate intrigue. These Waystar people are not your friends, which was again clarified with the cruelty with which they made fun of Roman’s breakdown. But how can you expect real warmth in a family where Logan chose his company’s lawyer to be his daughter’s godmother?

 

I realize they wanted to go with gravitas at the recessional out of the church with the slowed-down Succession theme song. But what kind of Catholic funeral doesn’t end with “On Eagles’ Wings”?

 

I also liked Jess’s flash of dignified defiance at her resignation, and the subtle suggestion that everything with Mencken and ATN’s rightward turn influenced that. Sorry, Ken, I know it was a rough day for you with your father’s funeral and all but you did force an answer out of Jess about the meeting. It was only her tact and desire not to burn bridges that kept her from telling you off.

 

The cemetery was kind of anticlimactic but I liked the way even everyday things can intrude on solemn moments—you still have to get out of the car to walk over to the grave. Shiv’s “I’m intrigued to see how he gets out of this one” was gold, and a bit of meta-commentary about the audience.

 

With completely predictable hilarity, Mencken has stopped caring about doing favors for ATN and stopping the sale now that he’s on the cusp of real power and can control the narrative by at least claiming victory. (But is Mencken president-elect? The Electoral College has another month before it has to meet and there needs to be some sort of legal remedy for those lost Wisconsin ballots. So the ATN call could be legally wrong as well as politically wrong. I’m enough of a nerd about this that I need closure.) You could see his eyes glazing over as Ken, Connor, and Greg approached him for favors. How dumb are these people to believe this guy would follow through with a verbal promise? Instead, Mencken will back the sale of Waystar to GoJo with Shiv as American CEO.

 

It's tragic to see how alone Roman Roy is. His abusive dad is gone and he doesn’t know who he is without him. His siblings could choose to comfort him in his obvious distress, but Ken mocks him for not giving the eulogy, saying “you fucked it.” Clips of his sobbing at his lowest moment are going viral. And so, he has nothing and nobody left, choosing to run into the crowd of protestors, surrendering to their abuse and the chaos he helped unleash.

Succession 4.8: America Decides

It is horrific that the seesawing of the United States government toward fascism in the end came down to the business desires, petty family grievances, and ignorance of the Roy family. Jeryd Mencken barely wins the presidency due to ATM’s management-mandated calls of Wisconsin and Arizona for the hard-right Republican.

 

Everyone in this family had a part to play in this election:

 

Roman, who once seemed to have a flicker of conscience for what a Mencken presidency would do to the American people, goes all-in on the candidate since Mencken had promised he would use the government’s regulatory powers to disrupt the Waystar–GoJo deal. More than just a business deal, this is personal—Rome’s grief over his father’s death combines with his desire to both one-up and please Logan to take the side of the right wing. In his arguing with Shiv over whether Menken supporters or “antifa” set the fire at the Milwaukee polling place, there is also a distinct sense of sibling rivalry, that the two are just being contrary like they were as children. It’s more explicit with Ken, as Roman whines that they always had chicken growing up because Ken wanted chicken for dinner, while Roman never got the steak he wanted. The fate of America turned on these grievances.

 

Siobhan, a Jimenez supporter, is genuinely horrified by the prospect of Mencken’s win, but the personal mixes with her actions, too. At Ken’s urging, she calls Jimenez’s people to try to get them to scotch the deal in exchange for ATN’s calls in the Democrat’s favor. But Shiv also wants to get back at her brothers for freezing her out, so the call is a fake one, her need to get back at her brothers and get in good with Matsson outweighing her concerns for the country. It backfires badly on her when Ken finds out and calls her a “piece of dirt.” (God, that quick flash of anguish when she realizes Ken knows she faked the call and there’s no coming back from betraying her family—engrave Sarah Snook’s Emmy now.)

 

Kendall seems genuinely torn between his desire for Mencken to win and screw Matsson, and his desire to do what’s best for the country. That scene when he was discussing the larger implications of the election with Shiv showed just a little crack in Ken’s armor to his humanity. His conscience is so close to telling him the world-altering moves he and his siblings are making will have real effects on people like his daughter. Then he finds out his sister betrayed him, and a different kind of personal feeling gets in the way, and he’s all in for Mencken.

 

Greg plays a part, too. He bumbled into having a drink with Matsson and learning he’s talking to Shiv. She threatens him, which motivates him to betray her and tell Ken what’s really going on.

 

Connor had a more amusing role with his 1% share of the voters, but it’s not unthinkable that he may have skewed the electoral votes. It’s funny and very depressing that a man who can afford to throw around $100 million for a vanity presidential campaign is also deluded enough to think he’ll be having “breakfast in Dubrovnik” as part of the new administration.

 

Tom, of course, is the one who made the call for Wisconsin and Arizona, after a cocaine-fueled meltdown over the dysfunctional touch screen and the immense pressure of making the call. The personal plays a part for him, too—the news of Shiv’s pregnancy probably influenced him toward calling the election for the Republican to get back at his Democratic wife. “Is this just another play?” he asks her about the pregnancy. These people also don’t know what they’re doing. Tom has no experience in election coverage whatsoever and was picked to run ATM in return for favors to the boss. None of the Roys also seem to know that much about election laws, and are powerful enough to hand-wave away what they see as minor concerns, like absentee ballots and recounts.

 

Logan is gone but still played a part—he hand-picked Mencken to run for president. This is how these people see the world: they have the power and the privilege to make literally world-altering decisions to serve their bottom line, with no concern for the rest of us. The reality belies the episode title “America Decides”—powerful people like the Roys are the ones who decide for America. It would play more as an amusing farce if we didn’t already live through election night 2016. (My eye started twitching when someone said “There goes the blue wall.”) By the way, is this taking place in 2020 or 2024?

 

This episode wasn’t entirely dark and there were a few moments of levity to be found, like that pollster getting wasabi in his eye, a sting exacerbated by Greg using lemon LaCroix as eye wash. “It’s not that lemony! It’s just a hint of lemon,” Greg defends himself, but it doesn’t seem comforting to the poor guy. Connor’s concession speech was funny, with him vilifying “that woman,” his VP who dropped out. It was a tantalizing little glimpse of a story you wish you’d heard in full.

 

Other than the brief flashes of humor, this episode of Succession was pure nihilism.

Succession 4.7: Tailgate Party

Succession is one of those shows, like The Americans, where I easily understand the emotional content but have a harder time with some of the plot. It’s one of those shows where things happen in whispers and winks and I don’t always grasp developments right away. It’s another reason why I wouldn’t make it in that environment. So I’ll start with a few things I didn’t get right away.

 

I’m not sure what’s going on with Nate and ATN. Is Ken promising that the network will be friendlier to the Democrats? Is it in exchange for the Democratic presidential candidate doing something or other? I’m slow on the uptake here. I was also a little fuzzy on what happened with Ken’s daughter. I got that the show is saying the election is causing rising hate and discrimination in America but was the hate the girl experienced in the street directed at her or was it a more general vibe? The election plot seems a little undercooked this season. I know the general idea is Mencken is a fascist and I believe he was down 4 percent in the polls (shades of 2016) but I lost track of it in the confusion of the party. I knew Connor would be the Ralph Nader/Jill Stein of this election and draw votes from a major candidate but in this show, it’s the Republican he’s drawing from.

 

I definitely understood the emotional content of that vicious fight between Shiv and Tom—for like 45 minutes—on the balcony. None of this was just things you didn’t mean said in the heat of passion; you don’t bring up that many specific grudges unless you’ve been stewing about them for a long time.

 

George and Martha just laid into each other like never before, two scorpions on the attack. Shiv tells Tom he only wanted her for her DNA and that his family is a bunch of conservative hicks. Tom tells her she shouldn’t be a mother, which visibly wounds her. “I have given you endless approval and it doesn’t even fill you up because you’re broken,” Tom says. Shiv says she doesn’t care, which always comes off convincingly when you’re crying. Shiv tells Tom his betrayal at the wedding kept her away from her father in the final months of his life, something so true and hurtful to someone like Shiv that it was ice water in the face.

 

Tom is upset because Shiv is spreading around rumors that he’s going to be fired from ATN, but his wife says it was more of a light implication. Oh, OK then! An implication from your wife about your firing isn’t as hurtful as an outright statement. Shiv is giving Matsson inside information on her brothers’ plans to use the regulatory power of the SEC and DOJ to stop the sale of Waystar to GoJo. She tells Tom she’s “fucking her family” so she can get the huge payout she expects to get. I only have limited sympathy for this. I understand wanting to betray her brothers after they froze her out, but if she’s really that conflicted about it, she could just, like, not do it. “Fucking my family” is a loaded choice on the part of the writers. There’s no actual incest happening in the Roy family apart from some jokes, but they’re definitely insular.

 

Tom might get fired after laying off dozens of ATN staffers with some fake tears, saying what a difficult day it is—for him—and leaving the dirty work to Greg. Can you imagine how low you’d feel being laid off by Cousin Greg? You work hard for years and get the ax from, as the one Swede calls him, a “fucking dingleberry.”

 

So when is this funeral? Logan’s body must be embalmed to hell and back. I guess it has only been a few days since he died but the show seems to be getting Game of Thrones–esque with unrealistic travel times. They’ve had trips to Norway, California and who knows where else this week. The Roy siblings spent three seconds planning his funeral at lunch and left without eating. I haaate that—people on TV dramas always go out to dinner and leave without eating. I don’t know how many episodes of Dallas I watched where Sue Ellen went to lunch with someone and before they could even order, Sue Ellen told the other woman “stop screwing JR” or whatever and stomped out in a huff. I obviously love to eat so I don’t like this. That bread looked pretty good at the Roys’ lunch. I would have stayed.

 

It's a bit of a Gift of the Magi to see Ken and Matsson accusing one another of fraudulent business practices. As we saw last episode, the Roys edited Logan’s posthumous video to say falsely that Living+ would double the company’s revenue. Now we find out that Ebba, GoJo’s truly dangerous communications woman, that her company doubled its number of subscribers in India (I knew there was a reason why Matsson needed a quick sale). Both of these are blatantly illegal, so both sides are screwed in this deal.

 

The next episode will be election day, wo we’ll get some clarity on the election plot. Some of the Roys seem concerned about a hard-right president, but they’ll be fine no matter who wins, because they’re unimaginably wealthy. It must be nice to live in a triplex that’s so big that you have a spare room you can use for dozens of coats for your fancy party.

Weeds

Even the weeds have their seasons.

 

As spring sputters to a start, those little purple heads pop up tentatively, to see if April is really April.

 

As May crams full with birthday, Mother’s Day, Memorial Day, the green leaves cram my garden, invidiously. I tear through them with some resentment that nothing I can do will exorcise them.

 

By Fourth of July, the weeds evolve until clawing out of the ground, maliciously, their green a thick thatch that cannot be easily disposed of.

 

The weeds fade and find their phases like daffodils, geraniums and dahlias. Even the ugliest part of creation still has its distinct character.

 

 

Succession 4.6: Living+

These people are idiots. Idiots! It’s always been obvious that the Roy kids have no idea what they’re doing but it was really pronounced this week. From beyond the grave Logan nailed it: “You’re as bad as my fucking idiot kids!”

 

That was a truly impressive amount of bullshit from Ken. None of what he said made any sense to me. I thought maybe it was me not getting what he was saying to that finance guy but no—it was just manic bullshit that Ken was trying to sell to his subordinates and the investors. Living+ can expand human lifespans and let us be our best selves. It’s a dessert topping and a floor wax!

 

So many Roys this episode were trying to get subordinates to do impossible things: build a full-scale model house in a day (though I thought the clouds were kind of charming), turn around the movie studio by throwing money at it, editing the words of a dead man to project a better business forecast (more on this later).

 

Roman makes an ass of himself, firing the head of Waystar Studios on a whim. Gerri gives him an adult’s perspective that Joy had actual value to the company and industry connections, and will sue (and, I think, win). Roman doesn’t want to hear that so he fires Gerri (later to be walked back).

 

The confrontation between Roman and Gerri was vicious because these two actually care about each other, albeit in a twisted way. Roman has a point that Gerri doesn’t respect him professionally, as she calls him “a weak monarch in a dangerous interregnum.” But Roman is way off base in saying she’s incompetent. This hits Gerri where she lives. “I am good at my job,” she says with a quiet dignity.

 

I guess Ken does win in the sense that he drives up the stock prices far enough to threaten the sale to GoJo. Lukas Matsson makes a horrible Holocaust joke, comparing Living+ to concentration camps for seniors, but he deletes the post, so I guess that’s a win for Waystar? Ken is basically grieving on stage in his own twisted way, seeking his father’s posthumous, deceptively edited approval. The Roy kids are all grieving in their own way: Roman has his dad’s speech about Living+ edited to berate his micro-dick and Shiv schedules some time to cry.

 

Meanwhile, Shiv and Tom are two crazy kids who truly belong together, one-upping one another in public by biting one another’s wrists. Tom wins. “Tom Wambsgans finally make me feel something,” Shiv flirts acidly. They have sex and there’s a moment when Sarah Snook lets Shiv’s defenses drop, but the moment passes and Tom doesn’t see it. Tom admits he betrayed her partially to support his financial lifestyle. He says he’d even live in a trailer park with her, and they both laugh. It’s a toxic stew of love and pain and money and cynicism. By the way, what’s going on with that fetus?

 

My God, that edited video of Logan speaking to the investors was breathtakingly tasteless, even for these people. The man isn’t even buried yet. I wonder if Roman and Shiv were prepared to see that. Can you imagine how you’d feel if nobody warned you your dad’s image would be projected on a huge video screen days after he died while you were still processing it?

 

Not only tasteless, that video was also illegal. Greg ordered the video editor to make the projections about Living+ seem much rosier than Logan had projected. The lie is that this new real estate venture will double profits. The Roys better hope nobody finds that original video footage, because they just defrauded their investors, and that will get them sued—and probably prosecuted—into oblivion.