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She also advised him to take the buyout – partly in the hope that Waystar would stop sending their goons to dig for dirt on his parenting. Rava told Kendall their children made him a present, but when he looked for it it had gone awol. Next came an awkward exchange between Ken and ex-wife Rava (Natalie Gold). We finally met “the Odin of coding”, played by Alexander Skarsgård as a surly techbro only interested in the three Ps: “Privacy, pussy, pasta.” When Kendall realised his siblings had only turned up to woo Matsson, the hurt host refused to let them into his VIP treehouse and schmoozed him himself. Girlfriend Naomi Pierce (Annabelle Dexter-Jones) suggested he take the money but he was far too embroiled in the family psychodrama. Kendall shakily dismissed it as a “Trojan mindfuck”. A birthday card bore the message “Cash out and fuck off” with a share purchase document to sign, buying Kendall out of Waystar for $2bn. The wheels came off when he opened that envelope from his father. Kendall was already thrumming with tension. Where’s John Cusack with a boombox when you need him? All he had was Tom, gurning on a cocktail of happiness, envy and the wrong drugs. Greg admitted her acceptance might be down to “rancour or pique” but was too ecstatic to care. Happily, imbued with party spirit, he asked anyway and Comfry said yes – partly as two-fingers up to Kendall. This was turning into a John Hughes movie. When embittered Kendall warned off Greg from pursuing an employee, Greg limply punched a big screen showing the host’s image. Greg turned all gallant gentleman (“Thank you kindly, fair maiden”), recalling season two’s Senate hearing (“If it is to be said, so it is”). The leggy princeling’s ardour was further cooled when Comfry warned that she might have to orchestrate a smear campaign against him as part of the legal battle. She’s a goddess and you’re a 9ft Cro-Magnon man.” Thanks for the pep talk, wingman. Tom told Greg she was out of his league: “It’s like a haunted scarecrow asking out Jackie Onassis. Photograph: Macall Polay/HBOĪll series, Greg Sprinkles has been making eyes at Kendall’s PR assistant, Comfry (Dasha Nekrasova). Not even Josh (Adrien Brody) or Stewy (Arian Moayed) found room in their iCals. Can’t think why Zadie Smith and Chuck D didn’t show up. It was a theme park ride around Kendall’s unhappy upbringing. Connor took umbrage at his headline – “Connor Roy elected president (of shitting his own bag)”, referring to soilage on a camping trip – and demanded it be taken down. He was particularly proud of a gallery of spoof newspaper front pages. The concept was a journey through Kendall’s life: from nursery, through childhood (He-Man lunchboxes, reconstruction of his treehouse), to his media career and burning down daddy’s office. Party time! To enter, so to speak, guests walked through a pink “vulval art” tunnel, which hardly helped Roman’s Oedipal issues. Something told me it wasn’t a Purple Ronnie card. Logan gave messenger boy Romulus an envelope for Kendall. Matsson was due to attend “Kenfest” that night, so Shiv and Roman agreed to go and court him. Logan sanctioned vice-chair Frank Vernon (Peter Friedman) to look at acquiring rival news giant Pierce again, which felt like a retrograde move. Fuck him.” It was now accepted that Logan was having an affair with Kerry. Furious Logan insisted the deal was off and PA Kerry (Zoë Winters) chimed in: “He thinks he’s a genius but he’s made one good piece of tech. Slight snag: Gojo founder Lukas Matsson sent “sherpas” to the meeting instead.
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Tom couldn’t enjoy the moment without making it weird. He proceeded to flip Greg’s desk and cathartically vandalise his office, before kissing him on the forehead.
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No longer “Terminal Tom”, he celebrated by visiting cousin Greg (Nicholas Braun) in his broom cupboard. Tom offering himself up as “the blood sacrifice” might yet prove a smart play. “I’ll remember,” growled Logan (Brian Cox). Waystar were likely to get away with a hefty fine, nothing custodial. Gerri Kellman (J Smith-Cameron) had heard from her DoJ contacts that Kendall had exaggerated the explosiveness of the incriminating documents. With Kendall ostracised, his younger siblings scrapping for supremacy has become the default setting.įirst, though, fizz was served. The discussion descended into yet another squabble between Shiv (Sarah Snook) and Roman (Kieran Culkin). Up the Royscraper, Tom Wambsgans (Matthew Macfadyen, this season’s MVP) was scrolling through federal prisons, while the exec team debated the acquisition of tech firm Gojo, a deal first mentioned by Kendall in episode four. Photograph: Macall Polay/HBO ‘The Waystar Two are free’