History Awesome / Succession

'''Kendall:''' ''[Clearly wrong-footed and trying to reassert authority]'' Hey. Hey hey hey. Easy. Easy. [=CEO=]. [=CFO=].

* In “The Disruption”, seeing the FBI raid the Waystar Roco building is an awesome moment of catharsis, as Logan realises he can’t tell these people to “fuck off” like he does to everyone else, and has to accept that he’s been beaten here.
* The season finale All The Bells Say" features the Roy siblings 'finally' uniting, driven by their efforts to stop their father from selling Waystar to Mattson. Them plotting in the car, storming the proceedings, and Roman finally having the courage to defy Logan to his face, all a sight to behold. Unfortunately they still lose, thanks to…
** In a tragic but also brilliant subversion of expectations, Tom’s power play. Having stated earlier in the season in “What It Takes” that “he’s never seen Logan get fucked, not once”, and after a seasons worth of realising that Shiv and many others doesn’t value him like he wants them to, Tom betrays them all and locks himself (and Greg) in for a top position at the new company whereas the Roy siblings who have looked down at him will likely get nothing. The final shot of the season, with Tom comforting Shiv as the camera zooms in on her expression realising what just happened, echoes the final scene of Film/TheGodfather.

--> '''Ewan''': [[ShamingTheMob What sort of people would stop their brother speaking for the sake of a share price?]] It is not for me to judge my brother. History will tell that story. I can just give you a couple of instances about him. You probably all know we came across the first time during the war for our safety. But the engines of our ship let go and the rest of the convoy sailed on without us, leaving us adrift. They told us children that if we spoke, or coughed, or moved an inch that the U-boats would catch the vibrations through the hull and we would die in the drink right there in the hold. Three nights and two days we stayed quiet. A four year old and a five and a half year old speaking with our eyes. So, there's a little sob story. And once we were over, our uncle, who, so to speak, was a character, well, they had a little money and they sent Logan away to a better school and he hated it. He just hated it. He wasn't well, he was sick, and he mewed and he cried and in the end he got out and he came home, under his own steam. But when he got back, our little sister, she was a baby, she was there by then, she…uh…He always believed that he brought home the polio with him, which took her. I don't even know if that's true. But our aunt and uncle certainly did nothing to disabuse him of that notion. They let it lie with him. I loved him, I suppose, and I suppose some of you did too, in whatever way he would let us and we could manage. But I can't help but say he has wrought some of the most terrible things. He was a man who has here and there drawn in the edges of the world. Now and then darkened the skies a little. Closed men's hearts. Fed that dark flame in men, the hard mean hard-relenting flame that keeps their heart warm while another grows cold. Their grain stashed while another goes hungry. And even has the temerity to tell that hard but funny joke about the man in the cold. You can get a little high, a little mighty when you're warm. Oh yes, he gave away a few million of his billions but he was not a generous man. He was mean, and he made but a mean estimation of the world and he fed a certain kind of meagerness in men. 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 sometime he decided not to try anymore and it was a terrible shame. Godspeed my brother. And God bless.

--> '''Ewan''': [[ShamingTheMob What sort of people would stop their brother speaking for the sake of a share price?]] It is not for me to judge my brother. History will tell that story. I can just give you a couple of instances about him. You probably all know we came across the first time during the war for our safety. But the engines of our ship let go and the rest of the convoy sailed on without us, leaving us adrift. They told us children that if we spoke, or coughed, or moved an inch that the U-boats would catch the vibrations through the hull and we would die in the drink right there in the hold. Three nights and two days we stayed quiet. A four year old and a five and a half year old speaking with our eyes. So, there's a little sob story. And once we were over, our uncle, who, so to speak, was a character, well, they had a little money and they sent Logan away to a better school and he hated it. He just hated it. He wasn't well, he was sick, and he mewed and he cried and in the end he got out and he came home, under his own steam. But when he got back, our little sister, she was a baby, she was there by then, she…uh…He always believed that he brought home the polio with him, which took her. I don't even know if that's true. But our aunt and uncle certainly did nothing to disabuse him of that notion. They let it lie with him. I loved him, I suppose, and I suppose some of you did too, in whatever way he would let us and we could manage. But I can't help but say he has wrought some of the most terrible things. He was a man who has here and there drawn in the edges of the world. Now and then darkened the skies a little. Closed men's hearts. Fed that dark flame in men, the hard mean hard-relenting flame that keeps their heart warm while another grows cold. Their grain stashed while another goes hungry. And even has the temerity to tell that hard but funny joke about the man in the cold. You can get a little high, a little mighty when you're warm. Oh yes, he gave away a few million of his billions but he was not a generous man. He was mean, and he made but a mean estimation of the world and he fed a certain kind of meagreness in men. Perhaps he had to because he had a meagreness about him and maybe I do about me too, I don't know. I try. I try. I don't know when but sometime he decided not to try anymore and it was a terrible shame. Godspeed my brother. And God bless.