It's never called out too much, but none of the Roys have any interest or taste in art despite being in the media and entertainment industry, having been raised to commoditize it by their ruthless and soulless father.
They all gripe about the uselessness of their charity to bring dance to the disadvantaged.
When watching the dance made possible by their grants, they all but roll their eyes in boredom.
Roman hates the kids' film that his studio created even though it's apparently quite popular, and he breaks up with his girlfriend for watching it.
While employees of Dust believe that they're advancing the art world, Kendall can only relate to them in economic terms and tells them that their business boils down to ripping off art collectors.
Connor tells his playwright girlfriend, whom he says he loves, that no one actually likes theater.
When Frank references Coriolanus, Logan rolls his eyes and makes a cutting remark about him owning a library card.
Most of the first season involves Kendall working to put a bear hug (a hostile offer to buy Waystar that is nonetheless too lucrative for shareholders to ignore) in motion, but at the last minute Logan himself makes an offer Kendall can't ignore - calling off the takeover in exchange for Logan pulling strings so that a manslaughter investigation into Kendall is called off. When Kendall tearfully accepts, the deal is sealed when Logan pulls him in for a literal bear hug.
This is easy to miss if you don't know anything about Scottish football, but Eduard Asgarov's plan to bring Heart of Midlothian into the European Super League is complete nonsense (even before the whole concept of the Super League went under) — there are only two teams that really matter in Scottish football, neither of them ever had a chance of getting a place in the Super League, and in any case, Hearts isn't one of them. Roman, who genuinely does not know anything about Scottish football, never realises this, but it only makes his conclusion at the end of the season ring even truer — that the Asgarovs are unreliable bullshitters and that the Roys shouldn't count on them.
The title of "The Honeymoon States" has a double meaning. The states Connor and Willa plan to visit, ostensibly for their honeymoon, are electoral battleground states in US Presidential elections, making it a thinly veiled ploy for Connor's political ambitions. But it is also a reference for the other characters in the episode using Logan's wake as a battleground to jockey for leadership of Waystar Royco.
