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The Hebrew name chosen for "Succession" has always hidden within it a distortion of the original intention.
Until now he could be gracefully ignored, but now he literally hovers over the all-out war that unfolded just minutes after Logan's death (some would argue that even while he was still breathing his last breaths).
The original name posits inheritance as a theme that defines and shapes all the acting characters.
This is not only an inheritance in the financial or capital sense of the word, but also passing on the baton of a legacy, choosing a figure that will continue the path of the testator, according to his worldview and style.
The plural form of the Hebrew name creates the illusion that the focus of the series is on the potential heirs themselves, not just the Roy children.
Everything we know about her indicates the opposite.
It is the inheritance that shaped the lives of its protagonists, turned them into the people they grew to be.
She is what drives them, their choices and their relationships.
There is no more beautiful and poetic way to see this truth than the perfect metaphor for the Kendall-Logan relationship.
The document found in the father's safe displays the two statuses that Kendall has always fluctuated between: marked and deleted.
It's not just the marking, but also the full name written on the page: Kendall Logan Roy.
Like burning ownership already at the stage of granting the name.
All his life Kendall was written off or marked, sometimes he was both at the same time.
As he looks at the document you can literally see the wheels in his mind turning.
It's not just Shiv's exact stab at how Logan's markings on the page can be interpreted, but the conflict that has accompanied Kendall all his life: does his father believe in him or despise him?
Is it made of the materials of a media mogul or is it the model for a disappointing sequel?
"He made me hate him and then he died," Kendall tells Frank.
"I feel he didn't like me. I let him down."
The tragedy is that Kendall was already very close to breaking out of this destructive cycle.
The process he went through since drowning in the pool, led him very close to self-acceptance.
He even dared to reveal his feelings and talked to a psychologist to deal with the grief for Logan, a very unacceptable situation in the Roy household.
It did come with the clichés of Chinese sages, but something in it was healed as Frank himself testifies.
And so, even in his death, Logan continues to haunt Kendall's soul, continues to play on the same demons that accompanied him throughout his life.
On the one hand the appreciation and admiration for what his father established with his own hands, and on the other hand the deep dislike of his fathering style and the way he used the promise of inheritance to hurt him again and again.
Kendall had already come to terms with the fact that their hatred had become a done deal, proof of his failure to earn his father's appreciation.
The appearance of the document returns him again to the toxic space between promise and disappointment, clinging to the hope that maybe Logan still believed in him despite everything, and it doesn't really matter when.
And if Logan did believe, then the inheritance once again defines Kendall.
He is no longer the businessman free to build empires as he pleases, but the burden bearer of Wistar, the new Halogen.
We've already seen flashes of logic in Kendall along the way: at the press conference to announce the second season, in the coup attempts of the first season and the third season, but it seems that this time he is allowing himself to go to the dark side as he never dared when his father was alive.
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marked and deleted.
Kendall, "Heirs" season 4 episode 4 (Photo: HBO)
During the previous episode, Kendall warned Shiv and Roman about the pit into which Hugo fell, with the kind help of his daughter.
When Shiv wondered if it was possible to make the plane with the body in it continue to circle in the air to allow them to "think", Kendall explained that such moves could "restrict their freedom of movement", a slight hint of prison.
As long as the news of Logan's death is known only to his immediate circle, using this information for commercial purposes (such as selling the company's shares, with the understanding that they are going to drop as soon as the news of Logan's departure becomes public knowledge) is considered insider trading, an offense punishable by a fine of up to five million dollars and 20 years in prison.
The fact that Hugo was the one who gave the information to his daughter before it became public, makes both of them partners in crime.
"Heirs" perfectly picks up this ball in the first scene after the opening, where Kendall eavesdrops on Hugo and Julia's conversation, "forgets" about him for the entire episode, except for Hugo's brief explanation scene to Kendall,
One of the exciting elements of this season was the reunion of Roy's children, despite the fragility of their relationship.
The departure of the great conflict that united them is most likely the beginning of the end of this union.
Seemingly, they still have a common incentive to protect their interests against the countless factors stirring up the Wistar-Gojo deal, but now the constant suspicion, the paranoia and demons, the never-ending race to be Logan's chosen, have also arisen, especially now - when he can no longer thwart their moves .
When Matheson calls, Kendall suggests that Shiv and Roman take a moment to think and "not sell Manhattan for beads."
This is one of the great myths about the origins of modern Manhattan, which was purchased in 1626 by the Dutch Empire's West India Trading Company from a local tribe, for what was described as "beads and cheap jewelry" worth $24.
Historical research questions the veracity of this story, which oozes Western condescension over Native Americans, but it remains a symbol of unskilled side-exploitation deals.
Kendall realizes that everyone involved in the deal now sees him and his younger brother and sister that way.
He is of course not wrong.
"Stuffy and obtuse," Tom calls them, "perhaps not the most qualified right now to get the job," Carl adds.
Others probably have other nicknames that they keep to themselves.
The Swedish buyer smells blood as well.
When the three call him, he lets them talk to his assistant, and hopes that the disdainful move will make them wrong and prove to him that the power has once again passed into his hands.
The video call with Kendall at the karaoke night was a mistake on Matheson's part, it conveyed a distress that Kendall was quick to recognize and take advantage of, realizing that Matheson had forced a deal on Logan that was convenient for him.
This time it's the kids who are wrong.
Shiv nervously asks if Matheson still intends to buy the company, Kendall and Roman wonder why Matheson doesn't want to get on the phone, none of them are still able to take responsibility and lead the process.
Matheson uses this vacuum to move the negotiations to his home turf. The last time a negotiation took place in Matheson's territory, even the great Logan had to grind his teeth and surrender.
It is hard to believe that Roman and Kendall are capable of a better result.
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Will the connection be saved?
The Roy brothers, "Heirs" season 4 episode 4 (Photo: HBO)
For three episodes, "Heirs" kept the secret of Shiv's capricious behavior, which seemed for episodes not to match what we have come to expect from her.
The knowledge that she is pregnant against the background of upheavals in her life, makes everything much more logical and almost as usual also tragic.
It is hard to ignore the feeling that Shiv hoped, even if subconsciously, that the results of the amniocentesis would come back abnormal.
Horrible as it sounds, it would have made things easier for her.
Motherhood comes with a huge burden that shakes Shiv's essence.
First and foremost, he undermines her hopes of fitting in at the top of such a male world.
In the inextricable connection between "Heirs" and the Murdoch family, Shiv is Elizabeth, the youngest daughter, the most promising and the most qualified of all Rupert Murdoch's children to succeed him, but also the one sidelined because of her gender.
The addition of mothers to the cauldron almost guarantees that Shiv will be perceived as someone who is not "mentally available" to run an empire.
In other words: under the guise of mourning for Logan, Shiv is mainly grieving for herself.
This existential crisis is also connected to the strained relationship with Caroline, which was reflected in that chilling conversation in "Kiantshire", the eighth episode of the third season.
Caroline then confessed that she probably should have preferred raising dogs to children.
Shiv's entire essence as a woman was built from the trauma of this relationship with Caroline, in her case it seems much more than from the relationship with Logan.
This is why she always seeks to escape from dealing with feelings and emotions, to take a position of control and allow herself to bury the emotion under a thick shield of cynicism.
But now she has no one to play these power games with.
All the questions of whether she is doomed to repeat her mother's mistakes, of whether she is really interested in this process - come crashing down on her at once.
Throughout the entire episode, "Heirs" makes sure to highlight the wordless conversations that take place between Shiv and Tom: when he first arrives at the house and looks for her with his eyes, when he comes to call the children to come to meetings, time and time again she fights herself not to convey weakness, not to confess to Tom what is in her eyes is her final defeat: the fact that she is carrying their child.
According to the conversation with the gynecologist and the plan to schedule another test at week 20, it can be assumed that Shiv is in her fourth month.
Physically, she will not be able to hide the secret for much longer, so all her actions become much more frantic, much more desperate, in what seems to her like impending defeat.
Against the background of all this, her fall towards the end of the episode causes a beat to be missed.
She rushes to display a last desperate sliver of control, but the outbursts at the others for their inappropriate joy hide the fact that she would be happy if someone else were sad for her too.
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Shiv, "Heirs" season 4 episode 4 (Photo: HBO)
On the other side of this relationship, Tom seems more lost than ever.
Pathetically trying to find some edge to hold on to in the succession struggle.
He starts with the old guard, where sympathy for him tends to zero.
"You're a lazy bum who no one trusts," Karl tells him, "the only man who believed in you is dead, and you're married to the boss's daughter - and she doesn't even like you. You're really screwed."
Kendall admits he likes it when he waves another attempt, but after that the attempts become much more accurate.
First with Shiv, when Tom shows nobility again and refuses to be dragged into the game of humiliation she tries to drag him into.
Instead, he recreates their first acquaintance in France, a period he describes as difficult for Shiv.
He reminds her of how he used to send her handwritten notes, and she confessed to him that she loved it.
Unknowingly, Tom touches Shiv's exposed nerves, who is indeed in a hurry to leave and put on a protective layer again - but secretly this is the comfort she was missing.
Tom then reaches out to Roman, and with true loganic skill pushes his personal paranoia button.
Reminds him that he is the finance manager and was involved in the Matheson deal, and that he has no reason to give up a controlling position now.
Roman tries to wave him off with a string of typical insults, but those words change what appeared to be a reconciliation with the temporary lead being handed to Kendall.
Karl's blunt definition is still correct.
Tom's situation is still fairly screwed up, but it's not certain that his string-pulling is as desperate as it seems.
In the lonely and cold world of the War of Succession, allies are a rare commodity, and Tom has already proven himself capable of playing all sides for the privilege of serving.
Which leads us almost naturally to the confrontation between Marsha and Kerry, another relationship completely affected by Logan's presence.
Just two episodes ago Kerry made it clear that Marsha was "shopping in Milan. Forever", and here she is staggering back to the house she thought was hers, only to find Marsha in control again.
Did Logan really talk to Marsha "morning, afternoon and intimately every evening"?
Most likely not.
Nothing in Logan's character betrays such sentimentality, certainly when Kerry was there as a replacement.
What's much more likely is that Marsha has been playing this game a lot longer than the upgraded personal assistant, and she knows how to mark her territory and form alliances in a way that Kerry hasn't learned yet.
Kerry arrives at the house clearly to get a chance to close the circle.
To look at the room where she slept, to realize that it was really over, that her ticket to another life was lost.
It's a small, touching request on her part, to come up and identify with these feelings for a moment.
Devoid of any allies she poses no threat, but Marsha is unwilling to show compassion for the one who has taken her place.
She is busy dividing the loot and selling it at an exorbitant price to Connor, making sure to get herself guarantees that she didn't get from Logan.
Kerry begs Roman to try to help her find the marriage documents that Logan promised her to fill out, although it is doubtful that any existed.
And even in the small chance that they did exist, it makes sense that Marsha would have located and taken care of "losing them" as Carl suggested to Frank to do with Kendall's document.
One moment she was the wife of a media mogul and TV host, a real Cinderella, then the clock struck midnight and she was escorted by security guards to a taxi that would take her to the subway.
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Tom, "Heirs" season 4 episode 4 (Photo: HBO)
All the instincts buried within Kendall come alive with the document.
He quickly builds a coalition that will support his candidacy as interim chairman: first with Frank (who was his partner in the first coup attempt in the first season), then with Stewie (another partner, who also reminds him of the results of that attempt), Sandy France, his mother (with whom he corresponds in messages ) and finally his brother and sister. They are all board members. He quickly recognizes Shiv and Roman's discomfort with his sole rise to power, and chooses the more convenient ally. Roman is much easier to maneuver than Shiv, the part where he wants everyone to get along is real.
With the appointment assured, he feels comfortable going behind Roman's back just minutes after pledging to his brother and sister for complete unity of ranks.
He points out to Hugo that the media framing that Logan was incompetent in his last days, and was being run like a puppet by his children, is what his father would have done if he were in his place.
Self-convincing aside, he's not wrong.
To ensure that the temporary becomes permanent, Kendall cannot be "like Logan but modern."
No one will buy this product.
But the story about the rebellious offspring who took over the company in the twilight of the great tycoon's days, sounds much more reliable to the family history.
This story puts Kendall in a position of power, as an initiator, perhaps for the first time ever.
The one who has been fucked all his life and now is the one holding the dildo.
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