‘The Righteous Gemstones’ Season 2 Trailer: Danny McBride Goes Full ‘Succession’ (Video) Guests are supposed to check their bags and coats upon entrance because “Kendall would like his present to be everyone being present.” An actor in vintage nurse getup directs them through a pink inflatable tunnel that is “disgustingly Kendall” while saying, “Congratulations, you’ve just been born into the world of Kendall Roy!” Welcome to Hell. Kendall’s party staff, tasked with carrying out his monstrously egomaniacal vision, supplies as much of the episode’s humor as any of the main cast. Tom, who still hasn’t come down from his post-pardon high, tells Shiv, “My senses are heightened, the air smells sweeter, it’s like I can see the poetry in all the little mundane things! … I’m going to get so f–d up.” To which his nonplussed wife responds, “You don’t need my permission.” One by one, guests arrive in their tinted SUVs. under a banner that says “The Notorious Ken: Ready to Die.” The entrance to his decked-out birthday bash is adorned with a giant photo of himself styled after The Notorious B.I.G. “Too Much Birthday,” IndeedĮvidently, Kendall hasn’t given up his white boy rapper dreams. Before they leave, he slips Roman an envelope to give to his estranged eldest son.
(Cue the sound of a thousand Greg-Tom shippers clacking away on their keyboards).Ī furious Logan wants to take the deal off the table, but Roman and Shiv insist that acquiring GoJo may be Waystar’s last chance at avoiding the “legacy media graveyard.” They offer to tag-team on recruiting Matsson at Kendall’s party, and Logan begrudgingly agrees. Without explanation, he flips over his desk and bounces around the room like he just snorted a mountain of coke before delivering the news with a kiss on Greg’s head. Tom – who has been eerily calm throughout the scene – excuses himself to Greg’s (Nicholas Braun) crummy office. “I’ll remember,” he says to Tom in a nod to when he pledged to go to prison for his father-in-law, if it came down to that. Logan proposes a toast to Waystar and “to justice,” as if those two things are at all compatible. Smith-Cameron) has good news from the DOJ regarding the cruise ship scandal: for a large payout, they won’t be needing to put any Waystar executives behind bars. In the C-suite, they’re shocked to find their father and his inner circle celebrating with champagne. This does not bode well.Īt the office, Tom scrolls through images of prisons while Shiv and Roman gossip about their favorite topics, Kendall and whether or not Logan and his secretary are sleeping together. Naomi looks on with a mixture of pride and discomfort. There’s a huge wooden cross being wheeled behind him, giving a nauseating sneak preview of what is to come at his birthday party later in the day. That doesn’t mean he spares any emotional intensity where “L to the OG” was deeply mortifying, his run-through of Billy Joel’s “Honesty” mines new depths of Sad Boy irony deserving of its own separate analysis.
Mercifully, we are all saved from death by secondhand embarrassment because Kendall is actually a pretty good singer. Remember when he performed an original rap at his father’s commemoration party back in Season 2? “Too Much Birthday” opens with a massive event space, empty except for a crew of workers, Kendall’s girlfriend, Naomi Pierce (Annabelle Dexter-Jones), and Kendall, slowly raising a microphone to his mouth. ‘Succession’ Season 3 Episode 6 Recap: The Roy Family Takes the Republican Party by Storm “Kenfest” On The Horizon Macall B.