Ouch, Rome. 🥴 Succession
What Roman meant about “bloodline” is suggesting, not-so-subtly, that Kendall’s children weren’t biologically his, and therefore that he wasn’t worthy of carrying on the Roy’s family legacy. There’s a fair bit of buildup to this, though. After election night when ATN, WayStar’s news division, prematurely announces that the Republican candidate, Jeryd Mencken, has won the presidency, Roman walks out onto the streets where people are protesting.
In a last bid for solidarity, Shiv and Kendall make a trip to their mother’s home in Barbados where Roman is hiding out. When Shiv finds out that her estranged husband, Tom, has been meeting with Matsson to make his own case for the company’s CEO and push the Roys out, the three siblings seemingly make a pact and elect Kendall “king” and we see him smiling in a rare moment of happiness and vulnerability.
Then, when the WayStar board is 6-6. When Shiv holds the deciding vote on whether the company should accept the GoJo deal, she stalls. Despite initially promising Kendall the CEO position, and to block GoJo’s acquisition, Shiv tells him she can’t do it. “Why?” he pleads in desperation. She tells him: “I love you, but I can’t f—king stomach you.”
“I’m the eldest boy!” Kendall explodes, which, by the way, is a very obvious omission of Connor, the forgotten Roy and actual eldest child. “And, you know, it mattered to him. He wanted this to go on,” Kendall says, making reference to his father’s wish that the business would stay within the family. “She’s the bloodline, though,” Roman chimes in. “If you’re going to play that card, dad’s view was that yours weren’t real … not real real. They are a pair of randos.
Indeed, Kendall’s daughter Sophie was always known to be adopted but fans also now speculate that Iverson, Ken’s second, was conceived via a sperm donor. It hit a nerve with Ken and it also brings special significance to a line Logan uttered in the infamous “Boars on the Floor” episode in season two.
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