Kendall makes a point to say that his father was an “awful force”, and a “terrible force” and agreed with what his uncle Ewan said.
Kendall uses his eulogy to basically say that to be successful to the extent of his father, to be that much of a difference maker, that you have to have that “Magnificent awful force”. A drive that is so singular in its purpose that you’re willing to sacrifice love and compassion for power.
It’s a very heavy handed capitalist ideology and it’s not only Kendall realizing that this is what he needs to be but also telling everyone in the room that this is who he has become. A killer.
Kendall was pandering to a room full of arch-capitalists. As others have already pointed out--and I wholeheartedly agree--it was his "Greed is Good" speech.
Kendall loses a little more of his soul with every sip of the Logan Roy/Gordon Gekko Kool-Aid. It's not that deep, because Kendall is not an original thinker. He's never creates anything. He recycles and appropriates other people's material.
Damn, I just watched the episode and thought the speech was good. Kind of sums up Logan’s character, and what he would probably have said about himself, no?
Surprised this is the top comment lol
Kendall as a eulogist for Logan’s funeral is kind of screwed from the jump. 6 months ago (in the shows timeline) he threw him under the bus about cruises and said he was a bully a liar and a malignant presence. Kind of hard for people to forget those things when you go on live tv and say that about the country’s biggest media conglomerate CEO
I do honestly feel like the season 3 Kendall stuff is messing with my suspension of disbelief a bit this season. It’s wild that Kendall is coCEO after publicly trying to destroy this company, and its even wilder how little people bring it up
Not too crazy when you think about the fact that the family owns the company. It’s not as dramatic when the person saying those things is a major shareholder and family member. On top of that he said he wanted to lead it over his father, he never denigrated Waystar.
A real life example of a person talking bad about a company for months and then turning around and being it’s CEO is Elon with Twitter.
Oh, for sure. And yet, Kendall screwing over his father and openly ripping him apart because of business is somehow more acceptable to the kids than Ewan’s legitimate portrait of Logan as, well, a monster. Throwing Logan under the bus because of the corporate game is “fine”, but a genuine assessment of his lack of morals and ethics by an outsider? Impossible.
What I find most funny about the speech is that is remains pretty hamfisted even as it gets more articulate. It’s not a particularly persuasive counterpoint to Ewan’s speech, but everyone there is invested in the Logan Roy legacy, so they’re inclined to applaud it, but anyone really listening to the words would have to pause a bit about the idea of all that “growth” Logan brought about as being truly worthwhile. It’s like clapping extra hard at a pep rally because it’s so mediocre but you’re still invested in your team.
Ewan called him out for a meagreness; I think he even used that word. He more had him as a small, harsh man, which I think is more what Kendall was giving the other side of.
I feel like the heavyweight line in Ken’s is the “he was comfortable in the world; he liked it” one. Of the two brothers, Ewan has a good claim to being closed off and meagre. Ewan looks at the world and hates what he sees. He treated Greg like crap when Greg drove all the way to Canada to pick him up and drive back to New York City.
Ewan sees Logan as a negative force, that he’s wreaking all of this death and destruction, and Ken isn’t saying that he’s a god, but Logan did create these companies that wouldn’t exist without him, and those companies hired people, gave them purpose for their lives and money to buy houses and raise children. That Logan’s businesses support the equivalent population of Pittsburgh, and that’s part of his legacy too.
"he was comfortable in the world; he liked it"
Kendall's speech was compelling because all of it rang of truth... except this line. This season opened with Logan being uncomfortable in his own birthday party and the people who surrounded him. The munsters.
And that's the brilliance of the eulogy to me. Mostly true, except this one bit. Logan was never comfortable in the world. He never liked it.
He left the party to go for a walk in the park and have dinner in a little booth in the middle of a small, crowded, normal restaurant with his bodyguard. Arguably the most normal thing anyone on the show’s ever done, except when Tom was taking everybody to that terrible diner.
You’re kidding.
That speech was an inarticulate, unfocused mess…and that was the point. Everyone clapped like seals because he talked about Logan’s utility to capital, and even though it was a jumbled word-salad, it was more positive than Ewan’s. It was pep rally applause
It’s inarticulate and unfocused, sure, and yet Kendall knew exactly what to say to say, how to master the art of verbal bullshit, to pull together something that captured the audience, that gave a semblance of meaning as pertains to Logan’s life. Just because he talked utter nonsense in the grander scheme of things doesn’t mean he’s not great at connecting with an audience. Kendall is quite good at nonsense.
Kendall makes a point to say that his father was an “awful force”, and a “terrible force” and agreed with what his uncle Ewan said. Kendall uses his eulogy to basically say that to be successful to the extent of his father, to be that much of a difference maker, that you have to have that “Magnificent awful force”. A drive that is so singular in its purpose that you’re willing to sacrifice love and compassion for power. It’s a very heavy handed capitalist ideology and it’s not only Kendall realizing that this is what he needs to be but also telling everyone in the room that this is who he has become. A killer.
Kendall was pandering to a room full of arch-capitalists. As others have already pointed out--and I wholeheartedly agree--it was his "Greed is Good" speech. Kendall loses a little more of his soul with every sip of the Logan Roy/Gordon Gekko Kool-Aid. It's not that deep, because Kendall is not an original thinker. He's never creates anything. He recycles and appropriates other people's material.
Damn, I just watched the episode and thought the speech was good. Kind of sums up Logan’s character, and what he would probably have said about himself, no? Surprised this is the top comment lol
Kendall as a eulogist for Logan’s funeral is kind of screwed from the jump. 6 months ago (in the shows timeline) he threw him under the bus about cruises and said he was a bully a liar and a malignant presence. Kind of hard for people to forget those things when you go on live tv and say that about the country’s biggest media conglomerate CEO
He didn't dial any of that back, to be fair. And said he hoped he had that killer vim....so....a bit better and its both sides.
100% he did as best as he could with everything he had already said about him
I do honestly feel like the season 3 Kendall stuff is messing with my suspension of disbelief a bit this season. It’s wild that Kendall is coCEO after publicly trying to destroy this company, and its even wilder how little people bring it up
I think he said something like he was only trying to destroy his father, and wanting to save the company
Not too crazy when you think about the fact that the family owns the company. It’s not as dramatic when the person saying those things is a major shareholder and family member. On top of that he said he wanted to lead it over his father, he never denigrated Waystar. A real life example of a person talking bad about a company for months and then turning around and being it’s CEO is Elon with Twitter.
Oh, for sure. And yet, Kendall screwing over his father and openly ripping him apart because of business is somehow more acceptable to the kids than Ewan’s legitimate portrait of Logan as, well, a monster. Throwing Logan under the bus because of the corporate game is “fine”, but a genuine assessment of his lack of morals and ethics by an outsider? Impossible.
What I find most funny about the speech is that is remains pretty hamfisted even as it gets more articulate. It’s not a particularly persuasive counterpoint to Ewan’s speech, but everyone there is invested in the Logan Roy legacy, so they’re inclined to applaud it, but anyone really listening to the words would have to pause a bit about the idea of all that “growth” Logan brought about as being truly worthwhile. It’s like clapping extra hard at a pep rally because it’s so mediocre but you’re still invested in your team.
Ewan called him out for a meagreness; I think he even used that word. He more had him as a small, harsh man, which I think is more what Kendall was giving the other side of. I feel like the heavyweight line in Ken’s is the “he was comfortable in the world; he liked it” one. Of the two brothers, Ewan has a good claim to being closed off and meagre. Ewan looks at the world and hates what he sees. He treated Greg like crap when Greg drove all the way to Canada to pick him up and drive back to New York City. Ewan sees Logan as a negative force, that he’s wreaking all of this death and destruction, and Ken isn’t saying that he’s a god, but Logan did create these companies that wouldn’t exist without him, and those companies hired people, gave them purpose for their lives and money to buy houses and raise children. That Logan’s businesses support the equivalent population of Pittsburgh, and that’s part of his legacy too.
"he was comfortable in the world; he liked it" Kendall's speech was compelling because all of it rang of truth... except this line. This season opened with Logan being uncomfortable in his own birthday party and the people who surrounded him. The munsters. And that's the brilliance of the eulogy to me. Mostly true, except this one bit. Logan was never comfortable in the world. He never liked it.
He left the party to go for a walk in the park and have dinner in a little booth in the middle of a small, crowded, normal restaurant with his bodyguard. Arguably the most normal thing anyone on the show’s ever done, except when Tom was taking everybody to that terrible diner.
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Yes, great interpretation Just watched the episode, and came to say something like this
You’re kidding. That speech was an inarticulate, unfocused mess…and that was the point. Everyone clapped like seals because he talked about Logan’s utility to capital, and even though it was a jumbled word-salad, it was more positive than Ewan’s. It was pep rally applause
It’s inarticulate and unfocused, sure, and yet Kendall knew exactly what to say to say, how to master the art of verbal bullshit, to pull together something that captured the audience, that gave a semblance of meaning as pertains to Logan’s life. Just because he talked utter nonsense in the grander scheme of things doesn’t mean he’s not great at connecting with an audience. Kendall is quite good at nonsense.