A fun game to play on Monday mornings, trying to guess which moment from the Sunday evening episode. Subrogation she is the one who will make the most breasts out of her. It’s a tough race any week, but the Sunday night episode provided just as fierce a race as competing to be the interim CEO of Waystar Royco following the death of Logan Roy.
If you were watching Season 4 Episode 5 SubrogationTitled “Kill List,” if you were at my house with me, you’d be treated to an added soundtrack to the night’s drama: a series of “ahs!” “eek!” “My god!” and the evergreen, “What are you doing Shiv?!”
In the episode, the Roy brothers and the gang of thirsty board members are brutally forced to fly to Norway, while Logan is still in a coffin to discuss the acquisition with Scandinavian GoJo CEO Lukas Matsson. The majority of Waystar. An act of extreme power that forces the team to cross the ocean while still grieving. The result was that everyone’s mood was a little crazy and frantic, especially when talk about a “kill list” – people to be fired after the sale – started to circulate.
Because of this, there were a lot of standout, memorable moments.
Tom had an impudent attempt to blend in with the Swedes, causing them to be interrupted horribly. smug speech—“Will France succeed? Or will they shoot a Greece?
After seeing Kendall write number “144” claims to a piece of paper on a billboard that I wondered if, as a negotiation tactic, I was better equipped than I thought to broker nine-figure company takeovers.
Karolina talks to GoJo’s director of communications and says:you look refreshed” is one of the most brutal and also insane bits of behavior I’ve ever seen from one of the more quietly entertaining characters on the show.
When Lukas took off his woolen sweater to start negotiations, Skars-ab tipI’m out of breath. When Frank and Carl sat outside the sauna In their robes, I laughed, thinking everyone was overwhelmed inside. And Cousin Greg himself and the Roy kids”Quad SquadI nodded in secondhand embarrassment. The cycle of emotions I went through during the coke and whiskey talk about how Shiv and Lukas would break his bad habit of sending frozen blood bricks to his subordinate (?!) was now indescribably complex. (Shiv, you’re pregnant!)
But there is one moment from “The Kill List” that neither I nor any of us will forget. I’m talking, of course, about mussel-fleshed earlobes.
Former married couple Shiv and Tom are in Norway in a weirder place than ever before. As they mourn Logan’s death and figure out how to get a divorce, they are now in a state of tortured uncertainty as they alternately hate and desperately need each other.
Shiv gets into a fight with Tom, who is or is probably still drunk from the night before. In retaliation, and possibly out of jealousy, Tom confronts him about his date with Lukas the night before. “Your earlobes are thick and chewy like clam meat,” she told him.
what in the world???
It means insult. It was supposed to be some kind of erotica. Their interactions are so heated, I think you can cut through the sexual tension like it’s clam meat. Telling Tom that Lukas is boring, but “traditionally attractive” and “wide”, gives him a thorn in the side, as opposed to “wikily thin as a goddamn caver”.
As Emma Fraser wrote in an article for The Daily Beast’s Obsessed, there is something clearly sadistic and twisted in Tom and Shiv’s relationship, especially at this point in the series. But there’s also something somehow relatable about it. Would I compare my partner’s earlobes to a bulbous arthropod? No, not as a passionate insult, and certainly not as a weird fetish provocation. But the mess of whirlpools of charm, brutality, interdependence, and resentment is a complex cocktail that I think many people know well.
In any case, Subrogation Fans on Twitter have lit up with the stunned excitement you’d expect from a post on mussel-fleshed earlobes.
The effect of all this was that I googled pictures of the mussel meat to see what it looked like. (I don’t recommend doing this.) More importantly, it makes me wonder what awaits this couple.
The most realistic thing about this relationship, for all the weird dialogue and weird dynamics, is how incomprehensible it is. Too often on television, a couple is clearly doomed or clearly destined to die. This? There are no clues. But I’m excited to channel the subtle caver in me and go through the last few chapters to find out.
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