Every week, “Le Monde” takes stock of the tribulations of the Roy family and his media empire, to follow every Monday on OCS.
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While a cloud of FBI agents falls on Waystar Royco’s New York Headquarters under the fury branch of the Patriarch Logan Roy, Kendall Roy, the fallen heir is curdded in a closet. Some encolts, in the studios of a competing television channel. These are the last minutes of the third episode of a third season that looks more and more like a descent into hell for the Roy family. Entitled The Disruption in Original Version, Back of Stick in French Version, this little hour of chaos is at the narrative arc of succession what the big descent, the one that brings the heart to the lips, is at a Russian mountain route. If we still wondered about the bestiality that Logan Roy claimed as a strategy at the end of the first episode (“We’ll Go Fucking Beast”) will now be distorted by the contours.
Pregest, Kendall (Jeremy Strong) still believes in good fortune. In a chic restaurant, he gives an interview to a journalist who does not hide his disbelief against the arrogant naivety of his interlocutor. Just published the interview, a quote serves as fuel at the inextinguishable irony of Roman Roy (Kieran Culkin) the little brother who chose to stay true to Logan Roy: “Do you feel good in your mental space?” (” How’s your headspace? “), he asks his father and his sister Siobhan – Shiv for the intimate (Sarah Snook) – Mocking the Verbiage New Age of his eldest.
But the time is no longer to badin. The failure of the negotiations between the Roy Group’s heirs has created a gap that continues to expand. A gala evening dedicated to freedom of the press is the occasion of a first pass of arms between Kendall and Siobhan, of which we know how little they do, one and the other, of the Independence of writing of their empire. Meanwhile, Logan requires testimonials of loyalty, that it troubles. When he asks those of his offspring remained (at least at least) faithful, to give interviews testifying to their subsidiary piety, Connor (Alan Ruck), the older-half-brother scrolls, like Siobhan. It is finally novel who will submit to this test which he can only pull out by the lie – by inventing a portion of the throwing fishing in the Rockies. It will not be the height of abjection.
Kendall decides to burst to Waystar headquarters, of which he is always, in theory, shareholder and employee. He does it at the very moment when Shiv must answer the questions of the group employees (carefully sorted questions), by installing the baffles that screamed me of Nirvana, drowning the lifting speech of his sister. To take revenge on this humiliation, she seeks her brothers, asking them to sign an open letter in which she recalls all the vilenies committed by Kendall, her conjugal infidelity, her addictions, her betrayals. Connor and Romanesque scroll, without even trying to see their refusal of fraternal affection: the first would like to obtain in exchange for his signature a support of the writing of Waystar to his presidential candidacy, the second ends by invoking “his personal interests”.
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