'Succession,' Season 4, Episode 5, 'Kill List'
The gist of it
In this episode, Team Waystar heads for Norway to meet with Matsson and knock out the details of the GoJo deal. Kendall and Roman try to play hardball, but Matsson prefers what he's hearing from Shiv. And in the end, he offers so much money for the company that it doesn't look like anybody is going to have a choice other than to let it go through.
Let's go to Norway
The first time we ever saw Kendall, he was in the back of a car on the way to Waystar, rapping along with music that only he could hear. Now, with half a season to go in his hell-ness journey, he's in the back of the car again, and he's on the way to the office again, but he's not rapping. He's being serious. It's his first day as co-CEO.
As soon as he hits the executive floor, though, Kendall winds up in a discussion about the unfolding disaster that is the Waystar-produced movie . The way Roman and Kendall coldly discuss what kinds of overages to approve will make a creative person's blood run cold. The next wrinkle in the day is that Matsson wants the whole team in Norway, where GoJo's retreat is still underway, to try to get the deal done. Only Tom feels relaxed, because as he tells Greg, with ATN being spun off, he doesn't have to worry so much about Matsson. His issue will be
