In which we learn that even the Roys are powerless to the temptation of a karaoke session
is divided between business deals and the personal lives of the Roys; a parallel that often works so well, you can’t tell where business ends and the personal starts. The second episode of the final season, “Rehearsal”, centres around Gojo’s acquisition of Waystar Royco, a deal that has been humming along since Season 3, but is now mere hours from going through. Logan is in a good mood, and his childrenbe: they will be getting their money, and they need that after last week’s PGM bid.
Tom’s bad day plummets, when he learns that Logan has made a trip to the ATN newsroom, circling the newly-outfitted offices like a shark . Logan has some thoughts about new fonts , election countdowns and how many emails his reporters are sending . Logan gives a “little speech” to the newsroom about how much he loves journalism, and tearing down their “lily-livered” competition. He’s going to spend a lot more time in the news room.
Meanwhile Kerry is attempting to upgrade her status from assistant to news reader, and has filmed sample clips, which are making their way around Waystar Royco . Tom palms off the duty of telling Kerry that her presenting skills, well, suck to Greg. That meeting goes about as well as you might think: Kerry’s no-nonsense attitude cuts through Greg’s bumbling schtick with ease.Back to the kids, who are bickering about what type of news organisation they want to build.
Connor’s solution to this unhappiness is for everyone to do karaoke at a bar , choosing Leonard Cohen’s “Famous Blue Raincoat”, a song about betrayal, sadness, entirely in keeping with this bar’s grimly neon setting. Logan’s reveal, that he wants to discuss his feelings, elicits the exact reactions you would expect from his children: mainly shock, then derision, and later anger. All the kids protest, though it’s an argument that we’ve seen a thousand times before.
These two opening episodes have not been the show’s finest – along with an early stretch of Season 3, I’d say they are among the worst – but this closing scene has a forward-facing energy that accompanies a final season. What comes next is anyone’s guess, though it’s increasingly hard to see these kids, posing as grown-ups, ever really coming out on top.
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