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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's strange to me how much of the commentary on this show seems to just skip right over the fact that the Roys are obviously a family dealing with tons of abuse, and that informs everything that happens in the finale.

Like I don't know, maybe I'm crazy, but it seemed to me that in choosing to vote for the deal at the end, Shiv was making a mature decision in recognizing that none of them were equipped to run that company and that they needed to move on. I don't see her joining Tom in the car as her claiming some kind of power wrt Waystar, but about her focusing on her family and marriage and seeing if she can make it work. It seems like Roman also realizes that his drive to run the company has basically nothing to do with what he actually wants or what makes sense, but is just about his messed up relationship with his dad. And the way Kendall just kind of devolves further and further as the season goes on, throwing away his kids, his siblings, his own tentative grasp on mental well being, for this pipe dream of succeeding his dad... I see people who appear to be upset or angry that he was denied that dream and I don't understand why, it was an unhealthy obsession.

These kids were abused. Their father was abused. They've never been exposed to a functional marriage or, like, basic emotional maturity or communication skills. Like Jesse Armstrong said -- it's a tragedy. These are tragic figures. It just seems weird to get mired in which one was best suited to become CEO (trick question, they are all ludicrous candidates for that job) or to get angry on any of their behalf at anyone else for thwarting them in that goal. Who cares! None of them should be running a company, they should all go get like 30 years of therapy and stay as far as possible from Waystar.

Just really having a hard time processing the commentary that seems to ignore the fact that the show is centrally about the dysfunction in this particular family and how it has ruined their lives.[/quote]

Several posters have already made these points.  I agree with you (and them).  [/quote]

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