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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It seems obvious that Matsson offered the $$ to f*ck with Kendall and Roman. That’s why he asked Shiv to send him the photo of them. But does that mean Shiv understands that Kendall and Roman are trying to tank the deal? I wasn’t sure what to make of her take on the situation, besides trying to maximize it for herself. [/quote]

My read on Shiv right now is that she is just looking for opportunities to stay relevant and leverage power. She feels shut out with Kendall and Roman as interim CEOs (and IS shut out, that's clear). During this episode, we saw her variously cozying up to the old folks (acting chummy with Frank when the email from Matsson came in, recommending Gerri to Matsson to help with his Ebba issues), getting closer to Matsson, and even maybe protecting/allying with Tom somewhat. We did not see her interacting with or allying with her brothers much, nor did we see her utter a single negative thing about either of them either. She's not scheming against them directly, she's shoring up her support elsewhere and looking for opportunities.

Contrast this with Kendall, who is throwing his weight around at the Waystar offices, getting very aggressive with Matsson, trying to freeze out the old guard, scheming even behind Roman's back (with Hugo, who is now on Matsson's kill list, which is relevant here), trying to torpedo this deal and using Greg and Jess as pawns to do so.

Shiv is quietly making friends, Kendall is loudly making enemies. Roman is acting emotionally, going along with Kendall's schemes, its he go-between with Connor regarding the funeral -- in a very in-between place.

If you did a power ranking of Roy siblings by week, last week it would have gone 1-Kendall, 2-Roman, 3-Shiv, 4-Connor. This week, it's 1-Kendall, 2-Shiv, 3-Roman, 4-Connor. Shiv's on the rise, Roman's on the decline, Kendall's lead is on thin ice and he might not realize how thin.[/quote]

I would already put Shiv about Kendall after her convo with Matsson, and her brothers meeting with him on the mountain top.[/quote]

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Definitely, Shiv is #1 right now.  Matsson trusts her.[/quote]

I feel like Matsson is using Shiv. He may even have made up the story about the 1/2 liters of blood just to make her think she had power. I have a hard time Matsson would confide such a weird story in anybody that easily.

He got information out of Shiv--that he'd seal the deal if he bumped his offer, and who at Waystar could help him spin whatever pr problems his own company is apparently having. But if all he gave Shiv is a fake weird story, then at the end of the day she has nothing. [/quote]

There is speculation on the analysis articles written that he made it up to see how she would deal with something so bizarre and if he could trust her.

He's so weird though, I could see it.  I read they were basing his character on Elon Musk and the guy that started Fortnite.

https://www.vulture.com/article/succession-kill-list-lukas-matsson-swede-analysis.html

It’s fun to play the “Who inspired this character?” game with Lukas. One can detect obvious traces of Elon Musk in his erratic market-moving tweets, not to mention the GoJo chief’s casual, um, “political incorrectness.” Any fictional tech billionaire naturally evokes the usual antecedents: Zuckerberg, Dorsey, the Google boys. Because he’s Scandinavian, there is the temptation to bring up Spotify CEO Daniel Ek, but that wouldn’t really work, because Ek’s public persona is defined by a thoroughly uninteresting opacity more than anything else. The more precise Scandinavian reference point that comes to mind would be Markus Persson, the Minecraft creator also known as “Notch,” who sold his video-game studio Mojang to Microsoft for a cool $2.5 billion in 2014, after which he proceeded to party himself into oblivion, slip into wealth-induced loneliness, and tumble into a perfectly predictable transformation from online troll to QAnon conspiracy promoter.[/quote]

I’ve never heard of Persson, but both Matsson and GoJo seem juuuuust similar enough name-wise that I’d be surprised if he wasn’t part of the mix. [/quote]

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