10 hours ago, John M said:
Would he though? Again, I think that is the point.
Whether or not Kendall would let his kid eat some poison seems pretty dependent on whether Kendall would ever be poisoning his dad's food, and the answer to that is clearly no. I didn't see any tension in that scene about whether or not there was any real poison in the food.
1 hour ago, rhygirl720 said:
Ken, it just hit me this episode, but I think he suffers from a mood disorder, bi-polar, and has been self-medicating his whole life. My take is he passed out and will not die but might be spending time in a Swiss clinic getting healthy. His behavior never made sense to me until I viewed through that lens. If he does get healthy, he will be a match for Logan I believe.
I know it wasn't meant this way and maybe it's wrong to say it, but it just feels like an excuse for Kendall's behavior to be any actual disorder. It feels like he's carefully written to be who he is because of his personality plus his upbringing. He clearly has cycled through manic/depressive phases, but it seems like that's the emotions and the drugs doing that instead of the other way around. Nobody seems to reference Kendall being erratic this way in the past--he wasn't even in the first season.
1 hour ago, SG429 said:
It is entirely possible that no one on set was actually looking at any dick pic at all. The actual image may easily be added post-production. Acting!
Good point! Yes, of course they wouldn't have to look at it. Though my point still stands that KK insisting that it be his dick used onscreen would get a hard no on the same grounds. None of your co-workers need to see your dick if they watch the ep themselves.
2 hours ago, dmc said:
“Kendall floats away: The big question of course is… did Ken die? Was he testing out his father’s theory of how long it took “the boy” to drown? One thing I know is that HBO is not sending screeners for the finale so anything we read is just speculation. As Lainey said to me last night, if anyone can do it (kill off a lead character), it’s showrunner Jesse Armstrong. Kendall has backed himself into a corner and there are only so many times he can betray his father and go back. If he is out of the company, he is out of the family (he would be even less valuable to them than Connor, who is powerless but also mildly liked). This ending makes sense for Kendall as it’s what they’ve been building towards all series. The New Yorker profile with Jeremy Strong, which dropped on Sunday, also makes a lot of sense in context. J. Cameron Smith said that the finale was devastating.”
I don't know, I'm open to whatever JA thinks is right, but it seems really tricky to pull off tonally. It's a show about bunch of rich people who are practically sociopathic in their selfishness and struggle to show feeling for anyone but their domineering father, who's even crueler than they are. And it's a comedy.
So what happens if the ineffectual son ineffectuals himself to death? Are they experiencing an actual consequence from that? Do they suddenly discover real human connections?
I guess, to me it seems like yes, the season has obviously been written in a way that would obviously lead to Kendall's suicide, only it's happening in a show where none of the characters have the emotional notes to react to suicide in a very meaningful way. Meanwhile, we lose a main character out of the mix, giving them less to maneuver with. I don't think the audience's reaction would be that different either. "Wow, they killed a main character" is different from "OMG, Ned!"
Kendall being written into a corner really means very little on a show where all the characters live in corners, like characters in a video game whose players can't really work the controller. Roman and Shiv currently think they're going someplace now, but so did Kendall in S1.
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