Yesterday we were able to enjoy a new episode of succession and although the vast majority of us should be talking about the scene with capital letters that Kieran Culkin (our beloved Roman) marks on the mountain -seriously, how wonderful-, many of us now have our attention elsewhere. Specifically in a somewhat comical situation that is discussed at a certain point in the chapter and that would be a nod to a urban legend that circles over the actor Leonardo Dicaprio. Yes, you read that right, DiCaprio.
spoiler warning: From here, we openly talk about what happens in the fifth chapter of season 4 of the series. Read it at your own risk.
The black list, an intense episode that removes everything (again)
Episode 5 of season 4 of succession It has been as intense as the trip itself that our protagonists take to the mountains of Norway, where the team of GOJO He is on annual retirement. The trip, organized by force by Mattson, turns out to be the moment in which Kendall Roy, as temporary president of the company, and Roman, as his deputy, will have to close the negotiation that his father initiated for the sale of Waystar-Royco.
Obviously, things will start to go wrong shortly after arriving, and that is that Mattson proposes to also take the ATN purchase, the news platform that Logan Roy planned to focus all his efforts on after the deal. Roman is not amused by this -for a matter of loyalty to his father’s name- while Shiv thinks it’s a perfect idea to get rid of something else and in the process get more money.
In this swing of decisions we have Kendall, here in the power bug, which is what he has always longed for, each time he eats more inside, to such an extent that, after convincing Roman, he decides to blow everything up. Obviously he cannot make such a decision openly, so he agrees with his brother to try to sabotage Mattson’s intentions so that he is the one who gets tired and loses interest.
The owner of GOJO, who in addition to being eccentric is quite cunning, realizes this and ends up having a confrontation with the brothers on top of a mountain, where we can enjoy the replica of a Roman who continues to be touched and sunk by the death of his father.
Everything seems to have gone to hell (thus the Roy brothers winning), however, on the plane back, Mattson makes a call that changes everything: offers even more money than before, to keep everything (including ATN) and he does it openly so that part of the board has the record and Kendall and Roman cannot refuse. The last scene gives us the final moment: a telephone conversation between Mattson and Shiv that shows that she has been the architect of all this, who has convinced the Norwegian to pay more and incidentally has protected his favorites so that they are not fired after the merger. The always underrated girl Roy wins the game.
The anecdote of mattson’s headphones
Between so much negotiation there is also time for personal conversations, being precisely the one that Shiv maintains with Mattson the one that helps to close the negotiation. Others are much more banal, like the one Greg has with Tom during lunch, in which the former informs the latter that he has heard that Mattsonwhen you keep intimate relationsputs some noise canceling headphones and listen to podcasts.
The joke is absurd to say the least and possibly would not have gone any further, however, in the forums Reddit they put their hands to their heads when they heard it. Because? Well, because it is the same behavior as supposedly (it is said, it is told, it is rumored) has Leonardo Dicaprio with their partners.
Obviously it is a urban reading, unprovable, which has been circulating on the internet for years, after the friend of an ex-partner of the actor gave an interview to a medium pointing out that his “best friend” had told him the same thing -at that time he stressed the detail of the “noise cancellation” which makes everything even more hilarious. It turns out that this rumor had already moved through the networks years before and usually resurfaces from time to time in American popular culture, in the same way as our story of the nutella and the program!Surprise, surprise! in Spain.
the people of Esquire, source of our news, does not believe that the writers have spun so finely, more than anything because succession He does not usually make this type of references or popular winks. People in the forums do not think alike and are convinced that this conversation of Well Greg with Tom I was looking precisely to revive this nice anecdote.
And you, what do you think of this whole story?
