That was such a smart, human moment. Sure Shiv can play it cool and cold with the best of them, but she'd spent weeks being promised the job, being told how much the Pierces liked her, being conflicted over leading a company she fundamentally disagrees with and worried that Logan was secretly just playing her against Kendall or some other invisible man.


So she sees the dinner as a moment of relative candor, feels like the deal is going south specifically because Logan won't announce an heir, thinks she can help by letting Nan know there very much is a plan (and she's right, to be fair) and just blurts it out in a desperate bid to make her dream a reality and throw all that weight off her shoulders.


The rough part is that everybody in the room was shocked, but only Roman and Logan seemed against it in any way, and both for vague or nepotistic reasons. So for the consequences of her power play to be so potentially dire for her (and to see how shook she was afterward) is why this show is doing huge, huge work right now.


I really think the world ought to wake up to the fact they're out there looking for the next Game of Thrones and, sure, nobody's probably getting beheaded on this show, but from the score (seriously, that music) to the stakes, there's no show walking such a fine line between absurd comedy and defeating drama. Everybody should be up on this!


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