They made it pretty clear from the very first episode this season that Kendall’s battle was going to be insanely uphill— and that he’d have to stop tripping over his own dick. And he’s incapable of that. It gave Kendall a tremendous arc to play, but it was unlikely to bring down his dad’s company unless he could recruit his siblings to join.

And the DOJ thing still netted two huuuuuuge fallout points: 1. The President’s out, so next season, they’ll clearly have to deal with a loose cannon. 2. It reportedly hurt RoyCo’s value enough that Logan had to seriously consider that pivot from buying to selling.

As I said somewhere above (and as Tom said explicitly), guys like Logan don’t go down until they’re dead. And there are so many interesting places they can go from here. If the deal goes through, what do the kids do? Is Tom actually helped by Logan, a guy he clearly shouldn’t trust? Like others here, I’m skeptical Logan is cool with just cashing out and abdicating, so he’s got to have other moves up his sleeve. If the deal doesn’t go through, Logan’s just galvanized his kids against him. How does that play out? What does Shiv do with Tom? How does the new presidency affect them? What the fuck does Kendall do, and do his siblings ever use the “I killed a kid” against him?

I don’t need a “resolution”— it’d feel too tidy, too outside of real life. I expect Logan to remain obscenely powerful and borderline untouchable until he dies, as all these media patriarchs do. I expect the kids to continue to try to jockey for position. I expect Tom and Greg to keep scraping up the ladder as they do. As long as the dialogue is this sharp and the turns are this brilliantly structured, I don’t really care what they do. I’ll be there.