For once, the Roy siblings aren’t stepping on each other’s backs in the mad scramble to the top of their father’s business but are finally accessing the atrophied parts of their souls where they felt genuine brotherly and sisterly love. Kendall slipped into the pool, which may or may not have been a conscious suicide attempt but was certainly an indicator of his deteriorated mental state. The ambiguous ending to last week’s episode was indeed something to be concerned about, and not just the artful homage to the drowned waiter. “All the Bells Say” includes a crushing mirror image of that moment, with the same three again in Europe for a wedding and, for the first time, seeing each other as human again. He knows this may be the last time they’ll ever get the chance because he’s cut a deal with Sandy and Stewy for the “bear hug” that will wrest control of Waystar from the family - and on the day of Shiv’s wedding, no less. Then Ken asks them to come together for a hug. They muse about old times when perhaps they weren’t hurting each other at their father’s behest. (No one remembered to ask Connor, of course.) They smoke pot. There’s a scene late in the first season of Succession where Kendall, Roman, and Shiv get together in the boathouse on the evening before Shiv’s wedding.
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