The consultant guy is actually their main competitor. If Logan is Murdoch, then “Lifeboats” Furness is a Moonves or Diller. And the guy he’s talking to on the bench is Kendall’s buddy/investment banker who just bought a $4 billion stake in Roystar, along with a board seat…
Greg recognized the investment banker because he say him and Kendall in the coffee shop, but I doubt he has any idea who Lifeboats is.
Oh, I gathered the union message from the lyrics. But I don’t see how those lyrics can be construed to apply to the situation in the episode, so I just assumed that the refrain was why they chose it.
Huh. Thanks for the link about the ortolan, I learned something.
I’ll say this for the show’s writers, they are certainly not afraid to take a pass on the expected ending. It was almost like a final episode. Like you I’m curious about how they keep it going with so many characters fired.
Yeah, Kendall seemed to have a wake-up call in regards to the dog story.
Also, some of the dialogue sounded like Ianucci, so I finally looked up Jesse Armstrong. Nice American-sounding name, right? Nope. English. And he wrote 15 episodes of The Thick of It(!!!),along with a ton of episodes of Peep Show and other top-notch British comedies.
Yeah, instead of the penultimate episode 9 being the big throw down (as is wont with most HBO shows), the fireworks will go off in the season finale.
So, Kendall once again can’t shut up. Normally I say he’s totally helpless unless he’s on drugs (when he showed up at the ranch high he was more confrontational and assertive than we’ve ever seen him), but he’s once again on the wagon and totally insecure and wishy-washy.