He’s pissed. Succession 2x05 "Tern Haven" - Episode Discussion. Succession Season 2 Episode 5, “Tern Haven,” succeeds through taking gestating pieces and hatching a victory mired in personal damage. But maybe feeling so out of step with Logan has contributed to make her blunder and she…just keeps talking. He gets an email that displeases him and, with what has to be my favorite line of the whole season, screams at the pilot DRIVE YOUR F-CKING WHIRLYBIRD. But she knows that Tom is right when he calls it a “sh-t pinata,” and we know he’s right when he calls it the “most Roy thing ever.” She’s a wreck, looking for booze in the room (despite, as Tom also points out, it having nothing but low thread count sheets and Emily Dickenson) and admits she’s messed up. She invites him in, they have a drink, and then get right back to where that phone call left out. This feels so out of character! But let’s rewind for a second: Tern Haven is the name of the Pierce estate, the setting for most of this week’s episode, and, though it’s no Austerlitz, it certainly helps distinguish the PGM overlords from the Roys. Logan says he can go to 25—everyone likes that. Logan lets Tom know that he’ll be there mostly to take the abuse from the Pierces, since they loathe ATN and all that it stands for.
Imagine a world where she can take the money and be free.The truly fantastic Cherry Jones plays Nan Pierce (of course her name is Nan!) “But I don’t like to deal in hypotheticals.”When they return to the table, Tabitha is regaling the room about how she and Roman don’t have sex, which definitely seems like it should be on the list of etiquette dinner table don’ts. Tom gives her a good pep talk because honestly, for all his buffoonery, Tom seems to actually love Shiv.Gerri has prepared a list of dos and don’ts for the weekend: no talking of Ravenhead, ATN, Israel, Brightstar and cruises rumors, and instead they should steer talk towards cultural interests.
Where the Roys are all glass, steel, and swears, the Pierces are wood, candlelight, and classic literature. Meanwhile, Nan asks Marcia what it was like to grow up in Beirut, and we get a glimpse into just how angry Marcia is with Logan.
It’s a brilliant knocking over of a house of cards that leaves the hostile takeover less of an issue, but leaves so many more issues with where personal relationships go from here. He also implores his elder son to, “keep clean.” Sure. With an even more devastating, “shall we?” he leaves the room.But he gets a call from Rhea and seems triumphant. explains why they get along so well“Jeepers-fucking-creepers, what a shit piñata.”But I’m a Tom fanboy, so I guess I’m biasedI love the fact that the Roy siblings can't resist knocking each other down that they were fucking up the deal by making themselves look like idiots."What a weird family."Glad someone else loved this line.
Logan walks. 2 Wins. Logan makes a toast: “Like Romans amongst you Greeks I’m sure you find us big, vulgar and boisterous.” Uh, yup, thanks for recapping this scene for me, Logan.Logan gathers his brood into a small room. Oh what a great idea when you are out of your mind! That is some tough houseguest behavior—there is certainly not an Emily Post section on that.We open with Shiv, tightly wound, heading up to Logan’s palatial apartment. She then asks the million (or $24 billion) dollar question: Who will be Logan’s successor? Logan makes a face at Frank. Marcia has been left out of the inner circle all season and it looks like, in this moment, it’s finally getting to her.The meeting of the Pierces and the Roys is also pretty striking as a visual representation of new vs. old money. I feel like Kendall could have simply continued with the takeover bid after tricking Logan into thinking he’d submitted.Lol that's the most on brand thing I've seen at the Emmys in a while, Kendall vs Logan and everyone's nominated besides Connor New to the thread so I’m sorry if this has already been hashed out. He and Nan lock steely gazes and he says, slowly, deliberately, that IF he announces Shiv it will be on his own dang timeline.