He is a man who nearly died just a couple of days ago, possibly by suicide. When they suggest Kendall might have his own angle, though, that he might have gone around everyone to form some sort of outside deal with Gojo, Kendall just laughs. Wind whips dirt into the air, and Shiv and Roman just want to talk business. The three retreat to an area just beyond the wedding festivities, where the ground is caked in clay. So they approach him at their mother’s wedding to ask him for his help. But to stop the deal their father seems to be striking with tech company Gojo, Roman and Shiv need Kendall on their side. Kendall’s near-death in the pool from the end of the previous episode has been handled mostly poorly by his siblings, who stage reluctant interventions and offer mockery. It lasts nearly nine minutes - an eternity in television, where scenes usually try to stay concise, and even an eternity on Succession, which tends to have longer scenes than most. The core of “All the Bells Say” is a long, long scene featuring just Kendall, Roman, and Shiv. The scene that best explains “All the Bells Say” It just might not be where you’re looking for it. So what’s the path out of this labyrinth? How do you escape a cycle of abuse so large that it seems to have swallowed society? “All the Bells Say” has an answer to that question.
Neither Ken nor Shiv remembers when they abandoned Roman to squirt their father with a water pistol alone, which seems to have had dire consequences: Roman tells Kendall and Shiv about the aftermath of the water pistol incident. Just before the three go in to confront their father, Roman nods to the idea that his father’s physical abuse of him - as seen in the form of a slap in the show’s second season - has a long, long history that his siblings seem to have mostly ignored or blocked out. Kendall, Roman, and Shiv try to present a united front against him, and when he’s unable to peel Roman off from the other two, he erupts almost as badly as he has at any point in the show’s run. He seems to be talking about how selling the company out from under his kids will force them to grapple with “reality,” with the way that nobody is looking out for you, by kicking them out of the nest and making them face some harsh truths.īut the person who isn’t looking out for them is Logan, their own father. Logan says late in the third season finale “All the Bells Say” that he is screwing over his children because he wants to teach them something about how the world works. The world is doomed because it is run by men like Logan, who believe that the only truth is that everybody is out to get you and that paranoia is the only rational response to the world. Yes, you could point to ways the show is about power or wealth or family, but every single one of those themes winds its way, eventually, back to the fact that Logan Roy is an abusive parent to his four children and that Logan himself was abused as a child.
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