Welcome to the recapables for Succession. Episode 9 prenuptial. I am joined by my Waystar Royco cohorts. Jason Concepcion?

Co-hosting a podcast? That's nothing. Katie Baker. This podcast is not very wedding-e.

I know.

I don't know how wedding-y this pod's going to be.

I'm Chris Ryan.

We're going to talk about the ninth episode of the first season of Succession.

Prenuptial, it was written by showrunner Jesse Armstrong and directed by Mark Milott.

And it takes place in England before Tom and Shiv's wedding the night before

with the crowd mostly made up of rock gods and economists, the fly guys,

and of course, the extended Roy family, including cousin Greg.

Kendall and Stewie are plotting a hostile takeover of Waystar Royco, backed by Sandy Furness,

which would install Kendall as CEO.

But there are some complications, namely Kendall's reputation as something of a calomari cock ring.

Kendall doesn't do much to fight that rep over the course of the next 15 hours, getting coked up,

leaking to Frank about the move and having awkward confrontations with Rava who has to dust coke off his

lapel as well as Jerry who he just like hostily barges into.

Roman isn't feeling so hostile.

He just wants his dad's approval on the satellite launch.

In what seems like a troll move, possibly Roman brings Tabitha, played by Caitlin Fitzgerald, as a date, who you may remember, not just

from Masters of Sex, but from mastering sex in the previous episode, Prague, where she had a

bodily fluid exchange program with Tom, the groom.

What's the name of that thing?

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