Also, were those donuts his doing?!) He tells Greg that things “may be in motion,” asks if he wants to come with him to points unknown, and references the name “Sporus” for the second time this season. (Throughout this season, fans have wondered whether Tom might turn against the family-was he wearing a wire, perhaps?-but instead he directs his intel inwards. While it isn’t as explicitly shown as Roman’s dick pic, it seems apparent that Tom tipped off Logan. But Christmas trees aren’t only ornamental, they’re also highly flammable, and when Tom realizes that Shiv’s sibling mission doesn’t involve much thought as to his future at the company, he is lit up anew. Tom becomes known as the family and company Christmas tree, someone upon which to hang crimes like ornaments. (Or, to be more precise, unscrewed: Watching Tom go from happily opening that biodynamic bottle in Episode 6 to declaring “You kind of have to meet it halfway, right?” to admitting it was “not very nice, is it?” was a heartbreaker, both at the time and even more so in retrospect.) His wife’s idea of pillow talk is to tell him she doesn’t love him her version of starting a family includes hitting pause for, oh, maybe a decade her form of professional mentorship revolves around prison time as a skill set. Like his and Shiv’s marital wine, he is corked. “So you’ve been stewin’ on that?” she says.Īs depicted through Matthew Macfadyen’s once-optimistic, now-glum performance, Tom has been marinating so long in that hurt that he’s beginning to pickle. In that season’s finale, during a miserable cove-hop in which Shiv vacillates on whether she, like, loves her husband, Tom wonders aloud whether “the sad I’d be without you would be less than the sad I get from being with you.” During that same conversation, when he brings up Shiv’s proposed wedding-night arrangement as being something that nags at him, she scoffs. In Season 2, she makes fun of Tom so hard during a dinner party that he finally snaps and speaks the Roy family language, telling her to fuck off. She tells him on their wedding night, in the Season 1 finale, that she wants to experiment with an open relationship. It isn’t just his wife’s family members who demean him to his face and behind his back, it’s the hot tamale herself. Like so many bullies, Tom’s treatment of those he perceives to be beneath him is reflective of the way he feels treated by others he is a grownup who struggles to move past the I endured it, so you must too frat-hazy mindset. Over three seasons, Tom has been a subject of ridicule and an object of pity-in turn inflicting the same damage onto Greg. It is Tom, lowering himself to ascension, and it is about time. “Who told him we were coming?” Shiv seethes, and moments later the apparent answer gets a shoulder-squeeze from Logan, walks through the door, and innocently asks a stricken Shiv how she’s feeling. Instead, they learn that Logan is already in the midst of revising a divorce agreement with their withholding mother that would obviate their power altogether. After learning that their father intends to sell Waystar Royco-and, crucially, the family’s control of the conglomerate-three-quarters of Logan’s children band together and rush to blindside him with their intention to block the supermajority required for the deal. In Succession’s Season 3 finale, that streak seemingly continues, and it is heavily implied that Tom is the reason. Three episodes ago /Jjcq0xz1Gq- Frazier Tharpe II December 13, 2021 Rung by rung, he has seen firsthand that the scenery doesn’t change much: unless you’re at the tippy-top, there’s always gonna be a bunch of assholes overhead. A few episodes earlier, Logan Roy had told his only daughter, Siobhan, that he saw right through her chosen relationship: “You’re marrying a man fathoms beneath you,” Logan yelled to Shiv at the time, “because you don’t want to risk being betrayed.” Still, Tom has kept climbing, albeit shamelessly and on shaky ladders. Tom didn’t seem to dwell on the chasm between status, but he surely had given thought to it. His parents wouldn’t shut up about having chipped in for the wine his powerful new father-in-law almost didn’t even arrive. Two season finales ago, during his own wedding, Succession made it clear that Tom sprung from a different realm altogether than the one he was marrying into, that he was just a middling Midwestern boy as seen from the penthouse heights of Manhattan. “You could be heading away from the endless middle,” he tells his cousin-in-law, Greg Hirsch, seeking his loyalty in an uncertain time, “and towards the bottom of the top.” If there’s anyone familiar with that trajectory, it’s Tom. In the midst of an expensive, empty-hearted Tuscan wedding during Sunday night’s Season 3 finale of Succession, Tom Wambsgans makes a rich proposition to the only person whom he believes is truly there for him, for better and for worse.
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