Atlantic writer and essayist extraordinaire Caitlin Flanagan joins Smoke ‘Em to discuss:
* Who saw the ending coming?
* The “failson” that was Kendall, and why does Sarah want to fix him?
* The louche character of Roman, nihilist
* Shiv meets the fate of her mother, her worst fear
* Why the Greg theory of victory was never gonna wash
* A father’s love: The real narrative drive of the show
* “It takes three generations of American life to make a Shakespeare scholar”
* Freud’s repetition compulsion
* The funeral episode and the speech that was Nietzsche meets The Fountainhead
* Shiv and Tom: “A change has come / she’s under my thumb”
* That nasty Jeremy Strong profile in the New Yorker
* Why “privilege” is a shallow metric to talk about a human life
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