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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