Of course Succession’s most honest moment comes wrapped inside a conditional.
For Shiv, the conditional is often transactional, a mode of speech she uses with her brothers, with her father, with Matsson . But for Shiv, the conditional is usually more than linguistic. Just before the money speech, Shiv tells Tom that she and Matsson “have a connection,” and Tom accuses her of “keeping her options open.” It’s true, and it’s also how Shiv, consciously or not, is treating her own pregnancy.
What would have otherwise been playing, an imaginary form of interaction between them, instead becomes a declaration of truth folded inside the comfortable, not-quite-real space of “if.” This conditionality is a lingua franca between them. It’s what allows Tom to sayto Shiv because it’s the only way he knows how to communicate with her safely. “If” does not negate any of the shivering, illicit clarity of Tom’s honesty in that moment.
What’s even more powerful, though, is that Tom’s flipped the script. The idea he’s couching inside this safe conditional does eventually offer an imagined alternative for them, but it’s also Tom being honest. He’s revealing himself, and this thing he’s terrified of, but when the temporary, tenuous space of that “if” closes at the end of the speech, Tom and Shiv get to twist away from it. Away from the version of their lives where they live in a trailer park and dress up for three-star Italian.
It’s why the mood between Tom and Shiv seems to shift so suddenly. He starts the next scene with his feet on her desk, confident and gleeful, not revealing that he’s listening in on her call with Matsson. They know how to be playmates again. The problem with building your entire relationship on conditionals, though, is that it’s also tenuous —
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