2023-05-15 20:03:52
The eighth episode of the fourth season of “Succession” has become one of the most impressive. And it is that in the development of the story, the scriptwriters focus on how businessmen manage the political interests of a country. In this case, the Roy brothers play all their cards during the night of the presidential elections in the United States so that the candidate who benefits them the most is the winner in the voting.
But beyond the main story of the episode titled “America Decide”, this chapter has generated many comments among Peruvian fans of fiction, as the country is mentioned.
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In this chapter, the candidates disputing the votes are of marked political positions. Jeryd Mencken (Justin Kirk) is the Republican candidate who represents the extreme right. His opponent is Daniel Jimenez, a Democratic representative played by Elliot Villar.
At ATN, led by Tom, the Roy brothers are clear regarding their positions. Roman supports Mencken and Shiv supports Jimenez. In the middle is Kendall. Although the Roys are confident that giving Mencken victory would give them direct access to the White House.
The mention of Peru
One of the Roys also has direct participation in the elections. In this case, Connan Roy, the son of Logan and half brother of Kendall, Shiv and Roman. He is running in the presidential elections, but he is not popular and even ATN does not cover his candidacy.
It is when he realizes that he is not going to get votes in any state, that Connan calls his brother Roman to see if he can intercede for him with the candidate Jeryd Mencken and get him, for example, an embassy.
Roman tells him that that offer has expired and Connan insists on possible functions that he might perform as a “political operator”. There comes the mention of Peru.
“I spent like 100 million here, can’t I just have a little bit?” Connan says of his investment in the campaign. “Couldn’t you organize a coup in Peru, send me on a trip to Tajikistan, be one of the bad boys in Uruguay?” asks the aspiring president.
Roman tries to show his half brother that he no longer has any value to Jeryd, since by the time he has made the call he is already the clear favorite. “What does he earn?” he asks him. “Having one of the best political operators of his generation organizing his mess,” says Connan. Thus ends the scene.
In the development of the chapter, we will see Connan receiving the support of Willa Ferreyra, his wife, and his team, who, despite his low popularity, motivate him by telling him that if something is going to happen with his candidacy, it will be in Kentucky. When it is announced that they have lost in this State, Connan arrives at ATN to ask to make a statement that finally does go on the air, but in an embarrassing way, thus closing his depressed electoral participation.
It is worth mentioning that for this episode Jesse Armstrong, creator of the program, had political specialists to make the scenarios and dialogues more real.
“We had two brilliant political consultants for this episode,” Armstrong explained on the official podcast for the HBO Max series. “We wanted to find scenarios where it wasn’t clear what to do. Very dark things have happened in American politics in recent years, but, for example, in a constitutional sense there should be no question of what the outcome should have been following the January 6 storming of the Capitol. Here we wanted to present a situation that was more confusing”, declared the creative in relation to the scene of this episode in which, for example, there is talk of falsifying the results following the burning of 100,000 votes in Wisconsin.
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