Shiv’s kids get to be the next Roy trio. And she gets to live with her brothers loathing her while enjoying their freedom and she’s shackled to Tom and she really is her mother now huh I’m telling you those cycles are too powerful
unfortunately we’re going to have to see that Tom’s contact name is “tommy” or something personal and cute like that in Greg’s phone to contrast Shiv having her own fucking husband in her phone as Tom Wambsgans
I haven't seen anyone else point this out yet, but like. Shiv divorcing Tom was a business decision. Shiv told Nan Pierce she was getting a divorce before she told her husband. There was no way out of that final conversation without Shiv landing on the d word, because she'd already committed to leaving him as part of the negotiations for Pierce.
And this isn't a Shiv bashing post! I don't mean to imply that she was only focused on the business of it or that this makes her cold and terrible, but you cannot deny how much that was a factor. Shiv's whole thing is that she feels like she cannot ever let her emotions get between her and the Business, especially not emotions about her husband. The second she lets the wall crack and some feelings seep through, she's just an emotional little girl again. She cannot show emotion around other people.
Shiv walks away and hides her face from the others when she realizes Tom's betrayal in 3x9. She wants to keep going with the business meeting when she's obviously upset about Tom's call at the beginning of 4x1. She turns away from him to cry as they discuss divorce. And when Nan Pierce raises the subject of her marriage during a business meeting, Shiv handwaves and says she's divorcing him like it's nothing.
She's upset with him and the divorce will help her win Pierce, so of course she jumps on the option. Business comes before emotion, and she copes by making herself feel like she cares less than she does and can brush him away.
And then the Pierce deal goes through, and now she is committed to leaving him. She's clearly not fully over him, and I genuinely don't know whether they might have held on for a little longer if not for Pierce. There's a chance she might have been more willing to fight and talk things out if she hadn't already announced to her brothers and business partner that she was leaving him. But she also might not have been.
Either way though, Shiv walked into that apartment knowing that she wasn't allowed to let herself want to stay married, because for better or worse, she'd already had to choose for the sake of the deal.
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Can't stop thinking about how Shiv was keeping her pregnancy a secret because she was afraid there was something wrong with her baby. she went through all those tests and the anxiety of a possible miscarriage all by herself and now she finds out she's got the all clear and her baby is going to be fine people she told are immediately acting like it's an inconvenience or disadvantage for her position... So sickening