He and his fellow elite have all the luxury and privilege they could want, and it isn’t what they need. Amid the beautiful scenery, Kendall has never been so unhappy. Wealth is simply a weapon to be wielded, a bolster to an overweening sense of superiority that doesn’t match their all too human insecurities. The episode ends with Carrie deciding to return to her old rent-controlled brownstone apartment instead of the suite she shared with Big, with the closing lines: ‘And just like that… Espinosa said that she recalled that Maxwell dated computer millionaire Ted Waitt some time in the 2000s and was still with him when she applied for a job with Waitt some time before 2010 – she didn’t get it. Meanwhile, off screen, the timing curiously lines up with a gloriously scathing New Yorker profile of Strong, in which creator Jesse Armstrong and Strong’s his fellow actors… read more
