
Lisa (Sanaa Lathan) and Kendall (Jeremy Strong) find themselves at odds, and you can tell from Lisa's face that she's about done.

Roman and Logan are both going to pick this guy to spite Shiv? I get that the message is supposed to be that the Roys all treat this like a game, but.

Just selfishly, what does this offer to Roman? One bathroom conversation, and Roman is excited to hype up a guy who refuses to condemn Hitler? Is it that. I'm not sure they've really laid the groundwork for Roman to be into Mencken, to be honest. Between this and the earlier plotline involving the unhoused man who was mistreated during Kendall's bachelor party, it's been a year of reminders that if you hate what the Roy family stands for, Roman is as much a part of it as anyone, even though he's the funny one, the silly one, the one whose relationship with Gerri a lot of people have found genuinely endearing.Įven so. It's interesting that they chose to have Roman be the one who wants to bet on Jeryd Mencken (Justin Kirk). Together in their music and shared vulnerability, the SWIDT five ‘love each other like brothers’ with the reassuring knowledge that ‘Onehunga is the best place in the world’.Movie Reviews New York Times doc on Janet Jackson's Super Bowl scandal leaves questions unanswered 90 MPH: Roman Rapper JessB says that being ‘so relatable’ means SWIDT’s music brings people together authentically and collectively. And I feel there’s a lot of power in vulnerability,” INF explains. “We do social commentary, we speak on experiences, what we’ve seen - a lot of people can relate to that. Across the road from her house there used to be a massive-as cornfield, that’s gone, it's full-on apartments now,” INF adds.īeyond Onehunga, the members of SWIDT have boldly confronted issues like mental health, toxic masculinity and stereotyping in their subsequent albums and singles. “My mum’s house is like the only state house on the street.

Later in 2017 their coming-of-age album Stoneyhunga referenced the band member’s adolescent experiences growing up in the 90s and directly addressed the ongoing gentrification in their home suburb. Since they were teenagers, house prices in Auckland’s central isthmus have soared, and this has meant a change to the makeup and experience of living in the 312. “The memories and experiences keep it alive, but living there now it’s not the same experience,” says SPYCC. While discontinued today, the line was and remains heavily associated with Onehunga itself.

The track’s name comes from the bus line which ran between Auckland’s city centre and the Onehunga town centre. INF of SWIDT Photo: Supplied / The Downlow Concept
