If you were confused by the tweet Swedish billionaire Lukas Matsson (Alexander Skarsgรฅrd) fired off during the latest episode of HBOโs Succession, but more specifically why it threatened to bring the entire Waystar RoyCo investor presentation to a screeching haltโฆ fear not.
We have an easy-to-digest explanation to bring you up to speed without any of the condescension youโd field from, say, Kieran Culkinโs Roman Roy. Or any key player orbiting the black belts of acerbic sarcasm that is the Roy clan, for that matter.
Check it out below.
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Lukas Matsson Succession Season 4 Episode 6 Tweet Explained:
What Does โDoderick Macht Freiโ Mean?
Context
In the Succession season 4 episode 6 (titled โLiving+โ), Waystar Royco unveils the eponymous product offering thatโs a strange blend between their cruise ship experience and gated communities for the elderly.
The dystopic assisted living concept is a spoof of the Walt Disney Companyโs equally-dystopic proposal: โStoryliving by Disney โ vibrant new neighbourhoods that are infused with the Companyโs special brand of magic.โ Only with old people in place of grotesque Disney Adults.
Kendall Roy (Jeremy Strong) himself describes Living+ to his fellow CE-Bro Roman as โplanning to warehouse the elderly and keep them drunk on content while we suck โem dollar-dry.โ
Now, given Skarsgardโs Lukas Matsson is on the verge of acquiring Waystar Royco wholesale, he obviously isnโt too keen on having to pay for something thatโs potentially a loss generator. The Roy clan are simply supposed to be โminding shop,โ after all.
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During a private interaction with Shiv Roy (Sarah Snook), he urges her to somehow kill the rollout, citing real estateโs lack of scalability as a key reason.
When neither Shiv nor Lukas is able to stop the manic runaway train being steered by Kendall and, to a certain extent, Roman, Lukas decides to publicly disparage Living+ with a โvery nastyโ Holocaust joke a la Elon Musk.
But it backfires thanks to a rousing presentation from Kendall, and positive investor outlook off the back of all this sends the Waystar RoyCo stock price skyrocketing.
NOTE: While Lukas Matsson was the one to physically tweet the dark wisecrack in question, we can also credit Shiv for providing the inspiration; the latter having compared Living+ to prison camps on yet another one of their secretive phone calls right before the Gojo founder & CEO hit send.
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Arbeit Macht Frei
โDoderick macht freiโ is a play on the German phrase โArbeit macht frei,โ which translates to โwork sets you freeโ or โwork makes one free.โ This appeared at the entrances of Nazi concentration camps throughout World War II, including the infamous Auschwitz.
Essentially, Lukas Matsson was distastefully comparing Living+ to Nazi concentration camps.
Who is Doderick?
As some of you may recall, Doderick is the official Waystar RoyCo mascot. A cartoon dog intended to be the corporationโs answer to Mickey Mouse.
Doderick is also who Cousin Greg (Nicholas Braun) was dressed as during his extremely brief employment at a Waystar RoyCo amusement park. Right before he vomited through the costumeโs eye holes and got his ass fired for reeking of weed on the job.
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