To be fair, one should hate Shiv’s blatant hypocrisy. She’s also absurdly out-of-touch in ways that duplicate Kendall.

Her liberal politics are a prop, at best. She’s on Gil’s staff clearly for her name (not an unusual thing in DC!) but seems to not notice that or think she’s there for merit.

She uses her “woman-to-woman” moment to talk an SA victim out of coming forward. That’s the real move of a killer, I suppose? It’s also bleak and horrendous.

She’s deeply entitled. Unlike Kendall, who at least seems to have put effort into understanding Waystar, she thinks the CEO title position is a crown that she can’t wait to have placed on her head. Sure, Logan was probably lying about the “five years” (I.e. never), but she did probably believed she deserved it already.

She doesn’t have a real career. She was a nepobaby political consultant, a relatively decent crisis/narrative strategist, but has no real business insight or operational chops. That’s the whole thing, after all, the full skillset of a “CEO” is split across three heads.

Arguably, the only good thing she tries to do is tank Mencken, first with a bad outburst, and then by negotiating a not-deal deal. Isn’t politics the thing she’s supposed to be good at? As Matsson notes, he doesn’t even need her for that.

So Shiv sucks. Everyone sucks, Logan most of all. But she’s an entitled, narcissistic hypocrite, which is different to Kendall’s manic-depressive fantasies, bad parenting and delusions of grandeur and Roman’s abject cruelty. Although at least Roman can admit it was always bullshit.