The best and worst tributes delivered by Kendall, Roman, Shiv, and Ewan.

WARNING: This story contains spoilers forSuccessionseason 4, episode 9, “Church and State.”

We grade the gabbing below.

They let it lie with him."

If wildly inappropriate to proceedings, the result made for fabulous viewing.

“He was mean, and he made but a mean estimation of the world,” Ewan concluded.

“And he fed a certain kind of meagerness in men.

Perhaps he had to, because he had a meagerness about him.

And maybe I do about me too.

I don’t know.

Godspeed, my brother, and god bless.”

“My father was a brute,” Kendall told the crowd.

“He kept us outside,” Shiv continued, speaking metaphorically, “but he kept everyone outside.

But it was hard to be his daughter.

He was hard on women.

He couldn’t fit a whole woman in his head.

But he did okay.

You did okay, dad.”

Grade: B

TheSuccessionseries finale airs Sunday, May 28, at 9 p.m. ET/PT.