I just miss you, as simple as that

These two women were born into wealth. They are go getting liberal leaning career girls. We are introduced to them as smart and ambitious women who have made a career outside the family business and believe themselves above it all.

Shiv is estranged from her mother. Meadow looks down on hers for being a housewife. They are both regarded as better than their brothers by their father.

These two women are aware of the ugliness beneath their respective families business. The Mafia for Meadow and the massive cover up of sexual abuse by Waystar Royco for Shiv.

Which is why they distance themselves away from any association in the beginning convincing themselves that they are morally correct and self righteous for doing so, even though it was their family name that mainly brought them so far in their careers.

Though try as they might to rebel against their fathers, doing anything leftist to displease their conservative patriarchs. The allure and glamour of the high end lifestyle their fathers provide through spilt blood is too much to resist.

Summer. Beach.