Tag: Team Axe

“Exceptionally well-plotted, well-acted, and gloriously, hilariously unbridled” by Winston Cook-Wilson | Spin | March 26, 2018 The opening aerial shot of Manhattan, the throbbing electronic soundtrack that eerily fades in–suddenly, my troubles disappear like a dirty million wired to an offshore bank account. It is time for a new episode of Billions, the most enjoyable…

“Billions is TV’s most compelling fable about wealth and power in modern life” by Eric Deggans | NPR | March 27, 2018 Be warned: The review below contains plenty of spoilers about past and present episodes of Billions. The biggest problem Showtime’s Billions has: It’s a show that is way too easy to underestimate. At a time when income…

Reality Index by Staff | Comfortably Smug | March 26, 2018 The recap is back! Welcome back to the Billions Recap Reality Index, where we tally a list of events from each episode and rank on a scale of too real to fail or as fake as a toxic asset’s triple A rating, scored on our wholly…

Just How ‘Woke’ Billions Wants Us to Believe Axe Capital Is by Molly Stout | Refinery 29 | March 26, 2018 After two full seasons of Billions, we are still no closer to choosing sides. In this extravagant chess match between Chuck Rhoades (Paul Giamatti) and Bobby “Axe” Axelrod (Damian Lewis), we’re somehow still rooting…