Category: Media
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Billions Season Premiere Recap: The Boys Are Back in Town – March 25, 2018
“The best is Wags: everyone’s favorite deeply troubled sashimi gourmand and pill-snorting powerhouse” by Nicole Cliffe | Vulture | March 25, 2018 Welcome back to Billions! At the end of last season, following the BANANAS double-cross, back-whammy, Chicago-two-trot maneuver heretofore known as the Ice Juice IPO, Team Windbreakers seemed like they’d finally got Team Half-Zip…
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Brian Koppelman on John Malkovich’s New Role on Billions – March 25, 2018
The series co-creator joined ‘The Bill Simmons Podcast’ to discuss upcoming story lines and setting the show’s tone by Bill Simmons | The Ringer | March 25, 2018 Billions Season 3 premieres Sunday night with new characters and new story lines — but the same old Axe and Wags. Series cocreator Brian Koppelman joined The Bill Simmons…
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The Moral Lines Dividing the Dueling Parties in Billions Have Grown Compellingly Murky – March 25, 2018
“A Wicked, Decadent Comedy About Our Impending Apocalypse” by Chuck Brown | Slant Magazine | March 25, 2018 With Billions, co-creators and showrunners Brian Koppelman and David Levien utilize a narrative structure that recalls Michael Mann’s Heat. Opposing worlds are contrasted in both, showing how similarly obsessive methods can serve conflicting ends that ultimately complement…
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Axe & Rhoades’ Agendas This Season – March 25, 2018
Billions’ EP Brian Koppelman Previews Axe & Rhoades’ New Season 3 Agendas by Ileane Rudolph | TV Insider | March 25, 2018 Money, politics, power, corruption—and two men who’ll do anything to take each other down. Billions is back! As the drama begins its third season, hedge fund titan Bobby “Axe†Axelrod (Damian Lewis) and…
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Eight of the Best TV Shows to Watch This Week – March 25, 2018
“Expect Some Dangerous Liaisons – Financial or Otherwise” The Irish Times | March 25, 2018 Billions Thursday, Sky Atlantic, 9pm An old rivalry has exploded again, and this time it’s gone nuclear. The long-running war between dodgy hedge fund billionaire Bobby Axelrod and New York attorney Chuck Rhoades brings even more fallout in the third…
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Billions Season 3 Hums Behind the Scenes as Characters Grapple With Political Earthquake – March 25, 2018
“When There’s a Seismic Event, Alliances Shift and Loyalties are Tested” by Cynthia Littleton | Variety | March 25, 2018 When “Billions†begins its third season tonight on Showtime, viewers will find Chuck Rhoades, Bobby Axelrod and the rest of the gang digging out from the upheaval inflicted by Rhoades’ machinations at the end of…
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Tight Writing, Intriguing Payoffs as Billions Begins New Season on Showtime – March 25, 2018
“Irresistible Characters, Addictive Story Lines and Great Writing” by Stephen Spignesi | New Haven Register | March 25, 2018 SPOILERS – READ AT YOUR OWN RISK Major changes are afoot when Showtime’s financial intrigue series “Billions†returns for its third season March 25 at 10 p.m. with the episode “The Tie Goes to the Runner. 
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Billions Season 3: TV Review – March 24, 2018
“TV’s Most Successful Penis-Free Depiction of Non-Stop Penis-Measuring” by Daniel Feinberg | Hollywood Reporter | March 24, 2018 Showtime’s wonderfully acted, frequently repetitive game of Manhattan cat-and-mouse doesn’t take another qualitative leap in its third season, but the drama remains high. Skippable pre-credit filler on many shows, the “Previously on…” recap montage is mandatory viewing…