Category: Print Media
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Billions Season 5 Episode 2 Recap: Wall Street Journal – May 11, 2020
Chess and Ayahuasca by Paul Vigna | Wall Street Journal | May 11, 2020 There is a scene in Sunday’s episode of “Billions†in which guests at an exclusive conference are playing chess against a grandmaster (a cameo from real-world grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura). Tables are set up with boards, each person maneuvering and machinating while…
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Billions Season 5 Episode 2 Recap: Forbes – May 10, 2020
Axe Finally Met His Match by Dana Feldman | Forbes | May 10, 2020 Not one to back down from a challenge, Axe finally takes Mike Prince up on his offer for a fireside chat at his annual charity conference but things for Axe Cappers do not go well…at all. In “The Chris Rock Test 
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Billions Season 5 Episode 2 Recap: Entertainment Weekly – May 10, 2020
Axe’s New Foe Beats Him At His Own Game by Kyle Fowle | Entertainment Weekly | May 10, 2020 In the season premiere of Billions, Axe meets the man he believes to be his latest adversary. I say “believes to be” because for Axe, everyone is his enemy. He’ll never be happy nor satisfied with…
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Billions Season 5 Episode 2 Recap: Vulture – May 10, 2020
Dark Passenger by Sarene Leeds | Vulture | May 10, 2020 Who is more abhorrent? The guy who imperiously proclaims to be a “monster,†the guy who hides his monstrous qualities behind a façade of bogus humility, or the guy claiming to keep his monster at bay with a code? This is a question that…
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Billions on Showtime, Season 5 Episode 2: The Chris Rock Test – May 10, 2020
Monsters and Serial Killers by Damianista | Fan Fun with Damian Lewis | May 10, 2020 It does not matter if it is a carnivorous or a cuddly one. Or one that lives with a code. Billions Season 5 Episode 2 The Chris Rock Test demonstrates that a monster is a monster no matter what.…
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10 Actors You Forgot Were In Agatha Christie’s Poirot – May 8, 2020
Hickory, Dickory, Dock by Mariana Fernandes | Screen Rant | May 8, 2020 Going back to watch Agatha Christie’s Poirot is always a fun endeavor. David Suchet is arguably the actor who better embodies Christie’s character, and the adventures of the Belgian detective are enacted down to perfection. Fans of the genre have a real treat in…
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The Billions Cast on What They’ve Learned from Wall Street – May 5, 2020
Rage Rooms and Mason Jars by Lane Florsheim | Wall Street Journal | May 4, 2020 When stay-at-home orders began, the cast and crew of Billions had finished seven of season 5’s twelve episodes, the first of which aired May 3. On a Zoom call with WSJ., some of the cast and crew’s most vital…
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Billions Season 5 Episode 1 Recap: Wall Street Journal – May 5, 2020
Enlightenment and ‘Deca’-Dence by Paul Vigna | Wall Street Journal | May 4, 2020 “Kings? They don’t blow around, man. They stand there and they take.†Axe is back, and he’s on the road, scruffy and bearded, on an ostensibly Zen motorcycle trip with Wags, his right-hand reprobate (we’re not judging). In a tent with…