Category: Recap

Step Up To The Mike by Sean T. Collins | New York Times | May 10, 2020 Season 5, Episode 2: ‘The Chris Rock Test’ Welcome to the Mike Conference, named with characteristic humility by its founder, decabillionaire Mike Prince. It’s a place for fireside chats that double as vicious duels, for charitable acts that…

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…

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”…

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…

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…

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.…