Category: Recap
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Billions on Showtime, Season 7 Episode 3: Winston Dick Energy
Performance Anxiety by Damianista | Fan Fun With Damian Lewis | August 26, 2023 The first Axe-less episode in the final season has three storylines that are light-hearted compared to those in the first two. A few lead characters doing soul-searching brings complexity that leave the viewers asking for more! I do not know if…
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Billions Season 7, Episode 3 Recap: Hamster Wheel
Classic Billions Sabotage by Sarene Leeds | Vulture | August 25, 2023 It’s pretty hard to beat “Winston Dick Energy,†but if I had to give this episode a different title, it would be the overlong “How Wags, Wendy, and Chuck Got Their Groove Back.†With no Axe in this week’s episode, Billions is forced…
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Billions Season 7, Episode 3 Recap: Confidence Games
Mike Thinks He Sets a Trap for a Certain New U.S. Attorney by Sean T. Collins | New York Times | August 25, 2023 Season 7, Episode 3: ‘Winston Dick Energy’ Chuck Rhoades is a man of action — most of the time. His proprietary blend of intellect and emotion is what made him the…
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From The Trader’s Desk: Everyone’s Playing 3-D Chess!
Billions Season 7 Episode 2 ‘Original Sin’ by Lady Trader | Fan Fun with Damian Lewis | August 25, 2023 Got no religion, don’t need no friends Got all I want and I don’t need to pretend Don’t try to reach me, ’cause I’ll tear up your mind I’ve seen the future and I’ve left…
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Billions Season 7 Episode 2 Original Sin Recap
Freedom, Plotting, and the Power of Cowboy Boots by Kyle Fowle| Entertainment Weekly | August 20, 2023 Axe has a castle. I mean, of course Axe has a castle. As the second episode of the season kicks off, Wags (David Costabile), Wendy (Maggie Siff), and Taylor (Asia Kate Dillon) are visiting Axe (Damian Lewis) in…
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Billions on Showtime, Season 7 Episode 2: Original Sin
Redemption by Damianista | Fan Fun With Damian Lewis | August 19, 2023 Two episodes in and my head is still spinning. ‘Original Sin’ reminds me of Axe’s trading style that Mafee talks about in the season premiere: Fast. Aggressive. Sure-footed. And I applaud the writers’ room and everyone behind and in front of the…
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Billions Season 7, Episode 2 Recap: The Hard Sell
Castle Axelrod: Knights of the Round Table by Sean T. Collins | New York Times | August 18, 2023 Season 7, Episode 2: ‘Original Sin’ Who’s the most terrifying egomaniac in the series right now? It might not be Mike Prince. A man’s home is his castle. It’s a comforting, if patriarchal and consumerist, cliché.…
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Billions Season 7, Episode 2 ‘Original Sin’ Recap
It Aint Me, Babe by Sarene Leeds | Vulture | August 18, 2023 We’re still a long way off from figuring out what Wendy Rhoades did to cause Mike Prince to break stuff last week. By the end of “Original Sin,†the initial delight of seeing Wendy and the old Axe Cap gang practically skip…