Category: Review
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Five Shows More People Should Be Watching – June 15, 2018
Billions: A Show With Great Scripts and a Fine Cast by Megan McArdle | Washington Post | June 15, 2018 The temptation of writing about culture is always to find something to pan. Critical reviews flow easily from the fingertips, while applause involves the hard labor of finding 16 synonyms for “good.†But I ate my…
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What the Rest of TV Can Learn from Billions – July 14, 2018
The Showtime Drama is Built for Speed – and All the Better For It by Alan Speinwall | RollingStone | June 14, 2018 The midpoint of Billions Season 3 featured a huge moment for the series to date: the Showtime drama’s arch-rivals, U.S. attorney Chuck Rhoades (Paul Giamatti) and hedge fund mogul Bobby “Axe†Axelrod…
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How Showtime’s Billions Went From Dull to Dazzling – June 12, 2018
Improbably, a series seemingly about rich white guys measuring their dicks is an essential show of our era. (Okay, maybe not that improbable) by Todd VanDerWerff | Vox |June 12, 2018 If you’ve been following the world of TV Twitter this spring, you probably know that a certain subset of this nation’s great, professionally paid…
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How Billions Became One of TV’s Sharpest Critiques of Power – June 11, 2018
“As a Saga of Glittering Financial Warfare, Billions is Seemingly Lab-Engineered to Appeal to the Very People it Claims to be About” by Helen Rosner | The New Yorker | June 11, 2018 For nearly three seasons, the Showtime drama “Billions†has been structured as a classic cat-and-mouse tale, a story of attack and defense between…
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Billions Season 3 Awards – June 10, 2018
MVP, LVP, ROTY, CPOY, and Finale MVP, LVP by Alec Hare | The Breakshot | June 10, 2018 Season 3 Wow. What a season! In Billions Season 3, the plot went left when we thought it would go straight and it went up when we thought it was going to go down. The showrunners pivoting…
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Billions Season 3, Episode 12 Finale Recap: New York Times – June 10, 2018
Crash of the Titans by Sean T. Collins | New York Times | June 10, 2018 Elmsley Count The fall was coming from inside the house. After years spent fending off attacks from without, from rival financiers to a certain ax-grinding United States attorney, Bobby Axelrod got caught flat-footed by his own protégé. Making good…
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Billions Season 3, Episode 11 Recap: New York Times – June 3, 2018
Salt to Taste by Sean T. Collins | New York Times | June 3, 2018 Kompenso This week, on “Billionsâ€: Salt Bae. The viral-video sensation and steakhouse hearthrob Nusret Gokce makes an unexpected appearance to open the episode. Of all the real-life restaurateurs, athletes and hedge-fund aristocracy who’ve appeared on this show, none made me…