Category: Review
-
Billions Season 3, Episode 10 Recap: New York Times – May 27, 2018
Defcon 6 by Sean T. Collins | New York Times | May 27, 2018 Redemption “Billions†has always been an odd-couple show. From its pilot episode to its Twitter hashtag emoji, it’s centered on the contrast between the lean, mean local boy made good Bobby Axelrod and the gruff, tough Yale-educated bulldog Chuck Rhoades. Played…
-
Billions Season 3, Episode 9 Recap: New York Times – May 20, 2018
Bear Market by Sean T. Collins | New York Times | May 20, 2018 Icebreaker You can take the boys out of the blood feud, but you can’t take the blood feud out of the boys. Just two episodes after the successful conclusion of the truce that saw the main men of “Billions†call an…
-
Billions Season 3, Episode 8 Recap: New York Times – May 13, 2018
Downright Gubernatorial by Sean T. Collins | New York Times | May 13, 2018 All the Wilburys The dust has settled, but “Billions†has not. After last week’s tour de force put an end to two and a half seasons’ worth of warfare between Bobby Axelrod and Chuck Rhoades, you might expect the show to…
-
The Schneiderman Allegations Make the TV Show Billions Look a Lot More Like Real Life – May 9, 2018
“Lewis, with his singular white-skinned, red-haired coloring and swimming-pool blue eyes, is always mesmerizing to watch” by Eve MacSweeney | Vogue | May 9, 2018 One of the credibility stretching conceits of the Showtime drama Billions is that one of its lead characters, a high-ranking government lawyer played by Paul Giamatti, is a hard-core sexual…
-
Billions Season 3, Episode 7 Recap: New York Times – May 6, 2018
Street Punks by Sean T. Collins | New York Times | May 6, 2018 Not You, Mr. Dake Before we formally open tonight’s recap, here’s a tip, from my critic’s notebook to you. When you get deep into a season of a prestige drama and you see the names of the showrunners pop up under…
-
Billions Season 3, Episode 6 Recap: New York Times – April 29, 2018
Eat or Be Eaten by Sean T. Collins | New York Times | April 29, 2018 The Third Ortolan If there’s one place where we can come together in these divided times, surely it’s to appreciate a show that gives us opening scenes like the one this week: Axe and Wags, sitting at a table…
-
Billions: Super Antiheros – April 24, 2018
The Superhero Show About Finance and the Tale of Two Warring Goliaths by Rachel Syme | The New Republic | April 24, 2018 Billions reckons with the inflated egos and muddled ethics of Wall Street. The first season of Billions premiered in January 2016— eight years after the collapse of the subprime mortgage market and eleven months before…
-
Billions Season 3, Episode 5 Recap: New York Times – April 22, 2018
The Family We Choose by Sean T. Collins | New York Times | April 22, 2018 Flaw in the Death Star This week on “Billions,†romance is in the air. Who’da thunk it, right? Sex, sexuality, the rewards and compromises of long-term relationships, even the eroticized thrill of spectacular professional success — these themes are…