Category: Review
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…