Category: Review
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Billions Has Become TV’s Sharpest Critique Of Toxic Masculinity – April 16, 2018
Billions is the Best Show About the Worst Kind of Masculinity by Alison Willmore | BuzzFeed News | April 16, 2018 In its third season, Showtime’s Billions has snapped into focus from being a blurry series about power to an infinitely sharper one about gender. Spoilers through last night’s episode, “Hell of a Ride,” below. Dick is a…
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Billions Season 3, Episode 4 Recap: Sealed with a Kiss – April 15, 2018
“It’s Oedipus all the way down, folks.” by Sean T. Collins | New York Times | April 15, 2018 Hell of a Ride Chuck Rhoades Jr. and Charles Rhoades Sr. are at war. They have been since the last season of “Billions,†when son betrayed father as part of a plot by Chuck to ruin…
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Billions on Showtime, Season 3 Episode 3: A Generation Too Late – April 9, 2018
Truffles to Hot Dogs to Burgers: There is No Such Thing as a Free Lunch by Damianista | Fan Fun with Damian Lewis | April 9, 2018 Talk about twists and turns — Billions is on fire! As Ira and his fiancee are having dinner at Craft, the new Halls are sitting at the next table recording their…
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Billions Season 3, Episode 3 Recap: Boss Moves – April 8, 2018
“Funny and fast-paced though it is, Billions likes it quite dark indeed.” by Sean T. Collins | New York Times | April 8, 2018 A Generation Too Late “Is that what being a boss does to you?†When the stand-up guy Bryan Connerty asks this of his superior, Oliver Dake, contempt drips from every word.…
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Billions Recap: Black Swan – April 2, 2018
“Axe realizes that he’s Taylor’s hedge” by Nicole Cliffe | Vulture | April 1, 2018 Nothing makes an episode of Billions pop like a scheme: the high-wire tension of the initial Ice Juice play, followed by its equally-thrilling unravelling, or watching Axe squeeze a short until someone’s eyes pop out. After a (very good) week…
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Billions Season 3, Episode 2: ‘The Wrong Maria Gonzalez’ – April 2, 2018
What are the Chances Axe Can Actually Keep His Hand Out of the Cookie Jar? by Sean T. Collins | New York Times | April 1, 2018 Live like a king. It’s a phrase that connotes wealth, luxury, excess, a life of unlimited possibility and security. How easy it is to let the sparkle of…
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Billions Recap: ‘The Wrong Maria Gonzalez’ – April 2, 2018
“Welcome back, Billions” by Kyle Fowle | Entertainment Weekly | April 1, 2018 When, near the end of last week’s season premiere of Billions, Axe agreed to give up his ability to trade in order to move the case along and maybe save Axe Capital in the process, everybody watching at home, and everybody in the…
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Billions on Showtime, Season 3 Episode 2: The Wrong Maria Gonzalez – April 1, 2018
You Can Take the Boy Out of the Trade, But You Cannot Take the Trade Out of the Boy by Damianista | Fan Fun with Damian Lewis | April 1, 2018 Axe needs to stay away from trading. He does not. Chuck needs to stay away from the case. He does not. As both suffer…