Category: Review
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…