Category: Review
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Billions Season 3 Premiere Review: Looming Consequences Keep The Series Grounded – March 26, 2018
“Tie Goes to the Runner’ steps up and delivers an assured opening that upsets the balance of things in compelling way” by Kevin Yeoman | Screen Rant | March 26, 2018 The central conflict of Showtime’s Billions lies in the battle between Bobby ‘Axe’ Axelrod and Chuck Rhoades, but the series is admittedly limited in how far…
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Billions Review: Season 3 Is a Well-Oiled Machine Still Coasting on Last Year’s Twist – March 26, 2018
Billions may never top its big Season 2 shakeup, but it’s still seeing benefits in a smooth (perhaps too smooth?) Season 3 by Ben Travers |IndieWire | March 25, 2018 It all started — or ended — with the reveal of Paul Giamatti’s laughing mug. In the penultimate episode of Season 2, “Billions†pulls off…
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Billions on Showtime, Season 3 Episode 1: Tie Goes to the Runner – March 25, 2018
He May be the Liege, the Nagusi, the Sahabi, but Bobby Axelrod is Lonely by Damianista | Fan Fun with Damian Lewis | March 25, 2018 Season 3 picks up a few weeks after the man with nothing to lose put the cuffs on the man with unlimited resources. Axe is indicted, the government has…
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Billions Season Premiere Recap: The Boys Are Back in Town – March 25, 2018
“The best is Wags: everyone’s favorite deeply troubled sashimi gourmand and pill-snorting powerhouse” by Nicole Cliffe | Vulture | March 25, 2018 Welcome back to Billions! At the end of last season, following the BANANAS double-cross, back-whammy, Chicago-two-trot maneuver heretofore known as the Ice Juice IPO, Team Windbreakers seemed like they’d finally got Team Half-Zip…
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The Moral Lines Dividing the Dueling Parties in Billions Have Grown Compellingly Murky – March 25, 2018
“A Wicked, Decadent Comedy About Our Impending Apocalypse” by Chuck Brown | Slant Magazine | March 25, 2018 With Billions, co-creators and showrunners Brian Koppelman and David Levien utilize a narrative structure that recalls Michael Mann’s Heat. Opposing worlds are contrasted in both, showing how similarly obsessive methods can serve conflicting ends that ultimately complement…
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Billions Season 3 Hums Behind the Scenes as Characters Grapple With Political Earthquake – March 25, 2018
“When There’s a Seismic Event, Alliances Shift and Loyalties are Tested” by Cynthia Littleton | Variety | March 25, 2018 When “Billions†begins its third season tonight on Showtime, viewers will find Chuck Rhoades, Bobby Axelrod and the rest of the gang digging out from the upheaval inflicted by Rhoades’ machinations at the end of…
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Tight Writing, Intriguing Payoffs as Billions Begins New Season on Showtime – March 25, 2018
“Irresistible Characters, Addictive Story Lines and Great Writing” by Stephen Spignesi | New Haven Register | March 25, 2018 SPOILERS – READ AT YOUR OWN RISK Major changes are afoot when Showtime’s financial intrigue series “Billions†returns for its third season March 25 at 10 p.m. with the episode “The Tie Goes to the Runner.