Tag: Chris Carfizzi
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Billions Season 4 Goes for Broke – March 15, 2019
“Billions shifts around enough of its usual architecture to still feel fresh in its fourth season” by Kathryn VanArendonk | Vulture | March 15, 2019 When TV shows have been around for a few seasons, sometimes they get relaxed and hit the autopilot button. Some shows do the opposite, blowing everything up to start completely…
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Final Table Read of Billions Season 4 – Feb 27, 2019
The 48th Episode by Gingersnap | damian-lewis.com | February 27, 2019 On Wednesday, February 27, 2019 Billions co-creator and showrunner Brian Koppelman gave fans a behind the scenes look at the final table read of Billions season four. Scroll through the five images: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Brian Koppelman (@briankoppelman)…
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Five Shows More People Should Be Watching – June 15, 2018
Billions: A Show With Great Scripts and a Fine Cast by Megan McArdle | Washington Post | June 15, 2018 The temptation of writing about culture is always to find something to pan. Critical reviews flow easily from the fingertips, while applause involves the hard labor of finding 16 synonyms for “good.†But I ate my…
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From The Trader’s Desk: Recapping S3E12 ‘Elmsley Count’ – June 15, 2018
Where Does Your Loyalty Lie? by Lady Trader | Fan Fun with Damian Lewis Is this it? Can this really be the last “From the Trader’s Desk†for this season? Sadly, the answer is yes. I have enjoyed writing about Billions from the “Wall Street†side of the things, and hope you’ve enjoyed my posts as…
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What the Rest of TV Can Learn from Billions – July 14, 2018
The Showtime Drama is Built for Speed – and All the Better For It by Alan Speinwall | RollingStone | June 14, 2018 The midpoint of Billions Season 3 featured a huge moment for the series to date: the Showtime drama’s arch-rivals, U.S. attorney Chuck Rhoades (Paul Giamatti) and hedge fund mogul Bobby “Axe†Axelrod…
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Billions on Showtime 3.12: Elmsley Count – June 14, 2018
“Young lungs, so yeah.” by JaniaJania | Fan Fun with Damian Lewis | June 14, 2018 It’s cap raise time for Axe Cap and everyone gets more than they bargained for in Billons Season 3, Episode 12, “Elmsley Count”. The season finale promises to be a doozy with so many threads to tie up. Taylor…
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How Showtime’s Billions Went From Dull to Dazzling – June 12, 2018
Improbably, a series seemingly about rich white guys measuring their dicks is an essential show of our era. (Okay, maybe not that improbable) by Todd VanDerWerff | Vox |June 12, 2018 If you’ve been following the world of TV Twitter this spring, you probably know that a certain subset of this nation’s great, professionally paid…
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How Billions Became One of TV’s Sharpest Critiques of Power – June 11, 2018
“As a Saga of Glittering Financial Warfare, Billions is Seemingly Lab-Engineered to Appeal to the Very People it Claims to be About” by Helen Rosner | The New Yorker | June 11, 2018 For nearly three seasons, the Showtime drama “Billions†has been structured as a classic cat-and-mouse tale, a story of attack and defense between…