Tag: Clancy Brown
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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…
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Billions Superlatives: Best, Worst, Most from S3E12 Finale – June 11, 2018
Town Scooters, Spanx, and Face Slaps by Miles Surrey | The Ringer | June 11, 2018 Here is the best, worst, and most from the final episode of Season 3 The penultimate Billions episode of this great third season ended with a meteoric mic drop: Taylor was setting up their own firm and leaving Axe Capital. That’s the kind…
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Billions Wraps Season with High-Stakes Double Crosses – June 10, 2018
The Dog-Eat-Purebred-Dog World of Billions by Brian Lowry | CNN | June 10, 2018 In the dog-eat-purebred-dog world of “Billions,” the fastest way to flip the script is to engineer a shift in existing alliances. The producers did precisely that in the niftily choreographed third-season finale, setting the stage for a pair of juicy plot…