Tag: David Strathairn

“Nexus” by JaniaJania | Fan Fun with Damian Lewis | May 2, 2018 Like three delicately delicious birds, Wendy, Bobby, and Chuck are poised above the deep fryer in Billions Season 3, Episode 6, ‘The Third Ortolan.” If Wendy had only waited to make the call to short Ice Juice once she was at a…

Connerty Gains The Upper Hand  by Dana Feldman | Forbes | April 30, 2018 Showtime’s drama Billions officially hit the halfway point of its third season with the sixth episode entitled “The Third Ortolan” and honestly, the show just keeps getting better. Show creators Brian Koppelman and David Levien were not exaggerating when they said they were taking…

Break the Stick by Nicole Cliffe | Vulture | April 29, 2018 The Third Ortolan Are we all partially recovered from last week’s episode? I’m not, but they’re paying me to do this so I have to soldier on. I had thought we’d get a chance to draw a breath, but that turned out to…

“The kind of complex, taut high-wire act that Billions pulls off with regularity” by Kyle Fowle | Entertainment Weekly | April 29, 2018 The Third Ortolan At the very beginning of “The Third Ortolan,” Axe and Wags are seated at a fancy dinner table, their heads covered by cloth napkins, wine flanking their empty place…

“Fate, Up Against Your Will” by JaniaJania | Fan Fun with Damian Lewis | April 25, 2018 In case you haven’t noticed, I tend to watch stuff with the eyes of one who looks for dark and light and all the gradations in between. Light for the fun and entertaining, dark for the real and…