Tag: Dollar Bill Stearn
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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 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…
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Billions Season 3 Awards – June 10, 2018
MVP, LVP, ROTY, CPOY, and Finale MVP, LVP by Alec Hare | The Breakshot | June 10, 2018 Season 3 Wow. What a season! In Billions Season 3, the plot went left when we thought it would go straight and it went up when we thought it was going to go down. The showrunners pivoting…
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Billions Season 3, Episode 12 Finale Recap: Vulture – June 10, 2018
Pest Control by Nicole Cliffe | Vulture | June 10, 2018 Elmsley Count I’ll be honest: This was a real mixed bag for me! It’s a good episode (they’re all good episodes!) but as big Billions reveals go, “Elmsley Count†lacked the enjoyable punch of the Ice Juice double cross, or Donnie’s dying play, or…
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Billions Season 3, Episode 12 Finale Recap: Forbes – June 10, 2018
Billions’ Creators Brian Koppelman and David Levien Talk Season 3 Finale by Dana Feldman | Forbes | June 10, 2018 Elmsley Count The season finale of Billions entitled “Elmsley Count†was a stunner! Where to begin? Two major things have happened that will make the wait for season four very difficult for diehard fans. First,…
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Billions on Showtime, Season 3 Episode 12: Elmsley Count – June 10, 2018
“As You Sow, So Shall You Reap” by Damianista | Fan Fun with Damian Lewis | June 10, 2018 First things first: Thank you, Billions, for the wonderful Super Fan Season Finale event in New York, thanks to which Lady Trader, Lewisto and I were able to see the season finale a few days earlier…
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Billions Season 3, Episode 12 Finale Recap: New York Times – June 10, 2018
Crash of the Titans by Sean T. Collins | New York Times | June 10, 2018 Elmsley Count The fall was coming from inside the house. After years spent fending off attacks from without, from rival financiers to a certain ax-grinding United States attorney, Bobby Axelrod got caught flat-footed by his own protégé. Making good…