Tag: Malin Akerman
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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 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,…