Billions Review: This Review Is Filled With Complaints
Broadly speaking, there are two ways to tell a story: by plot, or by character. No show is wholly plot, and no show is totally character, as the former gets s
Category: Billions
Wealth, influence and corruption collide in this drama set in New York. Shrewd U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades is embroiled in a high-stakes game of predator vs. prey with the ambitious hedge-fund king, Bobby Axelrod
Billions Review: Erosion As Inevitability
It’s interesting to me that the people talking about principles are the ones with so, so much to lose. Kate’s father is obviously wealthy; perhaps
Billions Review: Building Foundations
When a man is drunk, and drives your kids home drunk, it is both fair and understandable to be angry. It’s even justifiable to drive over to his house,
Billions Review: The Failures of Chuck and Bobby
Mike “Wags” Wagner is a lunatic. He talks to Wendy, without fear of judgement, about his desire to dominate women. He speaks often in crude, disgu
Billions Season 1 Episode 5: “The Good Life”
In the fourth episode review of Billions, I wrote that Bobby Axlerod could smell his own blood in the water, and was getting out of the business to save him
Billions Season 1 Episode 4 Review: “Short Squeeze”
For the first time, I can say that I enjoyed the totality of a Billions episode. There are still some issues that need resolving; the banter, for starters,
Billions Season 1 Episode 3 Review: “Yumtime”
Here’s one reading of tonight’s Billions, and the one that I greatly prefer: Bobby Axlerod fancies himself a genius. He purchased a massive stake
Billions Season 1 Episode 2 Review: “Naming Rights”
On Billions, you’re invited to believe, at first, that Wendy Rhoades is a neutral bystander. She’s caught in a war—one that she knows is going o
Billions Season 1 Episode 1 Review: “Pilot”
The front cover of a puzzle box is a picture of what the puzzle is supposed to be at completion. It’s a handy guide, too, as you fit the pieces together
