For the last half of the third season of Billions, we’ve been watching two separate shows interweaved, connected only…
As penultimate episodes go, it would be hard to top last year’s “Golden Frog Time,” in which Chuck pulled off the Ice…
If the back half of season three has been considerably less compelling than what has come before—and I think it has…
The downside to wrapping up your major storylines in the middle of a season is that it can take a while to get ramped…
A week ago, Chuck and Axe were working together. Now they’ve all but forgotten about each other. “All The Wilburys”…
Let’s start with the ending, which is both unexpected and inevitable, as well as the most tantalizing set-up for the…
Sometimes it’s hard to believe Billions hasn’t already been on for 10 years, given the tangled web of backstory it has…
A big part of what makes Billions fun is the tension between the show taking its characters seriously and treating them…
The president’s name has yet to mentioned, but there’s no question that Billions has entered the Trump era. It might…
When you have power and money, what is it that truly makes you happy? If you’re a character on Billions, the top answer…
Chuck Rhoades has a mess to clean up, and in a sense, so do Billions showrunners Brian Koppelman and David Levien, who…
“Ball In Hand” can’t match the electricity of last week’s Ice Juice caper, but that makes sense: this is the hangover…
It’s not out of the ordinary for Showtime to hold back screeners of its season finales, but when word came down this…
Ten episodes in, the trajectories of season two remain steady. The other shoe has yet to drop. A couple of episodes…
“Sic Transit Imperium,” Wags helpfully tells those of us frustrated with Google Translate’s inadequacies, is a Latin…
The scales have been tilted so far in Chuck’s direction this season, Billions has to be setting us up for a big fall.…
A crisis of conscience on Billions? It feels like a little late in the game for Bobby Axelrod to be wrestling with a…
Roughly halfway through this season, Billions has quickly wrapped up several of the major story arcs. Chuck is no…
What Billions does well: present complicated financial schemes simply and clearly enough that someone who is hopeless…