Jun 14
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“The Limitless Shit” was never meant to meant to serve as a mid-season finale. That status was dictated by…
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May 3
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As the fifth season of Billions opens, our two leads both find themselves in midlife crisis mode. In Chuck’s case,…
Jun 9 2019
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“Can people change” is a bit of an overwrought theme for TV these days, the motivating engine of a thousand antihero…
Jun 2 2019
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This is when Billions is at its best— when seemingly dozens of plates are spinning at once, and it’s exhilarating to…
May 26 2019
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Money never sleeps, as the misbegotten sequel to Wall Street informed us, and evidently it never takes a holiday…
May 12 2019
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We’re in the doldrums of this season of Billions, the point at which you can set your watch to the reversals of…
May 5 2019
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The characters on Billions all consider themselves to be alphas, and most of them are probably right—within the…
Apr 28 2019
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Regular readers of these reviews know that their track record of predicting Billions plot developments is not the…
Apr 21 2019
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The “previously on Billions” segment alerts us that some familiar faces will be showing up this week, giving your…
Apr 14 2019
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If you’re a Billions fan (and if you’re reading this, I assume you are), it’s probably safe to say that likable…
Apr 7 2019
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Billions has never been afraid to burn through plot at a faster than expected pace, but “Overton Window” takes that…
Mar 31 2019
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Sometimes the episode title is a tip-off that we’re not in for the weightiest hour of the season, and “Chickentown”…
Mar 24 2019
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New characters are the lifeblood of a veteran series, so it’s no surprise that even with last year’s new adversaries…
Mar 17 2019
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When last we saw Chuck Rhoades and Bobby Axelrod, both were licking their wounds and plotting vengeance—but not…
Jun 10 2018
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For the last half of the third season of Billions, we’ve been watching two separate shows interweaved, connected…
Jun 3 2018
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As penultimate episodes go, it would be hard to top last year’s “Golden Frog Time,” in which Chuck pulled off the…
May 27 2018
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If the back half of season three has been considerably less compelling than what has come before—and I think it has…
May 20 2018
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The downside to wrapping up your major storylines in the middle of a season is that it can take a while to get…
May 13 2018
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A week ago, Chuck and Axe were working together. Now they’ve all but forgotten about each other. “All The Wilburys”…
May 6 2018
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