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Despite a lack of likable characters, Billions' soapy melodrama and larger-than-life canvas offer plenty of repeat viewing potential. Read critic reviews
Billions (2016)
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Episodes
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1. Pilot
Air date: Jan 17, 2016
A New York attorney gets an inside tip about a billionaire's insider trading, and although the case could make his career, his wife has ties to the billionaire.
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2. Naming Rights
Air date: Jan 24, 2016
Axe takes measures to gird the company against the investigation; Wendy must prove her loyalty; Chuck's probe is temporarily derailed; Hall develops a mole; Axe makes an aggressive move.
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3. YumTime
Air date: Jan 31, 2016
Chuck learns that a rival has made inroads in the Axe case; Axe makes an activist play for a family-owned bakery corporation.
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4. Short Squeeze
Air date: Feb 7, 2016
Axe meets a woman who makes him face the limits of his freedom; one of Axe's important holdings is attacked; Chuck learns the inner workings of Axe Capital.
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5. The Good Life
Air date: Feb 14, 2016
Axe orders his traders to unload, then disappears from Axe Capital; Wags and Wendy try to maintain morale; Chuck intensifies his investigation, and finds a key witness.
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6. The Deal
Air date: Feb 21, 2016
Axe plans a scorched-earth defense against the public attack on his company; Chuck's interrogation does not go as planned; Wendy tries to facilitate a deal that hinges on a meeting between Axe and Chuck.
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7. The Punch
Air date: Mar 6, 2016
Pressure starts to take its toll on Axe; Chuck uses the past to his advantage.
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8. Boasts and Rails
Air date: Mar 13, 2016
The case is jeopardized by a tip; secrets from Axe's past come to light.
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9. Where the F... Is Donnie?
Air date: Mar 20, 2016
Axe and Chuck are spinning in the wake of a sudden, but mysterious disappearance.
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10. Quality of Life
Air date: Mar 27, 2016
Following a death, Axe and Wendy do some soul-searching; Chuck suffers a setback; a corrupt judge dismisses the case; Axe takes his revenge.
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Critic Reviews for Billions: Season 1
Audience Reviews for Billions: Season 1
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Every character in this show that has more than two lines of dialogue is essentially the same person. The writers do not know how to write anything except a pompous person who thinks they're the greatest and has to constantly prove it and make tons of references to show how clever they are. If it was just one character, it would work, especially if it was Paul Giamatti as he pulls off that insufferable type of person very well. The problem is you have every single character doing this stuff, including Dan Soder who is a stoner comedian, he's not a pompous windbag.
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What a great show, we are hooked - binge season 2 asap.
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Great setting of characters and interesting plot laid out for the future of the series. Definitely captivated me to learn more and continue watching. One main issue personally is that I found it hard to see who to root for. Nonetheless, great series with an exciting future.
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Great season to kick off the series
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Billions is an incredibly compelling show that takes you on a thrilling ride of greed, power, and manipulation. It follows the lives of hedge fund king Bobby Axelrod, U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades, and their entourages as they battle for supremacy. The writing is superb, the acting is top notch and the stakes are always high. The show offers a gripping look into the world of high finance, politics, and human behavior. It's a must-see for any fan of drama.
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Well, I have to say this compares very poorly to Succession. After binging my way through all the Succession episodes, I was looking forward to more of the same genre of the cutthroat business world. However, whereas it was thrilling to watch the super rich and glitzy Roy family and all the trappings of their tremendous wealth as they schemed and stabbed each other in the back, it has been an ordeal getting through Billions. There is no humor, redeeming characters, or fun in this show at all. Though the characters in Succession are quite repugnant as well, at least they are interesting…Kieran Caulkin in particular is hilarious in embodying his uninhabited walking talking id. Billions on the other hand is morose. Despite the name, the sets are not particularly glitzy nor befitting of people with that amount of wealth. It is particularly hampered by an implausible and increasingly unwieldy plot. Seriously, Paul Giamatti's wife is still working at Ace Capital while he endeavors to take him down? He "recuses" himself from the case only to pull the strings behind the scenes? This from a man with serious political aspirations. And then he has a plea deal in hand along with a check for $1.9 billion dollars from Damian Lewis only to blow up the deal simply due to hubris? Are you serious??? Well, of course there could be no deal because that would make for a very short series. And that is perhaps why the whole thing just doesn't work. The premise is ridiculous. Maggie Siff's role is essentially just an extended deus ex machina that runs through the entire series. I don't think I'll be able to sit through the rest of the five seasons.
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All the seasons come in at a 9.5 but except for the last season which was to PC or Woke for my taste. Episode 3 season 6 show several close up life size photos of failed gubernatorial candidate Stacy Abrams in Axe Capitals office. How ironic this episode played during Abrams photo scandal of her unmasked with masked students at an Atalanta elementary school. The first five seasons were great but with Lewis departure and the new Woke theme, I stopped watching for do not care what happens during this final season.
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There's some great moments and some great acting, particularly from Paul Giamatti. And hey they gave a job to some comedians I like. However, the writers are arrogant as hell and it trickles down into each and every character in the show except maybe Mafee. Everyone has to be quippy and give obscure references to show how just how smart they are all the time. You can feel the sense of superiority in the writing...and if it was just for characters who rightly have a sense of superiority that'd be fine, but it is EVERY CHARACTER. They all have the same condescending tone and want to constantly show off how smart they are, it drowns the overall vibe of the show because everyone's a one-dimensional two-face that's always trying to one-up everyone else. This is what happens when people are just a lil' smart, they have to flaunt it. If the writers were as brilliant as they wished they were, they'd probably be the characters in the show instead of just writing about them.
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The type of show we all come to HBO for. An iteration of Entourage with a different and diverse spin. Somehow tells a story we'd all secretly like to be apart of.
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late to the party here - just finished Season 1. when this show isn't knee deep in pandering doo doo (which isn't often), and forgiving the occasional badly written\badly delivered line (again, it's not too often, but is noticeable), it will satisfy most who like to sit down to a good 60 minute commercial free TV show - serial for grownups. or naughty wannabe grownups!
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