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Some Enemies Make the Best of Friends – Jan 16, 2019

Billions Has Become Something of an Obsession…”

by  Kevin Yedman | Screenrant | January 15, 2019

Season 4 of Showtime’s Billions is just around the corner, and the new full trailer suggests Axe and Chuck will be making deals to ensure their enemies pay dearly. One of the most consistently entertaining series on television, Billions has become something of an obsession for a portion of its audience, as every season seems to raise the bar in terms of the level of its central characters’ audacity, while the series itself seems intent on upending viewers’ expectations with surprising twists, like the season 3 team-up between Chuck (Paul Giamatti), Axe (Damian Lewis), and Wendy (Maggie Siff).

That deviation from the show’s initial premise — that U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades was going to use the considerable power at his disposal to bring shady hedge fund manager Bobby “Axe” Axlerod to justice — gave the series new legs last season, and from the look of what’s ahead in season 4, series showrunners Brian Koppelman and David Levien will be using those legs to run their characters into uncharted territory. What kinds of storylines that will bring remains to be seen, but it looks as though the upcoming season will make great use of its strange bedfellows.

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