Tag: Billions
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Billions Season 7, Episode 5 Recap: Prince Starts to Lose Control
Chuck Deals With PR Crisis; Prince Losing Control of Company by Kyle Fowle | Entertainment Weekly | September 11, 2023 At the top of this week’s episode, Ira (Ben Shenkman) is in a panic. He’s in Chuck’s (Paul Giamatti) office talking about how he was mugged the night before, that someone ran off with his…
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Billions on Showtime, Season 7 Episode 5: The Gulag Archipelago
Revisiting Past Mistakes by Damianista | Fan Fun With Damian Lewis | September 9, 2023 The Gulag Archipelago, mentioned by Victor and that titles the episode, is a book written by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. I never read it but I am familiar with the author thanks to my Russian literature loving parents’ home library. Solzhenitsyn wrote to…
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Billions Season 7, Episode 5 Recap: A Plan Starts to Form
Half the Traders at Prince Cap Became Involved in a Plot Against Their Boss. They Just Didn’t Know It. by Sean T. Collins | New York Times | September 8, 2023 Season 7, Episode 5: ‘The Gulag Archipelago’ Let’s do a little narrative reverse engineering, shall we? Imagine, if you will, that you are a…
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Billions Season 7, Episode 5 Recap: I’ll Wait
A Mouthful of Helium by Sarene Leeds | Vulture | September 8, 2023 If you’re feeling restless after five episodes, I assure you you’re not alone. Unfortunately, “The Gulag Archipelago,†like most of the episodes in this final season of Billions, offered very little payoff. The only significant developments came in the form of Taylor…
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From The Trader’s Desk: A Whole Lotta Rosie!
Billions Season 7 Episode 4 ‘Hurricane Rosie’ by Lady Trader | Fan Fun with Damian Lewis | September 8, 2023 Ooh, a storm is threatening My very life today If I don’t get some shelter Ooh yeah I’m gonna fade away Gimme Shelter – The Rolling Stones We’ve made it to Friday so that means…
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Billions MVPs: Season 7 Episode 4, Hurricane Rosie
The Unbeatable, Unstoppable, Unparalleled MVPs by Staff | Fan Fun With Damian Lewis | September 6, 2023 Billions is back and so is our MVP series! We continue to award our Most Valuable Players for Billions season seven in our series compilation, the ‘Billions MVP Fanbook,’ which commemorates all those in honor of achievement for the utmost brazen, uber shameless, ultra scheming, unmatched bad asses from the…
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Billions Season 7, Episode 4 Recap: Storms and Scams
Chuck and Prince Square Off While a Fugitive Situation Unfolds by Kyle Fowle | Entertainment Weekly | September 3, 2023 There was no way Billions was going to go off the air without doing it. Considering the show’s penchant for displaying the various scams and distortions of the financial elite, it was only a matter…