Tag: Billions
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In Billions, Damian Lewis and Paul Giamatti are Alpha Males Doing Battle – Jan 16, 2016
In ‘Billions,’ Damian Lewis and Paul Giamatti are Alpha Males Doing Battle by Mary McNamara, Contact Reporter– Los Angeles Times Television Critic – January 16, 2016 “Billions” is very good television. How could it not be? Created by Brian Koppelman, David Levien (“Ocean’s Thirteen”) and Andrew Ross Sorkin (“Too Big to Fail”), it crackles with…
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Billions Season One: Bobby Axelrod and the American Dream – Jan 15, 2016
Billions: Season One by CHUCK BOWEN – Slant Magazine – January 15, 2016 Billions, money isn’t money, but a scorecard signifying a theoretically cold and objective qualification of bitterness and one-upmanship. The show’s dominating characters are too well-off for currency to matter to them in the visceral fashion that it does for most people. As a struggling…
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Review: Billions Delivers a Dose of Charisma to Hedge Fund Titans – Jan 15, 2016
Review: ‘Billions’ Delivers a Dose of Charisma to Hedge Fund Titans  by Heather Havrilesky – The New York Times – January 15, 2016 Men who make lots of money and growl at one another about profits and margins and winning and losing. Remember them? Americans used to love watching stories about those guys, in the…
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On Showtime’s Billions, Paul Giamatti and Damian Lewis Fight a Brutal Class War – Jan 15, 2016
On Showtime’s ‘Billions,’ Paul Giamatti and Damian Lewis fight a brutal class war By Alyssa Rosenberg – Washington Post - January 15, 2016 “Billions†is rooted in an intriguing triangle. It follows crusading U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades (Paul Giamatti), who’s made his name going after Wall Street and has set his sights on hedge fund Bobby Axelrod (“Homeland 
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Billions Takes Cynical Look at Corruption on Both Sides of the Law – Jan 13, 2016
‘Billions’ takes cynical look at corruption — on both sides of the law By David Wiegand – San Francisco Chronicle – January 13, 2016 Vladimir Putin may be one scary ex-KGB agent, but these days, he couldn’t get arrested in Hollywood, so to speak. Russian villains are so last century. Film and TV have gone through a…
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The New Showtime Drama ‘Billions’ Shows Us Two Different Kinds of Power – Jan 13, 2016
The New Showtime Drama ‘Billions’ Shows Us Two Different Kinds of Power Paths to Power – Wall Street vs. The Justice System Business Insider – January 13, 2016 “Billions,” the new original drama from SHOWTIME®, stars Paul Giamatti and Damian Lewis as two opposing forces in the very different worlds of the Justice System and Wall Street.…
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Billions Behind the Scenes: Season 1 – Jan 9, 2016
Billions Behind the Scenes: The Insiders |Season 1