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Review: Billions Delivers a Dose of Charisma to Hedge Fund Titans – Jan 15, 2016

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Review: ‘Billions’ Delivers a Dose of Charisma to Hedge Fund Titans

 by Heather Havrilesky – The New York Times – January 15, 2016

Damian Lewis portrays the hedge fund titan Bobby Axelrod in the series “Billions,” beginning Sunday on Showtime.
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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 years before the excesses of Wall Street spawned a great recession and before Bernie Madoff brought abject fear back to personal investing. Once their shortsighted shell games toppled the world economy, though, it was a little harder to get into that high-capitalist gambling spirit.

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Billions Season One: First Takes – Oct 15, 2015

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Billions is a new original series about the collision between a US attorney and a hedge fund billionaire played by Damian Lewis. Watch the first promo clip below.

Damian states, “The script was strongest script I had read in a while and I wanted to be a part of it.”

Showtime released the first poster for the upcoming series, which airs January 17,