“Axe Has Been Vanquished”
by Jeremy Egner | New York Times | October 3, 2021
This article includes spoilers from Sunday’s Season 5 finale of “Billions.”
One of TV’s last great antiheroes departed Sunday night on Showtime’s “Billions.”
Bobby Axelrod, the proudly venal hedge-fund titan played by Damian Lewis, flew off into the sunset in the Season 5 finale, slipping the grasp of the law and his chief nemesis, Chuck Rhoades (Paul Giamatti), one last time on his way to a less punitive future in Switzerland.
While the character’s final scene was somewhat open-ended, with Axe (as he is most commonly known) being welcomed by the Swiss authorities after fleeing America, Lewis confirmed in a recent video interview that he was leaving the show.
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