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Billions

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Billions is the story of Chuck Rhoades, Jr. (Paul Giamatti), US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and his epic struggle with hedge fund investor and dashing rogue, Bobby 'Axe' Axelrod (Damian Lewis).

They don't so much play three-dimensional chess as they do five-dimensional Othello, with great swathes of friends, loved ones, and audience understanding of events being overturned from one side to the other. If you like shows with a good guy and a bad guy, we don't have either of those. But if you like complicated characters aggressively figuring things out at one another, you've found your show.

Billions ran for seven seasons and originally aired on Showtime from 2016-2023. It can currently be found on Paramount+ and Amazon Prime.

Billions is being reviewed by Mikey Heinrich.

Season One

1.1 Pilot
1.2 Naming Rights
1.3 YumTime
1.4 Short Squeeze
1.5 The Good Life
1.6 The Deal
1.7 The Punch
1.8 Boasts and Rails
1.9 Where the F*ck is Donnie?
1.10 Quality of Life
1.11 Magical Thinking
1.12 The Conversation

Season Two

2.1 Risk Management
2.2 Dead Cat Bounce
2.3 Optimal Play
2.4 The Oath
2.5 Currency
2.6 Indian Four
2.7 Victory Lap
2.8 The Kingmaker
2.9 Sic Transit Imperium
2.10 With or Without You
2.11 Golden Frog Time
2.12 Ball in Hand

Season Three

3.1 Tie Goes to the Runner
3.2 The Wrong Maria Gonzalez
3.3 A Generation Too Late
3.4 Hell of a Ride
3.5 Flaw in the Death Star
3.6 The Third Ortolan
3.7 Not You, Mr. Dake
3.8 All the Wilburys
3.9 Icebreaker
3.10 Redemption
3.11 Kompenso
3.12 Elmsley Count

Season Four

4.1 Chucky Rhoades's Greatest Game
4.2 Arousal Template
4.3 Chickentown
4.4 Overton Window
4.5 A Proper Sendoff
4.6 Maximum Recreational Depth
4.7 Infinite Game
4.8 Fight Night
4.9 American Champion
4.10 New Year's Day
4.11 Lamster
4.12 Extreme Sandbox

Season Five

5.1 The New Decas
5.2 The Chris Rock Test
5.3 Beg, Bribe, Bully
5.4 Opportunity Zone
5.5 Contract
5.6 The Nordic Model
5.7 The Limitless Sh*t
5.8 Copenhagen
5.9 Implosion
5.10 Liberty
5.11 Victory Smoke
5.12 No Direction Home

Season Six

6.1 Cannonade
6.2 Lyin' Eyes
6.3 STD
6.4 Burn Rate
6.5 Rock of Eye
6.6 Hostis Humani Generis
6.7 Napoleon's Hat
6.8 The Big Ugly
6.9 Hindenburg
6.10 Johnny Favorite
6.11 Succession
6.12 Cold Storage

Season Seven

7.1 Tower of London
7.2 Original Sin
7.3 Winston Dick Energy
7.4 Hurricane Rosie
7.5 The Gulag Archipelago
7.6 The Man in the Olive Drab T-Shirt
7.7 DMV
7.8 The Owl
7.9 Game Theory Optimal
7.10 Enemies List
7.11 Axe Global
7.12 Admirals Fund

Cast

Paul Giamatti (Chuck Rhoades Jr.)
Damian Lewis (Bobby Axelod)
David Costabile (Mike 'Wags' Wagner)
Maggie Siff (Wendy Rhoades)
Condola Rashad (Kate Sacker)
Toby Leonard Moore (Bryan Connerty)
Malin Akerman (Lara Axelrod)
Asia Kate Dillon (Taylor Mason)
Jeffrey DeMunn (Charles Rhoades, Sr.)
Kelly AuCoin ("Dollar" Bill Stearn)
Corey Stoll (Mike Prince)
Daniel Breaker (Scooter Dunbar)
Sakina Jaffrey (Daevisha "Dave" Mahar)
Toney Goins (Phillip Charyn)